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[CITE: 41USC6b]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 6b. Miscellaneous exceptions from advertisement 
        requirements
        

(a) Control of insects, pests, and grass diseases

    Materials and equipment for the control of incipient or emergency 
outbreaks of insects, pests, or grass diseases, including grasshoppers, 
Mormon crickets, and chinch bugs, may be procured with any sums 
appropriated to carry out the provisions of sections 148 to 148e of 
title 7 without regard to the provisions of section 5 of this title, and 
the transportation thereof may be under such conditions and means as 
shall be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be most 
advantageous.

(b) Omitted

(c) Operations on Menominee Indian Reservation

    All contracts for labor or supplies necessary for the carrying on of 
operations on the Menominee Indian Reservation pursuant to the Act of 
March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. 51), as amended, shall be exempt from the 
requirements of section 5 of this title.

(d) Sale of Indian produced forest products

    The lumber and other forest products produced by Indian enterprises 
from the forests on Indian reservations may be sold under such 
regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, without 
compliance with section 5 of this title.

(June 24, 1940, ch. 412, 54 Stat. 504; Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 851, Sec. 3, 
54 Stat. 1111.)

                       References in Text

    Act of March 28, 1908 (35 Stat. 51), referred to in subsec. (c), 
probably means act Mar. 28, 1908, ch. 111, 35 Stat. 51, which is not 
classified to the Code.

                          Codification

    Subsecs. (a) to (c) are from act Oct. 10, 1940. Subsec. (b), which 
related to obligations of Civilian Conservation Corps, was omitted 
because the Corps was liquidated June 30, 1944.
    Subsec. (d) is from act June 24, 1940, which was formerly classified 
to section 6mm of this title.
    Subsec. (e), which related to the employment of experts or 
consultants in the Canal Zone, was from the General Government Matters 
Appropriation Act, 1962, Pub. L. 87-125, title III, Sec. 301, Aug. 3, 
1961, 75 Stat. 279, and was omitted as not repeated in subsequent 
appropriation acts. Provisions similar to former subsec. (e) were 
contained in the following prior appropriation acts:
    May 13, 1960, Pub. L. 86-451, title II, Sec. 201, 74 Stat. 101.
    July 13, 1959, Pub. L. 86-88, title II, Sec. 201, 73 Stat. 208.
    June 25, 1958, Pub. L. 85-469, title II, Sec. 203, 72 Stat. 236.
    June 13, 1957, Pub. L. 85-52, title II, Sec. 203, 71 Stat. 79, as 
amended Mar. 28, 1958, Pub. L. 85-352, ch. II, Sec. 201, 72 Stat. 52.
    June 20, 1956, ch. 415, title II, Sec. 203, 70 Stat. 324.
    June 30, 1955, ch. 253, title II, Sec. 203, 69 Stat. 236.
    June 30, 1954, ch. 425, Sec. 104, 68 Stat. 335.
    July 27, 1953, ch. 245, Sec. 104, 67 Stat. 202.
    July 11, 1952, ch. 669, Sec. 104, 66 Stat. 584.
    Oct. 24, 1951, ch. 556, Sec. 104, 65 Stat. 622.
    Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, Ch. IX, Sec. 103, 64 Stat. 730.
    Oct. 13, 1949, ch. 688, Sec. 4, 63 Stat. 852.
    June 25, 1948, ch. 655, Sec. 4, 62 Stat. 1026.
    July 31, 1947, ch. 411, Sec. 4, 61 Stat. 694.
    May 2, 1946, ch. 247, Sec. 4, 60 Stat. 167.
    Mar. 31, 1945, ch. 45, Sec. 4, 59 Stat. 45.
    June 26, 1944, ch. 275, Sec. 4, 58 Stat. 333.
    June 2, 1943, ch. 115, Sec. 4, 57 Stat. 99.
    Apr. 28, 1942, ch. 246, Sec. 5, 56 Stat. 225.
    June 24, 1940, ch. 412, 54 Stat. 504.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 6b, acts Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 281, 46 Stat. 1363; June 
30, 1932, ch. 330, 47 Stat. 460; June 16, 1933, ch. 101, 48 Stat. 292; 
Mar. 28, 1934, ch. 102, title I, 48 Stat. 514; Feb. 2, 1935, ch. 3, 49 
Stat. 11; Mar. 19, 1936, ch. 156, 49 Stat. 1173; June 28, 1937, ch. 396, 
50 Stat. 336; May 23, 1938, ch. 259, 52 Stat. 418; Mar. 16, 1939, ch. 
11, 53 Stat. 532; Apr. 18, 1940, ch. 107, 54 Stat. 131, excepted General 
Accounting Office from provisions of section 5 of this title, prior to 
repeal by act Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 851, Sec. 4, 54 Stat. 1111.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all officers, agencies and employees of Department of 
Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
Agriculture by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1953, Sec. 1, eff. June 4, 1953, 18 
F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
