Title 7AgricultureRelease 119-73

§2279i Cooperation with State and other agencies; expenditures

Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2279i

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

When the Department of Agriculture works with state or local governments, farmers’ groups, colleges, business groups, or other local organizations in a state, territory, district, or U.S. possession, any money those outside groups give must go only through the Secretary of Agriculture or through the state, county, or city agencies, or local farm bureaus or similar groups that are cooperating with the Secretary. That rule does not apply to authorized Forest Service activities.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2279i

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In carrying on the activities of the Department of Agriculture involving cooperation with State, county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the State, Territory, district, or insular possession in which such activities are to be carried on, moneys contributed from such outside sources, except in the case of the authorized activities of the Forest Service, shall be paid only through the Secretary of Agriculture or through State, county, or municipal agencies, or local farm bureaus or like organizations, cooperating for the purpose with the Secretary of Agriculture.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 450b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, and to section 563 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. § 2279i

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73