§613. Exemption of certain public buildings projects

This chapter shall not apply to the construction of any public building-

(1) for which an appropriation for construction is made out of the $500,000 made available for construction of small public building projects outside the District of Columbia pursuant to the Public Buildings Act of May 25, 1926, as amended, in the third paragraph, or for which an appropriation is made in the fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth paragraphs, under the heading "general services administration" in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959,

(2) which is a project referred to in the first proviso of the fifth paragraph under the heading "general services administration" in title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959,

(3) for which an appropriation for direct construction by an executive agency other than the General Services Administration of a specified public building has been made before September 9, 1959,

(4) within the purview of section 1252(c) ¹ of title 8 or section 68 of title 19.

( Pub. L. 86–249, §14, Sept. 9, 1959, 73 Stat. 483 .)

References in Text

The Public Buildings Act of May 25, 1926, referred to in par. (1), is act May 25, 1926, ch. 380, 44 Stat. 630 , as amended, which enacted sections 341, 342, 343 to 345a, 346, and 347 of this title, which were repealed or eliminated by Pub. L. 86–249 which enacted this chapter.

Title I of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959, referred to in pars. (1) and (2), is title I of Pub. L. 85–844, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 1063 . The fourth through eighth paragraphs under the heading "General Services Administration", which appear at 72 Stat. 1067, are not classified to the Code, except for the first proviso of the fifth paragraph which is set out as a note under section 356 of this title.

Section 1252 of title 8, referred to in par. (4), was amended generally by Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title III, §306(a)(2), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–607 , and, as so amended, subsec. (c) relates to requirements for petitions for review or for habeas corpus and not to public buildings. Provisions similar to those contained in former section 1252(c) are now contained in section 1231(g) of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.

¹ See References in Text note below.