7 U.S.C. § 456 — Rules and regulations; appointment, removal, and compensation of employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations

This section is one unbroken provision with no lettered subsections. It gives the Secretary of Agriculture several powers to run this chapter of the law. Rulemaking: The Secretary may make whatever rules and regulations seem advisable to carry out this chapter. Cooperation: The Secretary may work with any federal department or agency, any state, territory, district, or possession (or their agencies or subdivisions), or any person. The Secretary may also call on any other federal department, board, or commission for help carrying out this chapter's purposes. Staffing: The Secretary has the power to appoint, remove, and set the pay of officers and employees needed for this work, as long as doing so does not conflict with existing law. Spending: The Secretary may spend money on rent (outside Washington, D.C.), printing, telegrams, telephones, reference books, law books, periodicals, newspapers, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses necessary to administer this chapter, whether in Washington, D.C. or elsewhere. Appropriations: Congress authorizes whatever sums are necessary, after fiscal year 1927, to be appropriated to carry out this chapter's purposes.