Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2214. General Counsel; appointment
Statutory text
The President shall appoint on and after , by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture.
The existing office of General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture shall be abolished effective upon the appointment and qualification of the General Counsel provided for by subsection (a) or , whichever is earlier.
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.
Pub. L. 84–804 · 70 Stat. 656
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2214
(July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is based on that part of section 301 of act , relating to the General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. That part of such section 301 relating to the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services], is classified to section 3504 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. That part of such section 301 relating to the General Counsel of the Post Office Department was enacted as section 307 of Title 39 by Pub. L. 86–682, , 74 Stat. 580. Such provisions were eliminated from Title 39 by the Postal Reorganization Act, Pub. L. 91–375, , 84 Stat. 719.
Section was formerly classified to section 518a of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.
Credits
(July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742.)