Skip to content

Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture

§ 2235. Working capital fund established; use of central services by bureaus, etc., of the Department

Statutory text

A working capital fund of $400,000 is established without fiscal year limitation, for the payment of salaries and other expenses necessary to the maintenance and operation of (1) central duplicating, photographic, and tabulating services, (2) a central motor-transport service for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-transport vehicles and other equipment, (3) a central supply service for the purchase, storage, handling, issuance, packing, or shipping of stationery, supplies, equipment, blank forms, and miscellaneous materials, for which stocks thereof, not to exceed $200,000 in value (except for the value of blank forms) at the close of any fiscal year, may be maintained sufficient to meet, in whole or in part, requirements of the bureaus and offices of the Department in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and (4) such other services as the Secretary, with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, determines may be performed more advantageously as central services; said fund to be credited with advances or reimbursements from applicable funds of bureaus, offices, and agencies for which services are performed on the basis of rates which shall include estimated or actual charges for personal services, materials, equipment (including maintenance, repairs, and depreciation) and other expenses: Provided, That such advances shall not be available for any period beyond that provided by the Act appropriating the funds: Provided further, That such central services shall, to the fullest extent practicable, be used to make unnecessary the maintenance of separate like services in the bureaus, offices, and agencies of the department.

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. Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1944

    Pub. L. 78–215 · 57 Stat. 392

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2235

    July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 393

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 393

  2. Pub. L. 89–106 § 7 · 79 Stat. 431

    1. Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 2235

      Pub. L. 89–106 substituted “credited with advances or reimbursements” for “reimbursed”

    2. Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 2235

      Pub. L. 89–106 inserted “That such advances shall not be available for any period beyond that provided by the Act appropriating the funds: Provided further,”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–106 substituted “credited with advances or reimbursements” for “reimbursed” and inserted “That such advances shall not be available for any period beyond that provided by the Act appropriating the funds: Provided further,”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 7. Section 1 of the Act of July 12, 1943 (5 U.S.C. 542–1), is hereby amended by striking out the word “reimbursed” and inserting in lieu therof the words “credited with advances or reimbursements” and inserting after the word “Provided,” the following: “That such advances shall not be available for any period beyond that provided by the Act appropriating the funds: Provided further”.

2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 542–1 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.

Amendments

1965—Pub. L. 89–106 substituted “credited with advances or reimbursements” for “reimbursed” and inserted “That such advances shall not be available for any period beyond that provided by the Act appropriating the funds: Provided further,”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President by section 101 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2. Section 102 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget and offices of Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Directors of Bureau of the Budget as Director, Deputy Director, and Assistant Directors of Office of Management and Budget, respectively. Section 103 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, transferred records, property, personnel and funds of Bureau of the Budget to Office of Management and Budget. See Part I of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

1943–1970 · 3 acts
  1. 1943July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 393
  2. 1965Pub. L. 89–106, § 7, , 79 Stat. 432
  3. 19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. , 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085.
Show as published

(July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 393; Pub. L. 89–106, § 7, , 79 Stat. 432; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. , 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085.)

Parsed from the official OLRC USLM XML in data/usc_all/usc07.xml · release point 119-108 · OLRC build 2026-09-09

USLM identifier /us/usc/t7/s2235