Payment of cost of meat-inspection service; exception
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/us/usc/t21/s695
Title
21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter
CH12
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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The cost of inspection rendered on and after July 1, 1948, under the requirements of laws relating to Federal inspection of meat and meat food products shall be borne by the United States except the cost of overtime and holiday pay paid pursuant to section 2219a of title 7.
(June 5, 1948, ch. 423, 62 Stat. 344; Pub. L. 107–171, title X, § 10703(c)(2), May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 517.)
Editorial Notes
References in TextSection 2219a of title 7, referred to in text, was in the original “section 10703 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002”, meaning section 10703 of Pub. L. 107–171, which enacted section 2219a of Title 7, Agriculture, amended this section, section 468 of this title, and section 5549 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, and repealed section 394 of Title 7.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 98 of this title.
Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Meat Inspection Act which is classified to subchapters I to IV–A of this chapter.
Amendments2002—Pub. L. 107–171 substituted “overtime and holiday pay paid pursuant to section 2219a of title 7.” for “overtime pursuant to section 394 of title 7.”
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