Construction and repair of buildings and public improvements
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Title
7 — Agriculture
Chapter
CH55
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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The Department of Agriculture is authorized to erect, alter, and repair such buildings and other public improvements as may be necessary to carry out its authorized work: Provided, That no building or improvement shall be erected or altered under this authority unless provision is made therefor in the applicable appropriation and the cost thereof is not in excess of limitations prescribed therein.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, § 703, 58 Stat. 742.)
Editorial Notes
Codification
This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.
Section was formerly classified to section 565a of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
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