---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2279i"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2279i"
heading: "Cooperation with State and other agencies; expenditures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2279i"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2279i. Cooperation with State and other agencies; expenditures


In carrying on the activities of the Department of Agriculture involving cooperation with [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), county, and municipal agencies, associations of farmers, individual farmers, universities, colleges, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other local associations of business men, business organizations, and individuals within the [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), Territory, district, or insular possession in which such activities are to be carried on, moneys contributed from such outside sources, except in the case of the authorized activities of the Forest Service, shall be paid only through the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture or through [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), county, or municipal agencies, or local farm bureaus or like organizations, cooperating for the purpose with the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture.


## Source credit

(July 24, 1919, ch. 26, 41 Stat. 270.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 450b of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section, and to section 563 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.