Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture
§ 2273. Local search and rescue operations
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture may assist, through the use of Soil Conservation Service personnel, vehicles, communication equipment, and other equipment or materials available to the Secretary, in local search and rescue operations when requested by responsible local public authorities. Such assistance may be provided in emergencies caused by tornadoes, fires, floods, snowstorms, earthquakes, and similar disasters.
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.
Agriculture and Food Act of 1981
Pub. L. 97–98 title XV § 1550 · 95 Stat. 1213
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2273
(Pub. L. 97–98, title XV, § 1550, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1344.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–98, title XV, § 1550, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1344.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 1550. local search and rescue operations The Secretary of Agriculture may assist, through the use of Soil Conservation Service personnel, vehicles, communication equipment, and other equipment or materials available to the Secretary, in local search and rescue operations when requested by responsible local public authorities. Such assistance may be provided in emergencies caused by tornadoes, fires, floods, snowstorms, earthquakes, and similar disasters.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.