---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2273"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2273"
heading: "Local search and rescue operations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2273"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2273. Local search and rescue operations


The [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture may assist, through the use of Soil Conservation Service personnel, vehicles, communication equipment, and other equipment or materials available to the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2), in local search and rescue operations when requested by responsible local public authorities. Such assistance may be provided in emergencies caused by tornadoes, fires, floods, snowstorms, earthquakes, and similar disasters.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–98, title XV, § 1550, Dec. 22, 1981, 95 Stat. 1344.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 22, 1981, see section 1801 of Pub. L. 97–98, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.