Volume 68
Public Law 83–305
To permit a first preference for former owners of certain dwellings being sold under Lanham War Housing Act.
Approved March 10, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit a first preference for former owners of certain dwellings being sold under Lanham War Housing Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 607 (b) of the Act entitled “An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes”, approved
64 Stat. 70.
October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by inserting after the first
sentence of the last paragraph of that subsection the following sentence: “In the disposition of any dwellings under this section which were acquired by the United States from persons occupying the dwellings at the time of such acquisition, the Administrator may, notwithstanding the order of preference provided in this section, grant a first preference to such persons in the purchase of any of these dwellings for such period and under such conditions as he may determine to be appropriate and in the public interest.”
Approved March 10, 1954.