Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§587 Rules and Regulations; Cooperation with Other Agencies; Compensation of Officers and Employees; Effect on Other Laws

Title 7 › CHAPTER 25 — EXPORT STANDARDS FOR APPLES › § 587

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can create rules, orders, and regulations needed to run this chapter. The Secretary may work with any federal, state, territorial, local, or private agency or person. The Secretary may hire, fire, and set pay for officers and employees within existing law, and spend money on offices, printing, phones, books, travel, reporting services, and other needed items in the District of Columbia and elsewhere when Congress provides funds. Other federal or state laws on the same topics keep working unless they conflict with this chapter.

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Title 7, §587

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The Secretary may make such rules, regulations, and orders as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person, whether operating in one or more jurisdictions; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees not in conflict with existing law, and make such expenditures for rent outside the District of Columbia, printing, binding, telegrams, telephones, law books, books of reference, publications, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses, including reporting services, as shall be necessary to the administration of this chapter in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and as may be appropriated for by Congress. This chapter shall not abrogate nor nullify any other statute, whether State or Federal, dealing with the same subjects as this chapter; but it is intended that all such statutes shall remain in full force and effect except insofar as they are inconsistent herewith or repugnant hereto.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 587

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102