7 USC § 454 - Advisers to counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; expenses and subsistence

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s454"
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title: "7 USC § 454 - Advisers to counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; expenses and subsistence"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "454"
section_name: "Advisers to counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; expenses and subsistence"
chapter_number: 18
chapter_name: "COOPERATIVE MARKETING"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 4, 44 Stat. 803.)"
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# § 454. Advisers to counsel with Secretary of Agriculture; expenses and subsistence

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, in his discretion, to call advisers to counsel with him and/or his representatives relative to specific problems of cooperative marketing of farm products or any other cooperative activity. Any person, other than an officer, agent, or employee of the United States, called into conference, as provided for in this section, may be paid actual transportation expenses and not to exceed $10 per diem to cover subsistence and other expenses while in conference and en route from and to his home.

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**Source Credit**: (July 2, 1926, ch. 725, § 4, 44 Stat. 803.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer to Secretary of Agriculture

Transfer of Division of Cooperative Marketing “(by whatever name now called)” from Farm Credit Administration to Secretary of Agriculture, by , , see note set out under .

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Farmer Cooperative Service in Department of Agriculture as successor to functions of Cooperative Research and Service Division, Farm Credit Administration, see note set out under .

For prior transfers of functions, see notes set out under .

### Exceptions From Transfer of Functions

Functions of Corporations of Department of Agriculture, boards of directors and officers of such corporations; Advisory Board of Commodity Credit Corporation; and Farm Credit Administration or any agency, officer, or entity of, under, or subject to supervision of said Administration excepted from functions of officers, agencies, and employees transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. , 18 F.R. 3219, , set out as a note under .