---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 511m"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "511m"
heading: "Regulation; hearings; employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/511m"
units:
  - "Chapter 21A — Tobacco Inspection"
---

# §511m. Regulation; hearings; employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations


The [Secretary](/usc/7/511.md?p=b) is authorized to make such rules and regulations and hold such hearings as he may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and may cooperate with any other Department or agency of the Government; any [State](/usc/7/198.md?p=5), territory, district, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; purchasing and consuming organizations, boards of trade, chambers of [commerce](/usc/7/511.md?p=i), or other associations of business men or trade organizations; or any [person](/usc/7/511.md?p=a), whether operating in one or more jurisdictions in carrying on the work herein authorized; and he shall have the power to appoint, suspend, remove, and fix the compensation of all officers, employees, and licensees not in conflict with existing law, except that [inspectors](/usc/7/511.md?p=c) and supervisors employed thereunder on a seasonal basis and working for periods of six months or less during any twelve-month period may be appointed without reference to the provisions of [chapter 51](/usc/7/chch51.md) and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The [Secretary](/usc/7/511.md?p=b) is authorized to make such expenditures for rent outside of the District of Columbia, printing, binding, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, publications, furniture, stationery, office and laboratory equipment, travel, [tobacco](/usc/7/511.md?p=f) for use in preparing and demonstrating standards, and other supplies and expenses, including reporting services, as shall be necessary to the administration of this chapter in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and as may be appropriated for by Congress; and there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for administering this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 23, 1935, ch. 623, § 14, 49 Stat. 734; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title II, § 202(28), title XI, § 1106(a), 63 Stat. 956, 972.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Classification Act of 1949” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Amendments

1949—Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeals

Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, § 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.