Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2224 Details of employees from and to Division of Accounts and Disbursements and bureaus and offices; traveling expenses

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2224

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture may assign Division of Accounts and Disbursements accounting staff to work in any bureau or office, inside or outside Washington, D.C., and bureau staff may be assigned to the Division. Travel expenses for those assignments are paid from the bureau's or office's budget.

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Title 7, §2224

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Employees of the Division of Accounts and Disbursements may be detailed by the Secretary of Agriculture for accounting and disbursing work in any of the bureaus and offices of the department for duty in or out of the city of Washington, and employees of the bureaus and offices of the department may also be detailed to the Division of Accounts and Disbursements for duty in or out of the city of Washington, traveling expenses of employees so detailed to be paid from the appropriation of the bureau or office in connection with which such travel is performed.

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References in Text

The Division of Accounts and Disbursements, referred to in text, was a division of the Department of Agriculture at the time of enactment of this section. The activities of that Division are now performed by the various departmental offices in the Department of Agriculture under the Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration. In a similar consolidation of operations, but one carried out in a different department, the Division of Disbursement and certain other offices and agencies and their functions in the Treasury Department were consolidated into the Fiscal Service of the Treasury Department by 1940 Reorg. Plan No. III, § 1(a), eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1231, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 533 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.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

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7 U.S.C. § 2224

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73