Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§361h Relation of college or university to State unaffected; division of appropriations
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 14— - AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 361h
Summary
Keeps the legal relationship between colleges or universities that run State agricultural experiment stations and their state governments. If a State has separate, law-created experiment stations, it may use the law’s benefits for research there. When a State has multiple such institutions, the legislature decides how to divide the funds.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §361h
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Nothing in sections 361a to 361i of this title shall be construed to impair or modify the legal relation existing between any of the colleges or universities under whose direction State agricultural experiment stations have been established and the government of the States in which they are respectively located. States having agricultural experiment stations separate from such colleges or universities and established by law, shall be authorized to apply such benefits to research at stations so established by such States: Provided, That in any State in which more than one such college, university, or agricultural experiment station has been established the appropriations made pursuant to sections 361a to 361i of this title for such State shall be divided between such institutions as the legislature of such State shall direct.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 378 of this title.
Amendments
1955—Act Aug. 11, 1955, amended section generally to provide that the relation between the college and the State is to be unaffected, and to require division of appropriations.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 361h
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73