[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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 \1\ 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.
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(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
Sections 148 to 148e of title 7, referred to in subsec. (a), were
repealed. Sections 148, 148a, and 148c to 148e were repealed by Pub. L.
106-224, title IV, Sec. 438(a)(6), June 20, 2000, 114 Stat. 454, and
section 148b was repealed by Act Oct. 10, 1940, ch. 851, Sec. 4, 54
Stat. 1111.
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.
