---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2205"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2205"
heading: "Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2205"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2205. Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture is authorized and directed to perform all the duties named in all Acts of Congress in force on February 8, 1889, to be performed by the Commissioner of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 840; July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 515 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.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.