Federal

Title 7 — Agriculture

2,926 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 9039 — Availability of recourse loans for high moisture feed grains and seed cotton
• § 904 — Loans for electrical plants and transmission lines
• § 9040 — Adjustments of loans
• § 905 — Fees for certain loan guarantees
• § 9051 — Definitions
• § 9052 — Calculation of average feed cost and actual dairy production margins
• § 9053 — Dairy margin coverage
• § 9054 — Participation of dairy operations in dairy margin coverage
• § 9055 — Production history of participating dairy operations
• § 9056 — Dairy margin coverage payments
• § 9057 — Premiums for dairy margin coverage
• § 9058 — Effect of failure to pay administrative fees or premiums
• § 9059 — Duration
• § 906 — Funding for administrative expenses
• § 9060 — Administration and enforcement
• § 906a — Use of funds outside the United States or its territories prohibited
• § 907 — Acquisition of property pledged for loans; disposition; sale of pledged property by borrower
• § 9071 — Milk donation program
• § 9071a — Dairy donation program
• § 908 — Limitations on use of assistance
• § 9081 — Supplemental agricultural disaster assistance
• § 909 — Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of officers or employees for violating provision
• § 9091 — Administration generally
• § 9092 — Suspension of permanent price support authority
• § 9093 — Prevention of deceased individuals receiving payments under farm commodity programs
• § 9094 — Assignment of payments
• § 9095 — Tracking of benefits
• § 9096 — Signature authority
• § 9097 — Implementation
• § 91 — Short title
• § 910 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 777 , Apr. 4, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1150
• § 911 — Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and equipment
• § 911a — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(5) , Oct. 13, 1994 , 108 Stat. 3221
• § 912 — Extension of time for repayment of loans
• § 912a — Rescheduling and refinancing of loans
• § 913 — Definitions
• § 914 — Separability
• § 915 — Purchase of financial and credit reports
• § 916 — Criteria for loans
• § 917 — Prohibition on restricting water and waste facility services to electric customers
• § 918 — General prohibitions
• § 918a — Energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities efficiency grants and loans in rural communities with extremely high energy costs
• § 918b — Acquisition of existing systems in rural communities with high energy costs
• § 918c — Rural and remote communities electrification grants
• § 92 — Definitions
• § 9201 — Definitions
• § 9202 — National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
• § 9203 — Evaluation and research plan
• § 9204 — Availability of data and congressional briefings
• § 9205 — Budget and report
• § 9206 — Effect on other authorities
• § 921 — Congressional declaration of policy
• § 921a, 921b — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6602(b)(13) , (14), Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4777
• § 922 — Loans for telephone service
• § 923 — State regulation of telephone service
• § 924 — Definition of telephone service and rural area
• § 925 — Loan feasibility
• § 926 — Certain rural development investments by qualified telephone borrowers not treated as dividends or distributions
• § 927 — General duties and prohibitions
• § 928 — Prompt processing of telephone loans
• § 93 — Establishment of official naval stores standards
• § 930 — Congressional declaration of policy
• § 931 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 931a — Level of loan programs under Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 932 — Liabilities and uses of Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 933 — Moneys in the Rural Electrification and Telephone Revolving Fund
• § 934 — Authorized financial transactions; interim notes; purchase of obligations for resale; sale of notes and certificates; liens
• § 935 — Insured loans; interest rates and lending levels
• § 936 — Guaranteed loans; accommodations and subordination of liens; interest rates; assignability of guaranteed loans and related guarantees
• § 936a — Prepayment of loans
• § 936b — Sale or prepayment of direct or insured loans
• § 936c — Refinancing and prepayment of FFB loans
• § 936d — Eligibility of distribution borrowers for loans, loan guarantees, and lien accommodations
• § 936e — Administrative prohibitions applicable to certain electric borrowers
• § 936f — Substantially underserved trust areas
• § 937 — Loans from other credit sources
• § 938 — Full faith and credit of the United States
• § 939 — Loan terms and conditions
• § 94 — Supplying duplicates of standards; examination, etc., of naval stores and certification thereof
• § 940 — Refinancing of rural development loans
• § 940a — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 780 , Apr. 4, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1151
• § 940b — Use of funds
• § 940c — Cushion of credit payments program
• § 940c–1 — Guarantees for bonds and notes issued for electrification or telephone purposes
• § 940c–2 — Rural development loans and grants
• § 940d — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6601(b) , Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4776
• § 940e — Expansion of 911 access
• § 940f — Extension of period of existing guarantee
• § 940g — Electric loans for renewable energy
• § 940h — Bonding requirements
• § 940i — Cybersecurity and grid security improvements
• § 941 to 950b — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–334, title VI, § 6602(a) , (b)(15), Dec. 20, 2018 , 132 Stat. 4776 , 4777
• § 95 — Prohibition of acts deemed injurious to commerce in naval stores
• § 950aa — Additional powers and duties
• § 950aa–1 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 781(a) , Apr. 4, 1996 , 110 Stat. 1151
• § 950aaa — Purpose
• § 950aaa–1 — Definitions
• § 950aaa–2 — Telemedicine and distance learning services in rural areas
• § 950aaa–3 — Administration
• § 950aaa–4 — Regulations
• § 950aaa–5 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 950bb — Access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas
• § 950bb–1 — Expansion of middle mile infrastructure into rural areas
• § 950bb–2 — Innovative Broadband Advancement Program
• § 950bb–3 — Community Connect Grant Program
• § 950bb–4 — Outdated broadband systems
• § 950bb–5 — Default and deobligation; deferral
• § 950bb–6 — Federal broadband program coordination
• § 950cc — Public notice, assessments, and reporting requirements
• § 950cc–1 — Environmental reviews
• § 950cc–2 — Use of loan proceeds to refinance loans for deployment of broadband service
• § 951 — Collection and publication; facts required; submission of report
• § 952 — Repealed. Pub. L. 85–105, § 2 , July 17, 1957 , 71 Stat. 306
• § 953 — Reports; by whom made; penalties
• § 954 — Grades and standards for classification
• § 955 — Limitation on use of statistical information
• § 956 — Rules and regulations; cooperation with departments, etc.; officers and employees; expenses of administration; authorization of appropriations
• § 957 — Definitions
• § 958 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title I, § 1011(d) , Dec. 21, 1995 , 109 Stat. 709
• § 96 — Punishment for violation of prohibition
• § 97 — Purchase and analysis by Secretary of samples of spirits of turpentine to detect violations; reports to Department of Justice; publication of results of analysis, etc.
• § 98 — Fees and charges for naval stores inspection and related services; establishment, collection, etc.; authorization of appropriations; administrative expenses
• § 99 — Separability
• § 9a — Assessment of money penalties
• § 9b — Rules prohibiting deceptive and other abusive telemarketing acts or practices
• § 9c — Notice of investigations and enforcement actions