7 USC § 1521 - Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments

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identifier: "/us/usc/t7/s1521"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "7 USC § 1521 - Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments"
title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
section_number: "1521"
section_name: "Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments"
chapter_number: 36
chapter_name: "CROP INSURANCE"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 521, as added Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 114, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3203; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1371, 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2133, 2167.)"
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# § 1521. Ineligibility for catastrophic risk and noninsured assistance payments

If the Secretary determines that a person has knowingly adopted a material scheme or device to obtain catastrophic risk, additional coverage, or noninsured assistance benefits under this subchapter to which the person is not entitled, has evaded this subchapter, or has acted with the purposes of evading this subchapter, the person shall be ineligible to receive all benefits applicable to the crop year for which the scheme or device was adopted.

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**Source Credit**: (Feb. 16, 1938, ch. 30, title V, § 521, as added Pub. L. 103–354, title I, § 114, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3203; amended Pub. L. 110–234, title XII, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1371, 1405; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XII, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2133, 2167.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

and  made identical amendments to this section. The amendments by  were repealed by .

### Amendments

2008—, §§ 12002(b)(2), 12033(c)(2)(B), substituted “this subchapter” for “this chapter” wherever appearing and struck out at end “The authority provided by this section shall be in addition to, and shall not supplant, the authority provided by .”

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2008 Amendment

Amendment of this section and repeal of  by  effective , the date of enactment of , see , set out as an Effective Date note under .

### Effective Date

Section effective , and applicable to provision of crop insurance under Federal Crop Insurance Act ( et seq.) beginning with 1995 crop year, with such Act, as in effect on the day before , to continue to apply with respect to 1994 crop year, see , set out as an Effective Date of 1994 Amendment note under .