Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
§ 915. Purchase of financial and credit reports
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to purchase such financial and credit reports as may be necessary to carry out the Secretary’s authorized work: Provided, That purchases under this authority shall not be made unless provision is made therefor in the applicable appropriation and the cost thereof is not in excess of limitations prescribed therein.
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. 78–412 · 58 Stat. 734
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 915
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title V, § 505, 58 Stat. 740
Source evidence
Code source credit
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title V, § 505, 58 Stat. 740Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–354 title II § 235(b)(2) · 108 Stat. 3178
Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 915
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary of Agriculture” for “Rural Electrification Administration”
Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 915
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “the Secretary’s” for “its”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary of Agriculture” for “Rural Electrification Administration” and “the Secretary’s” for “its”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) Section 505 of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 915) is amended— (A) by striking “Rural Electrification Administration” and inserting “Secretary of Agriculture”; and (B) by striking “its” and inserting “the Secretary’s”.
2 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, and not as part of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 which constitutes this chapter.
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary of Agriculture” for “Rural Electrification Administration” and “the Secretary’s” for “its”.
Credits
1944–1994 · 2 acts
- 1944Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title V, § 505, 58 Stat. 740
- 1994Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(b)(2), , 108 Stat. 3221.
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(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title V, § 505, 58 Stat. 740; Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(b)(2), , 108 Stat. 3221.)