---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2221"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2221"
heading: "Details of persons from or to office of Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2221"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2221. Details of persons from or to office of Secretary


Details may be made from or to the office of the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) when necessary and the services of the [person](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) whom it is proposed to detail are not required in that office.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1280.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 530 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.