40 USC 281: Furniture and repairs

40 USC 281: Furniture and repairs Text contains those laws in effect on January 2, 2001

From Title 40-PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKSCHAPTER 3-PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY

§281. Furniture and repairs

Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever the Administrator of General Services is authorized to secure temporary quarters for the use of Government officials pending the alteration, improvement, or repairs to, or the remodeling, reconstruction, or enlargement of any public building under the control of the Administrator of General Services, excluding marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints and branch mints, appropriations for furniture and repairs of furniture, shall be available, if necessary, in connection with such portions of the premises as may be rented for or occupied by such officials in the same manner, for the same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises were vested in the United States.

(June 23, 1913, ch. 3, 38 Stat. 22 ; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§301, 303, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, 1427; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, §103(a), 63 Stat. 380 .)

Codification

Section is based on a proviso in Sundry Civil Appropriation Act June 23, 1913, fiscal year 1914.

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, together with functions of Federal Works Administrator transferred to Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to section 753(a) of this title. Federal Works Agency and office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section 103(b) of act June 30, 1949.

"Federal Works Agency," as formerly used in this section, originally read "Treasury Department," and "Federal Works Administrator" originally read "Secretary of the Treasury." By Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939, Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of Treasury Department transferred to Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, and functions of Secretary of the Treasury relating to Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division and to selection of location and sites for public buildings transferred to Federal Works Administrator.

Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note under section 471 of this title.