Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110
§1308–5 Treatment of Multiyear Program Contract Payments
Title 7 › CHAPTER 35 — AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › SUBCHAPTER II — LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part A — Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards › § 1308–5
Summary
When someone inherits land and takes over the prior owner’s Title XII contract, the Secretary of Agriculture may make payments to the new owner even if they already got payments from an earlier Title XII contract. Those payments cannot be more than what the previous owner was entitled to under the contract when they died.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §1308–5
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(a)In general
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event of a transfer of ownership of land (or an ownership interest in land) by way of devise or descent, the Secretary of Agriculture may, if the new owner succeeds to the prior owner’s contract entered into under title XII, make payments to the new owner under such contract without regard to the amount of payments received by the new owner under any contract entered into under title XII executed prior to such devise or descent.
(b)Limitation
Payments made pursuant to this section shall not exceed the amount to which the previous owner was entitled to receive under the terms of the contract at the time of the death of the prior owner.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Title XII, referred to in subsec. (a), is title XII of the Food Security Act of 1985, Pub. L. 99–198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1504, which is classified principally to chapter 58 (§ 3801 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of title XII to the Code, see Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective beginning with 1991 crop of an agricultural commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 101–624, set out as an
Effective Date
of 1990 Amendment note under section 1421 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 1308–5
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Sep 23, 2026
Release point: 119-110