7 U.S.C. § 2153
Section 2153 · Fees and authorization of appropriations
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Jurewicz v. United States Department of Agriculture & Humane Society (2014)
Most recently applied in People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture (July 2016)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Secretary shall charge, assess, and cause to be collected reasonable fees for licenses issued. Such fees shall be adjusted on an equitable basis taking into consideration the type and nature of the operations to be licensed and shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as Congress may from time to time provide: Provided, That there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Agriculture for enforcement by the Department of Agriculture of the provisions of section 2156 of this title an amount not to exceed $100,000 for the transition quarter ending September 30, 1976, and not to exceed $400,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
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Amendments
1976—Pub. L. 94–279 authorized appropriations for the enforcement of section 2156 of this title.