---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2241"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2241"
heading: "Sale or exchange of animals or animal products"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2241"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2241. Sale or exchange of animals or animal products


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture is authorized to sell in the open [market](/usc/7/198.md?p=1) or to exchange for other livestock such animals or animal products as cease to be needed in the work of the department, and all moneys received from the sale of such animals or animal products or as a bonus in the exchange of the same shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1915, ch. 144, 38 Stat. 1114.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 549 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.