§ 2256. — Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government departments and agencies; reimbursement.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC2256]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 55--DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Sec. 2256. Inspections, analyses, and tests for other Government
departments and agencies; reimbursement
The head of any department or independent establishment of the
Government requiring inspections, analyses, and tests of food and other
products, within the scope of the functions of the Department of
Agriculture and which that Department is unable to perform within the
limits of its appropriations, may, with the approval of the Secretary,
transfer to the Department for direct expenditure such sums as may be
necessary for the performance of such work.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, Sec. 702(a), 58 Stat. 741.)
Codification
This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture
Organic Act of 1944.
Section was formerly classified to section 571 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.
