§ 2208. — Expenditure of appropriations; accounting.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC2208]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 55--DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Sec. 2208. Expenditure of appropriations; accounting
The Secretary of Agriculture shall direct and superintend the
expenditure of all money appropriated to the Department and render
accounts thereof.
(R.S. Sec. 3677; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, Secs. 1, 4, 25 Stat. 659.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 3677 derived act May 15, 1882, ch. 72, Sec. 3, 12 Stat.
388.
Section was formerly classified to section 557a of Title 5 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Change of Name
``Secretary of Agriculture'' substituted in text for ``Commissioner
of Agriculture'' pursuant to sections 1 and 4 of act Feb. 9, 1889, which
are classified to section 2202 of this title. See, also, section 2205 of
this title.
Transfer of Functions
Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of
Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18
F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this
title.
Compliance With Buy American Act
Pub. L. 105-86, title VII, Sec. 716, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2106,
provided that:
``Hereafter: (a) Compliance With Buy American Act.--None of the
funds made available in this Act [see Tables for classification] may be
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the
funds the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of
March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c; popularly known as the `Buy American
Act').
``(b) Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--
``(1) Purchase of american-made equipment and products.--In the
case of any equipment or product that may be authorized to be
purchased with financial assistance provided using funds made
available in this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities
receiving the assistance should, in expending the assistance,
purchase only American-made equipment and products.
``(2) Notice to recipients of assistance.--In providing
financial assistance using funds made available in this Act, the
head of each Federal agency shall provide to each recipient of the
assistance a notice describing the statement made in paragraph (1)
by the Congress.
``(c) Prohibition of Contracts With Persons Falsely Labeling
Products as Made in America.--If it has been finally determined by a
court or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label
bearing a `Made in America' inscription, or any inscription with the
same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States
that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to
receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility
procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code
of Federal Regulations.''
Similar provisions were contained in the following prior
appropriation acts:
Pub. L. 104-180, title VII, Sec. 716, Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1598.
Pub. L. 104-37, title VII, Sec. 716, Oct. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 330.
Pub. L. 103-330, title VII, Sec. 719, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat.
2468.
Pub. L. 103-111, title VII, Sec. 727, Oct. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 1080.
