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Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73not60

§1392 Administrative Expenses; Posting Names and Compensation of Local Employees

Title 7 › Chapter 35— AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938 › Subchapter II— LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES › Part F— Miscellaneous Provisions and Appropriations › Subpart ii— appropriations and administrative expenses › § 1392

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must pay whatever costs are needed to run the programs under this law and certain parts of Title 16. That can include things like staff pay, office rent, travel, supplies, books and periodicals, and putting on displays or exhibits (even at fairs). If Agricultural Adjustment Administration staff or facilities are used, the Treasury Secretary, when asked, must set up one or more separate accounts and transfer from the available funds the share estimated to be needed. Each year, spending for administration in the District of Columbia (including regional offices) and in the States (not counting county or local committee costs) cannot be more than 3% of the total money available for this subchapter and chapter 3B, starting with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, unless another law or appropriation says otherwise. For administering section 612c and the listed sections 601, 602, 608a–d, 610, 612, 614, 624, and 671–673, that limit is 4% starting with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942. If any county or local committee administrative costs are taken out of chapter 3B payments, parity payments, or loans in any fiscal year starting with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, each farmer getting benefits must be told the dollar amount or percentage taken. The names, addresses, and pay of members and employees of any county or local committee must be posted once a year in a noticeable place where they work.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §1392

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(a)The Secretary is authorized and directed to make such expenditures as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and section 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment; lawbooks, books of reference, directories, periodicals, and newspapers; and the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at community, county, State, interstate, and international fairs within the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed upon the request of the Secretary to establish one or more separate appropriation accounts into which there shall be transferred from the respective funds available for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16, in connection with which personnel or other facilities of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are utilized, proportionate amounts estimated by the Secretary to be required by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for administrative expenses in carrying out or cooperating in carrying out any of the provisions of this chapter and chapter 3B of title 16.
(b)In the administration of this subchapter and section 590g, 590h, 590i, and 590j to 590q of title 16, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 3 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of this subchapter and chapter 3B of title 16, unless otherwise provided by appropriation or other law. In the administration of section 612c of this title, and section 601, 602, 608a, 608b, 608c, 608d, 610, 612, 614, 624, and 671 to 673 of this title, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 4 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of said sections, unless otherwise provided by appropriation or other law. In the event any administrative expenses of any county or local committee are deducted in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, from chapter 3B of title 16 payments, parity payments, or loans, each farmer receiving benefits under such provisions shall be apprised of the amount or percentage deducted from such benefit payment or loan on account of such administrative expenses. The names and addresses of the members and employees of any county or local committee, and the amount of such compensation received by each of them, shall be posted annually in a conspicuous place in the area within which they are employed.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Chapter 3B [§ 590a et seq.] of title 16, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.

Amendments

1956—Subsec. (b). Act Aug. 3, 1956, changed the period to a comma at end of first and second sentences and inserted “unless otherwise provided by appropriation or other law”. 1942—Subsecs. (a), (b). Act Jan. 31, 1942, among other changes, inserted reference to sections of title 16, after “this chapter” and “this subchapter”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1942 AmendmentAct Jan. 31, 1942, provided that the

Amendments

made by that act are effective for the fiscal year 1942 and subsequent fiscal years. Expenses of an Advisory Committee on Soil and Water ConservationAct Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 934, 70 Stat. 989, provided: “That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay expenses of an Advisory Committee on Soil and Water Conservation and related matters, but such Committee members (other than ex officio members) shall not be deemed to be employees of the United States and shall not receive compensation.” Termination of Advisory CommitteesAdvisory committees in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a committee established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such committee is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a committee established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. See section 1013 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Agricultural Adjustment Administration consolidated into Production and Marketing Administration by 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, eff. July 4, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See note set out under section 610 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

7 U.S.C. § 1392

Title 7 — Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60