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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 43 — Foreign Market Development

§ 1765h. Representation allowance

Statutory text

Any Agricultural Trade Officer and the senior representative of the Secretary of Agriculture assigned to a nation under subchapter I of this chapter may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, be entitled to receive a representation allowance in an amount determined by considering (1) the extent to which such Agricultural Trade Officer or senior representative can effectively use such funds to further the purposes of this chapter, (2) travel and entertainment expenses customary in the private trade for persons of comparable rank and salary, and (3) customs and practices in the nation where such Agricultural Trade Officer or senior representative is assigned.

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 Trade Act of 1978

    Pub. L. 95–501 title IV § 401(2) · 92 Stat. 1685

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1765h

    (Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 401(2), Oct. 21, 1978, 92 Stat. 1690.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 401(2), Oct. 21, 1978, 92 Stat. 1690.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) redesignating section 606 as section 606A and inserting Supra immediately after new section 605G, as added by this section, the subtitle designation and new section 606 as follows: “Subtitle C— Representation Allowances, Regulations, General Provisions, and Authorization for Appropriations “Sec. 606. Any Agricultural Trade Officer and the senior representative of the Secretary of Agriculture assigned to a nation under subtitle A of this title may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture, be entitled to receive a representation allowance in an amount determined by considering (1) the extent to which such Agricultural Trade Officer or senior representative can effectively use such funds to further the purposes of this title, (2) travel and entertainment expenses customary in the private trade for persons of comparable rank and salary, and (3) customs and practices in the nation where such Agricultural Trade Officer or senior representative is assigned.”;

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 401(2), , 92 Stat. 1690.)

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