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# 21 U.S.C. § 680 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, title IV, § 411, formerly § 410, as added Pub. L. 90–201, § 16, Dec. 15, 1967, 81 Stat. 600; renumbered § 411, Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 918(a)(1)(A), Apr. 4, 1996, 110 Stat. 1188.)