7 U.S.C. § 499o : US Code - Section 499O: Rules, regulations, and orders; appointment, removal, and compensation of officers and employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations; abrogation of inconsistent statutes

Search 7 U.S.C. § 499o : US Code - Section 499O: Rules, regulations, and orders; appointment, removal, and compensation of officers and employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations; abrogation of inconsistent statutes

The Secretary may make such rules, regulations, and orders as may
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter, and may
cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any
State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency,
or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the
power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers
and employees not in conflict with existing law, and make such
expenditures for rent outside the District of Columbia, printing,
binding, telegrams, telephones, lawbooks, books of reference,
publications, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and
other supplies and expenses, including reporting services, as shall
be necessary to the administration of this chapter in the District
of Columbia and elsewhere, from the Perishable Agricultural
Commodities Act fund provided for by section 499c(b) of this title
and any supplements to such fund, and as may be appropriated for by
Congress; and there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may
be necessary for such purposes. This chapter shall not abrogate nor
nullify any other statute, whether State or Federal, dealing with
the same subjects of this chapter; but it is intended that all such
statutes shall remain in full force and effect except insofar only
as they are inconsistent herewith or repugnant hereto.