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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 109A — Control of Wild Animals

§ 8353. Control of nuisance mammals and birds and those constituting reservoirs of zoonotic diseases; exception

Statutory text

On and after , the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, except for urban rodent control, to conduct activities and to enter into agreements with States, local jurisdictions, individuals, and public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions in the control of nuisance mammals and birds and those mammal and bird species that are reservoirs for zoonotic diseases, and to deposit any money collected under any such agreement into the appropriation accounts that incur the costs to be available immediately and to remain available until expended for Animal Damage Control activities.

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. Department of Commerce Appropriation Act, 1988

    Pub. L. 100–202 § 101(k)(tI) · 101 Stat. 1329

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 8353

    (Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(k) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–322, 1329–331.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(k) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–322, 1329–331.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations and funds available to the Department of Commerce shall be available for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by said Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for advance payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary that such payments are in the public interest.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 426c of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(k) [title I], , 101 Stat. 1329–322, 1329–331.)

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