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type: "LegalText"
title: "7 U.S.C. § 1859"
description: "Donation to penal and correctional institutions"
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title_number: 7
title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
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chapter_name: "SURPLUS DISPOSAL OF AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES"
section: "1859"
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# 7 U.S.C. § 1859 - Donation to penal and correctional institutions
## Text
Notwithstanding any other limitations as to the disposal of surplus commodities acquired through price support operations, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized on such terms and under such regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem in the public interest, and upon application, to donate food commodities acquired through price support operations to Federal penal and correctional institutions, and to State correctional institutions for minors, other than those in which food service is provided for inmates on a fee, contract, or concession basis.
(May 28, 1956, ch. 327, title II, § 210, 70 Stat. 202.)
## Notes
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authorization for Commodity Credit Corporation To Purchase and Donate Flour and CornmealPub. L. 85683, Aug. 19, 1958, 72 Stat. 635, as authorizing Commodity Credit Corporation to purchase and donate flour and cornmeal when it has wheat or corn available for donation pursuant to this section, see note set out under section 1431 of this title.