Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§2220 Certain officials and employees of Department and others not subject to restriction on payment of compensation to Government officials and employees
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2220
Summary
Department of Agriculture officials and employees who take part in certain cooperative programs and are paid from contributed funds, and the people or groups who give those funds, are exempt from the federal ban on officials receiving outside pay. The same exemption applies to Forest Service cooperative activities and their contributors.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §2220
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The officials and the employees of the Department of Agriculture engaged in the activities described in section 2279i of this title and paid in whole or in part out of funds contributed as provided therein, and the persons, corporations, or associations making contributions as therein provided, shall not be subject to the provisions of section 209 of title 18; nor shall any official or employee engaged in the cooperative activities of the Forest Service, or the persons, corporations, or associations contributing to such activities be subject to such section.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification “Section 209 of title 18” substituted in text for “section 1914 of title 18” on authority of section 2 of Pub. L. 87–849, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1126, which repealed section 1914 and supplanted it with section 209, and which provided that exemptions from section 1914 shall be deemed exemptions from section 209. For further details, see Exemptions note set out under section 203 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. Section was formerly classified to section 67 and 564 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. Thereafter, section was classified to section 450h of this title prior to its transfer to this section.
Amendments
1954—Act Sept. 3, 1954, substituted “section 1914 of title 18” for reference to proviso in Act of March 3, 1917 (5 U.S.C. 66).
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
7 U.S.C. § 2220
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73