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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service

§ 940b. Use of funds

Statutory text

A borrower of an insured or guaranteed electric loan under this chapter may, without restriction or prior approval of the Secretary, invest its own funds or make loans or guarantees, not in excess of 15 percent of its total utility plant.

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. 100–203 title I § 1402 · 101 Stat. 1330

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 940b

    May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title III, § 312, as added Pub. L. 100–203, title I, § 1402, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–21

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title III, § 312, as added Pub. L. 100–203, title I, § 1402, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–21

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 1402. USE OF FUNDS. The Rural Electrification Act of 1936 is amended by inserting after section 311 (7 U.S.C. 940a) the following new section: “SEC. 312. USE OF FUNDS. “A borrower of an insured or guaranteed electric loan under this Act may, without restriction or prior approval of the Administrator, invest its own funds or make loans or guarantees, not in excess of 15 percent of its total utility plant.”.

  2. Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994

    Pub. L. 103–354 title II § 235(a)(13) · 108 Stat. 3178

    Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 940b

    Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (13) except as otherwise provided in this subsection, by striking “Administrator” each place it appears in such Act and inserting “Secretary”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator”.

Credits

1936–1994 · 2 acts
  1. 1936May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title III, § 312, as added Pub. L. 100–203, title I, § 1402, , 101 Stat. 1330–21
  2. 1994amended Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(13), , 108 Stat. 3221.
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(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title III, § 312, as added Pub. L. 100–203, title I, § 1402, , 101 Stat. 1330–21; amended Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(13), , 108 Stat. 3221.)

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