Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 18 — Cooperative Marketing
§ 456. Rules and regulations; appointment, removal, and compensation of employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture may make such rules and regulations as may be deemed advisable to carry out the provisions of this chapter and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and may call upon any other Federal department, board, or commission for assistance in carrying out the purposes of this chapter; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees not in conflict with existing law and make such expenditure for rent, outside the District of Columbia, printing, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, books of law, periodicals, newspapers, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as shall be necessary to the administration of this chapter in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, such sums as may be necessary after the fiscal year 1927, for carrying out the purposes of this chapter.
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. 69–725 § 6 · 44 Stat. 802
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 456
(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 6, 44 Stat. 803.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 6, 44 Stat. 803.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 6. The Secretary of Agriculture may make such rules and Secretary to make rules, cooperate with other agencies, etc., in executing provisions of Act. regulations as may be deemed advisable to carry out the provisions of this Act and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and may call upon any other Federal department, board, or com-mission for assistance in carrying out the purposes of this Act; and Employ personnel, make necessary office, etc., expenses in the District and elsewhere. shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees not in conflict, with existing law and make such expenditure for rent, outside the District of Columbia, printing, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, books of law, periodicals, newspapers, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as shall be necessary to the administration of this Act in the District of Columbia and else-where, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any Amount authorized for expenses, 1926,1927, and thereafter. Post, p. 998. moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $225,000 to be available for expenditure during the fiscal years 1926 and 1927, and the appropriation of such additional sums as may be necessary thereafter for carrying out the purposes of this Act is hereby authorized.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer to Secretary of Agriculture
Transfer of Division of Cooperative Marketing “(by whatever name now called)” from Farm Credit Administration to Secretary of Agriculture, by act Aug. 6, 1953, ch. 335, § 9, 67 Stat. 394, see note set out under section 452 of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Farmer Cooperative Service in Department of Agriculture as successor to functions of Cooperative Research and Service Division, Farm Credit Administration, see note set out under section 452 of this title.
For prior transfers of functions, see notes set out under section 452 of this title.
Exceptions From Transfer of Functions
Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. , 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
Credits
(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 6, 44 Stat. 803.)