---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2009e"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2009e"
heading: "Transfers of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2009e"
units:
  - "Chapter 50 — Agricultural Credit"
  - "Subchapter V — Rural Community Advancement Program"
---

# §2009e. Transfers of funds

- (a) **General authority—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b) of this section, the [State Director](/usc/7/2009.md?p=2)[^1] of any [State](/usc/7/2009.md?p=1) may, during any fiscal year, transfer from each account specified in [section 2009d(c) of this title](/usc/7/2009d.md?p=c) a total of not more than 25 percent of the amount in the account that is allocated for the [State](/usc/7/2009.md?p=1) for the fiscal year to any other account in which amounts are allocated for the [State](/usc/7/2009.md?p=1) for the fiscal year.
- (b) **Limitation—** Except as provided in [subsection (c)](#c) of this section, a transfer otherwise authorized by [subsection (a)](#a) of this section to be made during a fiscal year may not be made to the extent that the sum of the amount to be transferred and all amounts so transferred by [State directors](/usc/7/2009.md?p=2) under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section during the fiscal year exceeds 10 percent of the total amount made available to carry out the authorities described in [section 2009d(d) of this title](/usc/7/2009d.md?p=d) for the fiscal year.
- (c) **Exceptions—** Subsections [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) shall not apply to a transfer of funds by a [State director](/usc/7/2009.md?p=2) if the [State director](/usc/7/2009.md?p=2) certifies to the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) that—
  - (1) there is an approved application for a project in the function category to which the funds are to be transferred but funds are not available for the project in the function category; and
  - (2)
    - (A) there is no such approved application in the function category from which the funds are to be transferred; or
    - (B) the community that would benefit from the project has a smaller population and a lesser per capita income than any community that would benefit from a project in the function category from which the funds are to be transferred.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–128, title III, § 381F, as added Pub. L. 104–127, title VII, § 761, Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1142.)