Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2219a. Overtime and holiday pay
Statutory text
In general
The Secretary of Agriculture may—
pay employees of the Department of Agriculture employed in an establishment subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) for all overtime and holiday work performed at the establishment at rates determined by the Secretary, subject to applicable law relating to minimum wages and maximum hours; and
accept from the establishment reimbursement for any sums paid by the Secretary for the overtime and holiday work, at rates determined under paragraph (1).
Availability
Sums received by the Secretary under this section shall remain available until expended without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation, to carry out subsection (a).
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. 107–171 title X § 10703(a) · 116 Stat. 134
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2219a
(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10703(a), (b), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 517.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10703(a), (b), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 517.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) In General.— The Secretary of Agriculture may— (1) pay employees of the Department of Agriculture employed in an establishment subject to the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) or the Poultry Products Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 451 et seq.) for all overtime and holiday work performed at the establishment at rates determined by the Secretary, subject to applicable law relating to minimum wages and maximum hours; and (2) accept from the establishment reimbursement for any sums paid by the Secretary for the overtime and holiday work, at rates determined under paragraph (1).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The Federal Meat Inspection Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is titles I to V of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, as added Pub. L. 90–201, , 81 Stat. 584, and Pub. L. 110–246, title XI, § 11015(a), , 122 Stat. 2124, which are classified generally to subchapters I to IV–A (§ 601 et seq.) of chapter 12 of Title 21, Food and Drugs. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 601 of Title 21 and Tables.
The Poultry Products Inspection Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), is Pub. L. 85–172, , 71 Stat. 441, which is classified generally to chapter 10 (§ 451 et seq.) of Title 21, Food and Drugs. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 451 of Title 21 and Tables.
Credits
(Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10703(a), (b), , 116 Stat. 517.)