---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 9058"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "9058"
heading: "Effect of failure to pay administrative fees or premiums"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/9058"
units:
  - "Chapter 115 — Agricultural Commodity Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter III — Dairy"
  - "Part A — Dairy Margin Coverage"
---

# §9058. Effect of failure to pay administrative fees or premiums

- (a) **Loss of benefits—** A [participating dairy operation](/usc/7/9051.md?p=7) that fails to pay the required annual administrative fee under [section 9054 of this title](/usc/7/9054.md) or is in arrears on premium payments under [section 9057 of this title](/usc/7/9057.md)—
  - (1) remains legally obligated to pay the administrative fee or premiums, as the case may be; and
  - (2) may not receive [dairy margin coverage payments](/usc/7/9051.md?p=6) until the fees or premiums are fully paid.
- (b) **Enforcement—** The [Secretary](/usc/7/9011.md?p=20) may take such action as necessary to collect administrative fees and premium payments for participation in [dairy margin coverage](/usc/7/9051.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–79, title I, § 1408, Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 693; Pub. L. 115–334, title I, § 1401(k)(9), Dec. 20, 2018, 132 Stat. 4517.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(9)(A), substituted “dairy margin coverage” for “margin protection”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–334, § 1401(k)(9)(B), substituted “dairy margin coverage” for “the margin protection program”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–334 effective on Jan. 1, 2019, see section 1401(m) of Pub. L. 115–334, set out as a note under section 9051 of this title.