---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 1181"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "1181"
heading: "Contract authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/1181"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation"
  - "Subchapter IV — Other Federal Programs"
---

# §1181. Contract authority


The authority of the Secretary to enter into contracts under this subchapter and subchapter V shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance by appropriation Acts.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–255, title IV, § 414, as added Pub. L. 96–181, § 9(a), Jan. 2, 1980, 93 Stat. 1314.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Subchapter V, referred to in text, consisted of sections 501 to 504 of title V of Pub. L. 92–255, Mar. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 85, which were classified to sections 1191 to 1194 of this title, respectively. Sections 501 to 503 were made part of the Public Health Service Act by Pub. L. 98–24, § 2(b)(4), (11), (15), Apr. 26, 1983, 97 Stat. 177, 180, 181, and were transferred to former sections 290aa–2, 290ee, and 290cc, respectively, of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Section 290aa–2 of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 102–321, § 101(b). Section 290cc of Title 42 was repealed by Pub. L. 102–321, § 123(c). Section 290ee of Title 42 was omitted in the general revision of part D of subchapter III–A of chapter 6A of Title 42 by Pub. L. 102–321. Section 1194 of this title was repealed by Pub. L. 98–24, § 2(c)(2).