Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

21 U.S.C. § 694

Authorization of appropriations

Annual appropriations of the sum of $3,000,000 from the general fund of the Treasury are authorized for the expenses of the inspection of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats and the meat and meat food products thereof which enter into interstate or foreign commerce and for all expenses necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act relating to meat inspection, including rent and the employment of labor in Washington and elsewhere, for each year, and in addition there is authorized to be appropriated such other sums as may be necessary in the enforcement of the meat inspection laws.

June 30, 1906, ch. 391334 Stat. 679June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 248 Stat. 1225(, ; , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

act June 30, 1906, ch. 391334 Stat. 669This Act, referred to in text, is , , which made appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending .

Codification

Act June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 2(a)48 Stat. 1225

“Meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry (fiscal year) (3–114).”
, , which was classified to section 725a of former Title 31, Money and Finance, provided for the repeal, effective , of the permanent appropriations under the appropriations titles listed in section 2(b) of such Act, and further provided that such portions of any Acts as made permanent appropriations to be expended under such accounts were amended so as to authorize, in lieu thereof, annual appropriations from the general fund of the Treasury in identical terms and in such amounts as were provided by the laws providing such permanent appropriations. The text of section 2(b)(3) of such Act provides as follows: Section 2(a) of such Act also authorized to be appropriated such other sums as necessary in the enforcement of the meat inspection laws. See 1934 Amendment note below.

Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Meat Inspection Act which is classified to subchapters I to IV–A of this chapter.

section 95 of this titleSection was formerly classified to .

Amendments

1934—Act , substituted “Annual appropriations of the sum of $3,000,000 from the general fund of the Treasury are authorized” for “There is permanently appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $3,000,000,” and inserted before period at end “, and in addition there is authorized to be appropriated such other sums as may be necessary in the enforcement of the meat inspection laws”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 1934 Amendment

Act June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 2(a)48 Stat. 1225, , provided that the permanent appropriations under the appropriations titles listed in section 2(b) of such Act were repealed, effective .