US CHAPTER 55 — DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
- § 2201. — Establishment of Department.
- § 2202. — Executive Department; Secretary.
- § 2203. — Seal.
- § 2204. — General duties of Secretary; advisory functions; research and development.
- § 2204a. — Rural development; utilization of nonFederal offices; location of field units; interchange of personnel and facilities.
- § 2204b. — Rural development policy.
- § 2204b-1. — Rural development.
- § 2204c. — Water management for rural areas.
- § 2204d. — Encouragement of private contracting.
- § 2204e. — Office of Risk Assessment and CostBenefit Analysis.
- § 2204f. — Fund for Rural America.
- § 2204g. — Authority of Secretary of Agriculture to conduct census of agriculture.
- § 2205. — Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary.
- § 2206. — Custody of property and records.
- § 2206a. — Conveyance of excess Federal personal property.
- § 2207. — Reports.
- § 2207a. — Reports to Congress on obligation and expenditure.
- § 2208. — Expenditure of appropriations; accounting.
- § 2209. — Additional statement of expenditures.
- § 2209a. — Advances to chiefs of field parties.
- § 2209b. — Availability of appropriations.
- § 2209c. — Use of funds for oneyear contracts to be performed in two fiscal years.
- § 2209d. — Statement of percentage and dollar amount of Federal funding.
- § 2209e. — Prohibition on payments to parties involved with prohibited drugproducing plants.
- § 2209f. — Restriction on commodity purchase program payments.
- § 2210. — Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; appointment.
- § 2211. — Powers and duties of Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
- § 2211a to 2213. — Omitted or Repealed.
- § 2214. — General Counsel; appointment.
- § 2215. — Chief clerk.
- § 2216. — Repealed.
- § 2217. — Oaths, affirmations, and affidavits taken by officers, agents, or employees of Department; use and effect.
- § 2218. — Fee for administering or taking oaths, affirmations, and affidavits.
- § 2219. — Salaries; how paid.
- § 2220. — Certain officials and employees of Department and others not subject to restriction on payment of compensation to Government officials and employees.
- § 2221. — Details of persons from or to office of Secretary.
- § 2222. — Details of law clerks.
- § 2223. — Details of employees from and to library and bureaus and offices.
- § 2224. — Details of employees from and to Division of Accounts and Disbursements and bureaus and offices; traveling expenses.
- § 2224a. — Utilization of employees of agencies for parttime and intermittent assistance to other agencies; exclusion of overtime resulting from natural disasters from staff year ceilings.
- § 2225. — Employment of temporary personnel.
- § 2225a. — Contracts for consulting services.
- § 2225b. — Personal service contracts for veterinarians.
- § 2225c. — Employment contracts for services abroad.
- § 2226. — Employment of persons for forest fire fighting, pest control, and handling of animals.
- § 2227. — Traveling expenses.
- § 2228. — Emergency subsistence for employees.
- § 2229. — Travel and per diem expenses of temporary or seasonal employees.
- § 2230. — Employees in Alaska; subsistence, equipment, and supplies.
- § 2231. — Official expenses of employees stationed abroad.
- § 2231a. — Reimbursement of employees for costs of State licenses and certification fees.
- § 2231b. — First amendment rights of employees of the United States Department of Agriculture.
- § 2232. — Stenographic reporting service.
- § 2233. — Funds available for expenses of advisory committees.
- § 2234. — Purchases for bureaus from appropriations for contingent expenses.
- § 2235. — Working capital fund established; use of central services by bureaus, etc., of the Department.
- § 2236. — Working capital fund for Agricultural Research Center; establishment.
- § 2237. — Use of field work funds for employment of men with equipment, etc.
- § 2238. — Use of field work funds for purchase of arms and ammunition.
- § 2239. — Funds for printing, binding, and scientific and technical article reprint purchases.
- § 2240. — Reimbursement of appropriation for salaries and compensation of employees in mechanical shops.
- § 2241. — Sale or exchange of animals or animal products.
- § 2242. — Repealed.
- § 2242a. — User fees for reports, publications, and software.
- § 2242b. — Translation of publications into foreign languages.
- § 2243. — Sale of photographic prints and maps.
- § 2244. — Repealed.
- § 2245. — Sale of prints and lantern slides.
- § 2246. — Loan, rental, or sale of films.
- § 2247. — Sale of samples of pure sugars.
- § 2248. — Statistics relating to turpentine and rosin.
- § 2249. — Amount and character of cooperation.
- § 2250. — Construction and repair of buildings and public improvements.
- § 2250a. — Erection of buildings and other structures on nonFederal lands; duration of use of such lands; removal of structures after termination of use; availability of funds for expenses of acquiring longterm leases or other agreements.
- § 2251. — Reimbursement of Production and Marketing Administration appropriations for expenses of maintaining registers of indebtedness and making setoffs.
- § 2252. — Reimbursement of Production and Marketing Administration appropriations for costs of procuring agricultural commodities for nongovernmental agencies or foreign governments.
- § 2253. — Adjustment by Secretary of titles to lands acquired by Government and subject to his control.
- § 2254. — Operation, maintenance and purchase of aircraft by Agricultural Research Service; construction and repair of buildings.
- § 2255. — Membership in International Wheat Advisory Committee, International Sugar Council, etc.
- § 2255a. — Financial assistance to national and international conferences.
- § 2256. — Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government departments and agencies; reimbursement.
- § 2257. — Interchangeability of funds for miscellaneous expenses and general expenses.
- § 2258. — Purchase of newspapers.
- § 2259. — Marketinspection certificates as prima facie evidence.
- § 2260. — Inspection or quarantine services involving overtime furnished upon a reimbursable basis.
- § 2260a. — Reimbursable agreements.
- § 2261. — Credit of donations and proceeds from exhibitions to appropriations concerned with foreign market development programs.
- § 2262. — Employee liability insurance on motor vehicles in foreign countries.
- § 2262a. — Overseas tort claims.
- § 2263. — Transfer of funds.
- § 2264. — National Agricultural Library; acceptance of gifts, bequests, or devises; conditional gifts.
- § 2265. — Deposit of money accepted for benefit of National Agricultural Library; disbursement.
- § 2266. — Congressional reaffirmation of policy to foster and encourage family farms.
- § 2267. — Repealed.
- § 2268. — Public lands; relinquishment.
- § 2269. — Gifts of property; acceptance and administration by Secretary of Agriculture; Federal tax law consideration; separate fund in Treasury; regulations.
- § 2270. — Authority of Office of Inspector General.
- § 2270a. — Office of Inspector General; transfer of forfeiture funds for law enforcement activities.
- § 2271. — Marketing education programs for small and medium size family farm operations.
- § 2271a. — Advanced marketing training for farmers and ranchers.
- § 2272. — Volunteers for Department of Agriculture programs.
- § 2272a. — Funds for incidental expenses and promotional items relating to volunteers.
- § 2273. — Local search and rescue operations.
- § 2274. — Firearm authority of employees engaged in animal quarantine enforcement.
- § 2275. — Repealed.
- § 2276. — Confidentiality of information.
- § 2277. — Contracts by Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for services to be performed abroad.
- § 2278. — Consistency with international obligations of United States.
- § 2279. — Outreach and assistance for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
- § 2279a. — Fair and equitable treatment of socially disadvantaged producers.
- § 2279b. — Operation of Graduate School of Department of Agriculture as nonappropriated fund instrumentality.
- § 2279c. — Student internship programs.
- § 2279d. — Compensatory damages in claims under Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
- § 2279e. — Civil penalty.
- § 2279f. — Subpoena authority.