---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 349"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "349"
heading: "“State” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/349"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges"
  - "Subchapter IV — Agricultural Extension Work Appropriation"
---

# §349. “State” defined


The term “[State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5)” means the [States](/usc/7/198.md?p=5) of the Union, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.


## Source credit

(May 8, 1914, ch. 79, § 10, as added Pub. L. 87–749, § 1(i), Oct. 5, 1962, 76 Stat. 745; amended Pub. L. 92–318, title V, § 506(h), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 351; Pub. L. 99–396, § 9(f), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 840.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1986—Pub. L. 99–396 amended section generally, expanding definition of “State” to include the Northern Mariana Islands.

1972—Pub. L. 92–318 inserted reference to Virgin Islands and Guam.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1972 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 92–318 effective after June 30, 1970, see section 506(n) of Pub. L. 92–318, set out as a note under section 326a of this title.