7 U.S.C. § 511m

Regulation; hearings; employees; expenditures; authorization of appropriations

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The Secretary is authorized to make such rules and regulations and hold such hearings as he may deem necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter and may cooperate with any other Department or agency of the Government; any State, territory, district, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof; purchasing and consuming organizations, boards of trade, chambers of commerce, or other associations of business men or trade organizations; or any person, whether operating in one or more jurisdictions in carrying on the work herein authorized; and he shall have the power to appoint, suspend, remove, and fix the compensation of all officers, employees, and licensees not in conflict with existing law, except that inspectors and supervisors employed thereunder on a seasonal basis and working for periods of six months or less during any twelve-month period may be appointed without reference to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. The Secretary is authorized to make such expenditures for rent outside of the District of Columbia, printing, binding, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, publications, furniture, stationery, office and laboratory equipment, travel, tobacco for use in preparing and demonstrating standards, 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, 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 administering this chapter.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 9 cases, 1945–1978 · leading case: The Danville Tobacco Ass'n, a Corp. v. Orville L. Freeman, Sec'y of Agric., 351 F.2d 832 (D.C. Cir. 1965).
The Danville Tobacco Ass'n, a Corp. v. Orville L. Freeman, Sec'y of Agric., 351 F.2d 832 (D.C. Cir. 1965). “EDGERTON, Senior Circuit Judge: Appellants, tobacco warehousemen and their trade associations in Danville, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina, asked for a declaratory judgment *833 that the Secretary of Agriculture’s regulations adopted in 1958 under the Tobacco…”
Fayette Tobacco Warehouse Co. v. Lexington Tobacco Bd. of Trade, 299 S.W.2d 640 (Ky. Ct. App. 1956). “7 U.S.C.A. § 511m. Traditionally, the Secretary has cooperated with all local tobacco boards of trade with respect to the conduct of auction sales in states where burley tobacco is sold.”
Barton v. Bergland, 444 F. Supp. 447 (E.D. Ky. 1978). “See 7 U.S.C. § 511m. The Court is very much in sympathy with the plaintiffs desiring to exercise their rights to sell tobacco without restrictions on the form of the burley as it is brought to market.”
Greer v. Cline, 148 F.2d 380 (6th Cir. 1945). “” *383 As stated by the District Judge in his opinion denying the motion of appellant for a temporary injunction and dissolving the temporary restraining order, the authority of the Administrator of the Tobacco Inspection Act to appoint inspectors and other employees necessary…”
Toilet Goods Ass'n v. Gardner, 360 F.2d 677 (2d Cir. 1966). “2d 286 (1965), 2 and the District of Columbia Circuit’s recent holding that declaratory relief was not available to challenge certain regulations adopted under the Tobacco Inspection Act, 7 U.S.C. § 511m, Danville Tobacco Ass’n v.”
J. W. Barton, Jr. v. Robert Bergland, Sec'y of Agric., 579 F.2d 1009 (6th Cir. 1978). “3 We also note that the Secretary is now consulting pursuant to 7 U.S.C. § 511m with the Council for Burley Tobacco, which includes representatives of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, to determine the advisability of permitting looseleaf burley to receive…”
Hicks v. Freeman, 273 F. Supp. 334 (M.D.N.C. 1967). “This had apparently been the method of compensation for tobacco Inspectors since at least 1946: all non-probationary tobacco Inspectors grading two types of flue-cured tobacco received a minimum of eight months’ pay in their civil service grade per year.”
Winn Avenue Warehouse, Inc. v. Winchester Tobacco Warehouse Co., 220 F. Supp. 741 (E.D. Ky. 1963). “With the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture under 7 U.S.C.A. § 511m, a new Winchester Tobacco Board of Trade, organized or to be organized pursuant to chapter 302, page 1041, of the Acts of the General Assembly of Kentucky of 1962 (K.”
Peoples Loose Leaf Tobacco Warehouse Co. v. Cline, 58 F. Supp. 612 (E.D. Ky. 1946). “The authority of the Administrator of the Act to appoint or employ inspectors and other employees necessary to effectuate the purposes of the Act is expressly conferred by section 14, 7 U.S.C.A. § 511m. Under this section of the Act the authority of the administrator to employ…”
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