---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 173"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "173"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/173"
units:
  - "Chapter 8A — Rubber and Other Critical Agricultural Materials"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §173. Authorization of appropriations


There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of [sections 171 to 173](/usc/7/171..173.md) of this title. Any amounts so appropriated, and any [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) received by the Secretary under said sections, shall remain permanently available for the purposes of said sections without regard to the provisions of any other laws relating to the availability and disposition of appropriated [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) and the disposition of [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) collected by officers or agencies of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8).


## Source credit

(Mar. 5, 1942, ch. 140, § 3, 56 Stat. 128.)