§ 453. Authority and duties of division

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. 1926

   Pub. L. 69–725 § 3 · 44 Stat. 802

   Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 453

   (July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 3, 44 Stat. 802.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 3, 44 Stat. 802.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. (a) The division shall render service to associations of producers of agricultural products, and federations and subsidiaries thereof, engaged in the cooperative marketing of agricultural products, including processing, warehousing, manufacturing, storage, the cooperative purchasing of farm supplies, credit, financing, insurance, and other cooperative activities. (b) The division is authorized— (1) To acquire, analyze, and disseminate economic, statistical, and historical information regarding the progress, organization, and business methods of cooperative associations in the United States and foreign countries. (2) To conduct studies of the economic, legal, financial, social, and other phases of cooperation, and publish the results thereof Such studies shall include the analyses of the organization, operation, financial, and merchandising problems of cooperative associations. (3) To make surveys and analyses if deemed advisable of the accounts and business practices of representative cooperative associations upon their request; to report to the association so surveyed the results thereof ; and with the consent of the association so surveyed to publish summaries of the results of such surveys, together with similar facts, for the guidance of cooperative associations and for the purpose of assisting cooperative associations in developing methods of business and market analysis. (4) To confer and advise with committees or groups of producers, if deemed advisable, that may be desirous of forming a cooperative association and to make an economic survey and analysis of the facts surrounding the production and marketing of the agricultural product or products which the association, if formed, would handle or market. (5) To acquire from all available sources information concerning crop prospects, supply, demand, current receipts, exports, imports, and prices of the agricultural products handled or marketed by cooperative associations, and to employ qualified commodity marketing Employ specialists, etc. specialists to summarize and analyze this information and disseminate the same among cooperative associations and others. (6) To promote the knowledge of cooperative principles and To promote knowledge of cooperative principles, practices, etc. practices and to cooperate, in promoting such knowledge, with educational and marketing agencies, cooperative associations, and others. (7) To make such special studies, in the United States and foreign To make special studies, useful for developing cooperation. countries, and to acquire and disseminate such information and findings as may be useful in the development and practice of cooperation.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision