Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2263 Transfer of funds

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2263

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

A USDA appropriation may pay for goods, services, or other costs that both it and another USDA appropriation cover in the same fiscal year, as long as each appropriation's limits are followed. By the close of that fiscal year, those costs must be finally charged to the benefiting appropriation and the paying appropriation must be credited.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2263

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Subject to limitations applicable with respect to each appropriation concerned, each appropriation available to the Department of Agriculture may be charged, at any time during a fiscal year, for the benefit of any other appropriation available to the Department, for the purpose of financing the procurement of materials and services, or financing activities or other costs, for which funds are available both in the financing appropriation so charged and in the appropriation so benefited; except that such expenses so financed shall be charged on a final basis, as of a date not later than the close of such fiscal year, to the appropriations so benefited, with appropriate credit to the financing appropriation.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 579 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.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2263

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73