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Title 7 — Agriculture

Part F · Chapter 35 — Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

§ 1383. Insurance of cotton; reconcentration

Statutory text

(a)

The Commodity Credit Corporation shall place all insurance of every nature taken out by it on cotton, and all renewals, extensions, or continuations of existing insurance, with insurance agents who are bonafide residents of and doing business in the State where the cotton is warehoused: Provided, That such insurance may be secured at a cost not greater than similar insurance offered on said cotton elsewhere.

(b)

Cotton held as security for any loan heretofore or hereafter made or arranged for by the Commodity Credit Corporation shall not hereafter be reconcentrated without the written consent of the producer or borrower.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938

    Pub. L. 75–30 · 52 Stat. 31

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1383

    (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 383, 52 Stat. 67.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 383, 52 Stat. 67.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Administration of program of Commodity Credit Corporation transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 501, eff. , 11 F.R. 7877, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Exceptions From Transfer of Functions

Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, effective , 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

Credits

(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title III, § 383, 52 Stat. 67.)

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