7 U.S.C. § 7995
Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)
The provisions of section 590h(g) of title 16, relating to assignment of payments, shall apply to payments made under the authority of this Act. The producer making the assignment, or the assignee, shall provide the Secretary with notice, in such manner as the Secretary may require, of any assignment made under this section.
7 U.S.C. § 7995
EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXTThis Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 107-171, 116 Stat. 134, known as the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7901 of this title and Tables.
- Secretary
- The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
- producer
- The term "producer" means an owner, operator, landlord, tenant, or sharecropper that shares in the risk of producing a crop and is entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the farm, or would have shared had the crop been produced. In determining whether a grower of hybrid seed is a producer, the Secretary shall not take into consideration the existence of a hybrid seed contract and shall ensure that program requirements do not adversely affect the ability of the grower to receive a payment under this chapter.