---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2228"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2228"
heading: "Emergency subsistence for employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2228"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2228. Emergency subsistence for employees


The Department of Agriculture is authorized to furnish subsistence to employees without consideration as, or deduction from, the compensation of such employees where warranted by emergency condition connected with the work under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture may prescribe.


## Source credit

(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, § 5, 70 Stat. 1033.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 541d 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.