§518a — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Agriculture must offer a contract to every tobacco quota holder. If the quota holder agrees to end tobacco marketing quotas and price supports, they get payment in return. To get a contract the person must apply and give the information the Secretary asks for, by the time and in the form the Secretary requires. The Secretary will set a base quota for each holder. For tobacco quoted in pounds the base is the holder’s 2002 basic quota on the farm. For tobacco quoted by acreage the base is the 2002 basic farm quota times the county average yield for 2001–2003. If a farm sale was agreed to by October 22, 2004, the Secretary will fairly split payments or treat the owner on the day before October 22, 2004 as the quota holder when a permanent transfer was not completed. The total payment equals $7.00 times the holder’s base quota in pounds. Payments are paid over ten years. During each fiscal year 2005 through 2014 the holder gets one‑tenth of that total. If a quota holder dies, the payment rights go to the surviving spouse or, if there is no spouse, to the holder’s estate.

Title 7, §518a

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(a)The Secretary shall offer to enter into a contract with each tobacco quota holder under which the tobacco quota holder shall be entitled to receive payments under this section in exchange for the termination of tobacco marketing quotas and related price support under the amendments made by section 611 and 612.11 See References in Text note below. The contract payments shall constitute full and fair consideration for the termination of such tobacco marketing quotas and related price support.

(b)To be eligible to enter into a contract to receive a contract payment under this section, a person shall submit to the Secretary an application containing such information as the Secretary may require to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the person is a tobacco quota holder. The application shall be submitted within such time, in such form, and in such manner as the Secretary may require.

(c)(1)The Secretary shall establish a base quota level applicable to each tobacco quota holder identified under subsection (b).

(2)Subject to adjustment under subsection (d), for each kind of tobacco for which the marketing quota is expressed in pounds, the base quota level for each tobacco quota holder shall be equal to the basic quota for quota tobacco established for the 2002 tobacco marketing year under a marketing quota program established under part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agriculture 22 So in original. Probably should be “Agricultural”. Adjustment Act of 1938 [7 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.] on the farm owned by the tobacco quota holder.

(3)Subject to adjustment under subsection (d), for each kind of tobacco for which there is marketing quota or allotment on an acreage basis, the base quota level for each tobacco quota holder shall be the quantity equal to the product obtained by multiplying—

(A)the basic tobacco farm marketing quota or allotment for the 2002 marketing year established by the Secretary for quota tobacco owned by the tobacco quota holder; by

(B)the average production yield, per acre, for the period covering the 2001, 2002, and 2003 crop years for that kind of tobacco in the county in which the quota tobacco is located.

(d)(1)If there was an agreement for the purchase of all or part of a farm described in subsection (c) as of October 22, 2004, and the parties to the sale are unable to agree to the disposition of eligibility for contract payments, the Secretary, taking into account any transfer of quota that has been agreed to, shall provide for the equitable division of the contract payments among the parties by adjusting the determination of who is the tobacco quota holder with respect to particular pounds or allotment of the quota.

(2)If the Secretary determines that there was in existence, as of the day before October 22, 2004, an agreement for the permanent transfer of quota, but that the transfer was not completed by that date, the Secretary shall consider the tobacco quota holder to be the party to the agreement that, as of that date, was the owner of the farm to which the quota was to be transferred.

(e)(1)The total amount of contract payments to which an eligible tobacco quota holder is entitled under this section, with respect to a kind of tobacco, shall be equal to the product obtained by multiplying—

(A)$7.00 per pound; by

(B)the base quota level of the tobacco quota holder determined under subsection (c) with respect to that kind of tobacco.

(2)During each of fiscal years 2005 through 2014, the Secretary shall make a contract payment under this section to each eligible tobacco quota holder, with respect to a kind of tobacco, in an amount equal to ⅒ of the amount determined under paragraph (1) for the tobacco quota holder for that kind of tobacco.

(f)If a tobacco quota holder who is entitled to contract payments under this section dies and is survived by a spouse or one or more dependents, the right to receive the payments shall transfer to the surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, to the estate of the tobacco quota holder.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 611 and 612, referred to in subsec. (a), are section 611 and 612 of Pub. L. 108–357, which amended section 609, 1282, 1301, 1303, 1361, 1371, 1373, 1375, 1378, 1379, 1428, 1433c–1, and 1441 of this title and section 714c of Title 15, Commerce and Trade, repealed section 511r, 515 to 515k, 625, 1311 to 1314, 1314–1, 1314b, 1314b–1, 1314b–2, 1314c to 1314j, 1315, 1316, 1445, 1445–1, and 1445–2 of this title, and repealed provisions set out as a note under section 1314c of this title. Part I of subtitle B of title III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), was classified to subpart I (§ 1311 et seq.) of part B of subchapter II of chapter 35 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 108–357, title VI, § 611(a), Oct. 22, 2004, 118 Stat. 1522. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1281 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section applicable to the 2005 and subsequent crops of tobacco, see section 643 of Pub. L. 108–357, set out as a note under section 518 of this title.

§518a Contract payments to tobacco quota holders