§713c — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture can send money to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, which will keep operating as a U.S. agency under the Secretary until June 30, 1945. The money can be used, without following some usual public‑spending rules, to buy, trade, process, move, store, inspect, distribute, or get rid of farm products and to pay related costs like commissions, rent, printing, and staff. Those funds can also be used to buy agricultural goods that may be given away for relief or used in nonprofit summer camps for children. Staff hires must follow the rules used by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.

Title 15, §713c

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In carrying out the provisions of clause (2) of section 612c of title 7, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, which Corporation is continued, until June 30, 1945, as an agency of the United States under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, such funds, appropriated by said section, as may be necessary for the purpose of effectuating clause (2) of said section: Provided, That such transferred funds, together with other funds of the Corporation, may be used for purchasing, exchanging, processing, distributing, disposing, transporting, storing, and handling of agricultural commodities and products thereof and inspection costs, commissions, and other incidental costs and expenses, without regard to the provisions of existing law governing the expenditure of public funds and for administrative expenses, including rent, printing and binding, and the employment of persons and means, in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, such employment of persons to be in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to the employment of persons by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. In carrying out clause (2) of said section, the funds appropriated by said section may be used for the purchase, without regard to the provisions of existing law governing the expenditure of public funds, of agricultural commodities and products thereof, and such commodities, as well as agricultural commodities and products thereof purchased under the preceding paragraph of this section, may be donated for relief purposes and for use in nonprofit summer camps for children.

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1958—Pub. L. 85–483 permitted donation of commodities for use in nonprofit summer camps for children. 1942—Act

June 27, 1942, provided for the continuance of the Corporation from

June 30, 1942, to

June 30, 1945. It read as follows: “The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation is hereby continued as an agency of the United States, under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture, until

June 30, 1945.” 1938—Act Feb. 16, 1938, substituted “until

June 30, 1942” for “until

June 30, 1939”.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, see

Transfer of Functions

note set out under section 712a of this title.

§713c Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation; continuance of existence; purchase and distribution of surplus agricultural commodities

Summary

Title 15, §713c

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

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Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of Functions

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