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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 102 — Emergency Food Assistance

§ 7511. Prohibition against certain State charges

Statutory text

Whenever a commodity is made available without charge or credit under any nutrition program administered by the Secretary for distribution within the States to eligible recipient agencies, the State may not charge recipient agencies any amount that is in excess of the State’s direct costs of storing and transporting the commodities to recipient agencies minus any amount the Secretary provides the State for the costs of storing and transporting such commodities.

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. 98–8 title II § 208 · 97 Stat. 13

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 7511

    (Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 208, Mar. 24, 1983, 97 Stat. 36.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 208, Mar. 24, 1983, 97 Stat. 36.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 208. Whenever a commodity is made available without 7 USC 612c note. charge or credit under any nutrition program administered by the Secretary for distribution within the States to eligible recipient agencies, the State may not charge recipient agencies any amount that is in excess of the State’s direct costs of storing and transporting the commodities to recipient agencies minus any amount the Secretary provides the State for the costs of storing and transporting such commodities.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–8, title II, § 208, , 97 Stat. 36.)

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