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[CITE: 7USC1308-5]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
             CHAPTER 35--AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 1938
 
 SUBCHAPTER II--LOANS, PARITY PAYMENTS, CONSUMER SAFEGUARDS, MARKETING 
                   QUOTAS, AND MARKETING CERTIFICATES
 
  Part A--Definitions, Loans, Parity Payments, and Consumer Safeguards
 
Sec. 1308-5. Treatment of multiyear program contract payments


(a) In general

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the event of a 
transfer of ownership of land (or an ownership interest in land) by way 
of devise or descent, the Secretary of Agriculture may, if the new owner 
succeeds to the prior owner's contract entered into under title XII,\1\ 
make payments to the new owner under such contract without regard to the 
amount of payments received by the new owner under any contract entered 
into under title XII \1\ executed prior to such devise or descent.
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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(b) Limitation

    Payments made pursuant to this section shall not exceed the amount 
to which the previous owner was entitled to receive under the terms of 
the contract at the time of the death of the prior owner.

(Pub. L. 99-198, title X, Sec. 1001E, as added Pub. L. 101-624, title 
XI, Sec. 1111(h), Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 3499.)

                       References in Text

    Title XII, referred to in subsec. (a), is title XII of the Food 
Security Act of 1985, Pub. L. 99-198, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1504, as 
amended, popularly known as the ``Sodbuster Law'', which is classified 
principally to chapter 58 (Sec. 3801 et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. 
For complete classification of title XII to the Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and 
not as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 which comprises 
this chapter.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective beginning with 1991 crop of an agricultural 
commodity, with provision for prior crops, see section 1171 of Pub. L. 
101-624, set out as an Effective Date of 1990 Amendment note under 
section 1421 of this title.
