Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§1521 Ineligibility for Catastrophic Risk and Noninsured Assistance Payments
Title 7 › CHAPTER 36 — CROP INSURANCE › SUBCHAPTER I — FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE › § 1521
Summary
If the Secretary finds that someone knowingly used a major plan or trick to get catastrophic risk, additional coverage, or noninsured assistance payments they were not eligible for, or that they evaded or tried to avoid the program’s rules, that person cannot get any of those benefits for the crop year when the scheme was used.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §1521
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If the Secretary determines that a person has knowingly adopted a material scheme or device to obtain catastrophic risk, additional coverage, or noninsured assistance benefits under this subchapter to which the person is not entitled, has evaded this subchapter, or has acted with the purposes of evading this subchapter, the person shall be ineligible to receive all benefits applicable to the crop year for which the scheme or device was adopted.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 made identical
Amendments
to this section. The
Amendments
by Pub. L. 110–234 were repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.
Amendments
2008—Pub. L. 110–246, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter” wherever appearing and struck out at end “The authority provided by this section shall be in addition to, and shall not supplant, the authority provided by section 1506(n) of this title.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2008 AmendmentAmendment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an
Effective Date
note under section 8701 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 13, 1994, and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before Oct. 13, 1994, to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see section 120 of Pub. L. 103–354, set out as an
Effective Date
of 1994 Amendment note under section 1502 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
7 U.S.C. § 1521
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102