Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-110

§2009cc–6 Fees

Title 7 › CHAPTER 50 — AGRICULTURAL CREDIT › SUBCHAPTER VIII — RURAL BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM › § 2009cc–6

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may charge fees for any guarantee or grant under this part, but the fees must be proportionally equal for each rural business investment company. However, the Secretary must not collect a fee for a guarantee of a trust certificate under section 2009cc–5. An agent of the Secretary may collect fees for the tasks listed in section 2009cc–5(e)(2), and those fees must also be proportionally equal. The Secretary may set fees for people applying for a license to operate as a rural business investment company. Those license fees go into the Secretary’s salaries and expenses account, can be appropriated as the Secretary decides, and can be set at amounts the Secretary considers appropriate. If a license was approved before July 1, 2007, the Secretary must not collect any fees due on or after the date this paragraph was enacted.

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Title 7, §2009cc–6

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(a)In general
The Secretary may charge such fees as the Secretary considers appropriate, so long as those fees are proportionally equal for each rural business investment company, with respect to any guarantee or grant issued under this subchapter.
(b)Trust certificate
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall not collect a fee for any guarantee of a trust certificate under section 2009cc–5 of this title, except that any agent of the Secretary may collect such fees as the Secretary considers appropriate, so long as those fees are proportionally equal for each rural business investment company, for the functions described in section 2009cc–5(e)(2) of this title.
(c)License
(1)In general
Except as provided in paragraph (3), the Secretary may prescribe fees to be paid by each applicant for a license to operate as a rural business investment company under this subchapter.
(2)Use of amounts
Fees collected under this subsection
(A)
(B)are authorized to be appropriated as the Secretary considers appropriate; and
(C)shall be in such amounts as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(3)Prohibition on collection of certain fees
In the case of a license described in paragraph (1) that was approved before July 1, 2007, the Secretary shall not collect any fees due on or after the date of enactment of this paragraph.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of enactment of this paragraph, referred to in subsec. (c)(3), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–246, which was approved June 18, 2008. 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

2018—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 6426(d)(1), substituted “such fees as the Secretary considers appropriate, so long as those fees are proportionally equal for each rural business investment company,” for “a fee that does not exceed $500”. Subsec. (c)(2)(B). Pub. L. 115–334, § 6426(d)(2)(A), substituted “as the Secretary considers appropriate” for “solely to cover the costs of licensing examinations”. Subsec. (c)(2)(C). Pub. L. 115–334, § 6426(d)(2)(B), added subpar. (C) and struck out former subpar. (C) which read as follows: “shall not exceed $500 for any fee collected under this subsection.” 2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6027(b)(1), substituted “a fee that does not exceed $500” for “such fees as the Secretary considers appropriate”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6027(b)(2), substituted “that does not exceed $500” for “approved by the Secretary”. Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6027(b)(3)(A), substituted “Except as provided in paragraph (3), the” for “The”. Subsec. (c)(2)(C). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6027(b)(3)(B), added subpar. (C). Subsec. (c)(3). Pub. L. 110–246, § 6027(b)(3)(C), added par. (3).

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.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2009cc–6

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Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110