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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.

  1. 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. 740

  2. Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–354 title II § 235(b)(2) · 108 Stat. 3178

    1. Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 915

      Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary of Agriculture” for “Rural Electrification Administration”

    2. 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
  1. 1944Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title V, § 505, 58 Stat. 740
  2. 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.)

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