7 USC § 1471h - Ineligibility

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1471h"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 1471h - Ineligibility"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "1471h"
section_name: "Ineligibility"
chapter_number: 35
chapter_name: "PRICE SUPPORT OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK FEED ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1988"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 610, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 931.)"
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# § 1471h. Ineligibility

**(a)** Any person that has qualifying gross revenues in excess of $2,500,000 annually, as determined by the Secretary, shall not be eligible to receive any livestock emergency benefits under this subchapter.

**(b)** For purposes of this section, the term “qualifying gross revenue” means—

**(1)** if a majority of the person’s annual income is received from farming and ranching operations, the gross revenue from the person’s farming and ranching operations; and

**(2)** if less than a majority of the person’s annual income is received from farming and ranching operations, the person’s gross revenue from all sources.

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**Source Credit**: (Oct. 31, 1949, ch. 792, title VI, § 610, as added Pub. L. 100–387, title I, § 101(a), Aug. 11, 1988, 102 Stat. 931.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 15 days after , see , set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 1988 Amendment note under .

### Inapplicability of Section

Section inapplicable to 2014 through 2018 crops of covered commodities, cotton, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2008 through 2012 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 2002 through 2007 crops of covered commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , through , see .

Section inapplicable to 1996 through 2002 crops of loan commodities, peanuts, and sugar and inapplicable to milk during period beginning , and ending , see .