Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§2263 Transfer of Funds

Title 7 › CHAPTER 55 — DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2263

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows, if an appropriation has no limit, one USDA appropriation to temporarily pay for goods, services, activities, or other costs that benefit another USDA appropriation, but only when both appropriations allow those costs. Any such payments can happen during the fiscal year but must be finally charged to the benefiting appropriation by the end of that same fiscal year, and the paying appropriation must be given credit.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §2263

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Subject to limitations applicable with respect to each appropriation concerned, each appropriation available to the Department of Agriculture may be charged, at any time during a fiscal year, for the benefit of any other appropriation available to the Department, for the purpose of financing the procurement of materials and services, or financing activities or other costs, for which funds are available both in the financing appropriation so charged and in the appropriation so benefited; except that such expenses so financed shall be charged on a final basis, as of a date not later than the close of such fiscal year, to the appropriations so benefited, with appropriate credit to the financing appropriation.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 579 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 2263

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102