21 U.S.C. § 889 : US Code - Section 889: Production control of controlled substances

Search 21 U.S.C. § 889 : US Code - Section 889: Production control of controlled substances

(a) Definitions
As used in this section:
(1) The term "controlled substance" has the same meaning given
such term in section 802(6) of this title.
(2) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture.
(3) The term "State" means each of the fifty States, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the
Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Trust
Territory of the Pacific Islands.
(b) Persons ineligible for Federal agricultural program benefits
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, following December
23, 1985, any person who is convicted under Federal or State law of
planting, cultivation, growing, producing, harvesting, or storing a
controlled substance in any crop year shall be ineligible for -
(1) as to any commodity produced during that crop year, and the
four succeeding crop years, by such person -
(A) any price support or payment made available under the
Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.), the Commodity
Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.), or any
other Act;
(B) a farm storage facility loan made under section 4(h) of
the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C.
714b(h));
(C) crop insurance under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.);
(D) a disaster payment made under the Agricultural Act of
1949 (7 U.S.C. 1421 et seq.); or
(E) a loan made, insured or guaranteed under the Consolidated
Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) or any
other provision of law administered by the Farmers Home
Administration; or
(2) a payment made under section 4 or 5 of the Commodity Credit
Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714b or 714c) for the storage
of an agricultural commodity that is -
(A) produced during that crop year, or any of the four
succeeding crop years, by such person; and
(B) acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation.
(c) Regulations
Not later than 180 days after December 23, 1985, the Secretary
shall issue such regulations as the Secretary determines are
necessary to carry out this section, including regulations that -
(1) define the term "person";
(2) govern the determination of persons who shall be ineligible
for program benefits under this section; and
(3) protect the interests of tenants and sharecroppers.