---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2226"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2226"
heading: "Employment of persons for forest fire fighting, pest control, and handling of animals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2226"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2226. Employment of persons for forest fire fighting, pest control, and handling of animals


Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Department is authorized on and after August 31, 1951, to [employ](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-10) or otherwise contract with [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) at regular rates of pay for necessary hours of work for emergency forest fire fighting and pest control and for handling of animals, including dairy cattle, without regard to Sundays, Federal holidays, and the regular workweek.


## Source credit

(Aug. 31, 1951, ch. 374, title IV, § 407, 65 Stat. 246.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 574a 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.