---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 1766"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "1766"
heading: "Rules and regulations; advance payment for rent and other service; funds for courtesies to foreign representatives"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/1766"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Foreign Market Development"
  - "Subchapter III — Representation Allowances, Regulations, General Provisions, and Authorization for Appropriations"
---

# §1766. Rules and regulations; advance payment for rent and other service; funds for courtesies to foreign representatives


The Secretary of Agriculture may make rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter and may cooperate with any Department or agency of the [United States](/usc/7/6402.md?p=8) Government, [State](/usc/7/1359aa.md?p=5), Territory, or possession or any organization or [person](/usc/7/1471g.md?p=b-1). In any foreign country where custom or practice requires payment in advance for rent or other service, such payment may be authorized by the Secretary of Agriculture. [Funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) available for the purposes of this chapter may be used for extending courtesies to representatives of foreign countries, when so provided in appropriation or other law.


## Source credit

(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, § 606A, formerly § 606, 68 Stat. 909; amended Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, § 8, 70 Stat. 1034; renumbered § 606A, Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 401(2), Oct. 21, 1978, 92 Stat. 1690.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1956—Act Aug. 3, 1956, inserted sentence relating to availability of funds for extending courtesies to representatives of foreign countries.