Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2264. National Agricultural Library; acceptance of gifts, bequests, or devises; conditional gifts
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to accept, receive, hold, and administer on behalf of the United States gifts, bequests, or devises of real and personal property made unconditionally for the benefit of the National Agricultural Library or for the carrying out of any of its functions. Conditional gifts may be accepted and used in accordance with their provisions provided that no gift may be accepted which is conditioned on any expenditure not to be met therefrom or from the income thereof unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress.
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. 91–591 § 2 · 84 Stat. 1588
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2264
(Pub. L. 91–591, § 2, Dec. 28, 1970, 84 Stat. 1588.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–591, § 2, Dec. 28, 1970, 84 Stat. 1588.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to accept, receive, hold, and administer on behalf of the United States gifts, bequests, or devises of real and personal property made unconditionally for the benefit of the National Agricultural Library or for the carrying out of any of its functions. Conditional gifts may be accepted and used in accordance with their provisions provided that no gift may be accepted which is conditioned on any expenditure not to be met therefrom or from the income thereof unless such expenditure has been approved by Act of Congress.
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