§ 499o. — Rules, regulations, and orders; appointment, removal, and compensation of officers and employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations; abrogation of inconsistent statutes.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC499o]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 20A--PERISHABLE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Sec. 499o. Rules, regulations, and orders; appointment, removal,
and compensation of officers and employees; expenditures;
authorization of appropriations; abrogation of inconsistent
statutes
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; 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, lawbooks, 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, from the Perishable Agricultural
Commodities Act fund provided for by section 499c(b) of this title and
any supplements to such fund, and as may be appropriated for by
Congress; and there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be
necessary for such purposes. This chapter shall not abrogate nor nullify
any other statute, whether State or Federal, dealing with the same
subjects of this chapter; but it is intended that all such statutes
shall remain in full force and effect except insofar only as they are
inconsistent herewith or repugnant hereto.
(June 10, 1930, ch. 436, Sec. 15, 46 Stat. 537; June 15, 1950, ch. 254,
Sec. 3, 64 Stat. 218.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 565 of this title.
Amendments
1950--Act June 15, 1950, provided for payment of administrative
costs out of fund and any supplements thereto as well as by
Congressional appropriations.
