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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture

§ 2256. Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government departments and agencies; reimbursement

Statutory text

The head of any department or independent establishment of the Government requiring inspections, analyses, and tests of food and other products, within the scope of the functions of the Department of Agriculture and which that Department is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary, transfer to the Department for direct expenditure such sums as may be necessary for the performance of such work.

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. Pub. L. 78–412 · 58 Stat. 734

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2256

    (Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, § 702(a), 58 Stat. 741.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, § 702(a), 58 Stat. 741.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.

Section was formerly classified to section 571 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

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, § 702(a), 58 Stat. 741.)

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