---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2270a"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2270a"
heading: "Office of Inspector General; transfer of forfeiture funds for law enforcement activities"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2270a"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2270a. Office of Inspector General; transfer of forfeiture funds for law enforcement activities


For fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, [funds](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) transferred to the Office of the Inspector General through forfeiture proceedings or from the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture [Fund](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5) or the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture [Fund](/usc/7/4531.md?p=5), as a participating agency, as an equitable share from the forfeiture of property in investigations in which the Office of the Inspector General participates, or through the granting of a Petition for Remission or Mitigation, shall be deposited to the credit of this account for law enforcement activities authorized under [chapter 4](/usc/5/chptI-ch4.md) of title 5, to remain available until expended.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(a) [title I], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681, 2681–3; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(b)(24), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4346.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Pub. L. 105–86, title I, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2082.

Pub. L. 104–180, title I, Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1572.

Pub. L. 104–37, title I, Oct. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 302.

### Amendments

2022—Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “chapter 4 of title 5,” for “the Inspector General Act of 1978,”.