Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102
§454 Advisers to Counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; Expenses and Subsistence
Title 7 › CHAPTER 18 — COOPERATIVE MARKETING › § 454
Summary
The Secretary of Agriculture can ask advisers to meet with him or his representatives about specific cooperative marketing problems or other cooperative activities. People who are not federal officers, agents, or employees and who are asked to attend can be paid their actual travel costs and up to $10 per day for food and other small expenses while at the meeting and while traveling to and from home.
Full Legal Text
Title 7, §454
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The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to call advisers to counsel with him and/or his representatives relative to specific problems of cooperative marketing of farm products or any other cooperative activity. Any person, other than an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, called into conference, as provided for in this section, may be paid actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem to cover subsistence and other expenses while in conference and en route from and to his home.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer to Secretary of Agriculture Transfer of Division of Cooperative Marketing “(by whatever name now called)” from Farm Credit Administration to Secretary of Agriculture, by act Aug. 6, 1953, ch. 335, § 9, 67 Stat. 394, see note set out under section 452 of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Farmer Cooperative Service in Department of Agriculture as successor to functions of Cooperative Research and Service Division, Farm Credit Administration, see note set out under section 452 of this title. For prior transfers of functions, see notes set out under section 452 of this title. Exceptions From
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.
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Citation
7 U.S.C. § 454
Title 7, Agriculture
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102