---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 51a–1"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "51a–1"
heading: "Contracts with cooperatives furnishing classers; amount and type of payment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/51a-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Cotton Standards"
---

# §51a–1. Contracts with cooperatives furnishing classers; amount and type of payment


On and after July 5, 1952, the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) may contract with cooperatives furnishing classers and other facilities for classing cotton and may pay for such services an amount, some part of which may be in kind, not in excess of the value of the samples.


## Source credit

(July 5, 1952, ch. 574, title I, § 101, 66 Stat. 349.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1953, and not as part of the United States Cotton Standards Act which comprises this chapter.