Volume 71 · 517
Public Law 85–236
To provide for the conveyance to the State of California a portion of the property known as Veterans’ Administration Center Reservation, Los Angeles, California, to be used for National Guard purposes.
Approved August 30, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the conveyance to the State of California a portion of the property known as Veterans’ Administration Center Reservation, Los Angeles, California, to be used for National Guard purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed to convey to the State of California all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of land comprising three and eighty-five one-hundredths acres, more or less, being that parcel of land fronting approximately four hundred nineteen and fifty-two one-hundredths feet on Federal Avenue set aside for a proposed National Guard Armory and now a portion of the Veterans’ Administration Reservation, Los Angeles, California, subject, however, to the conditions and restrictions set forth in section 2 of this Act.
Sec. 2.
The conveyance authorized by this Act shall be made without
National Guard training.
monetary consideration therefor but upon condition that the property shall be used for training of the National Guard and for other military purposes, and in the event it shall not be used for such purposes title thereto shall immediately revert to the United States, and, in addition, title to all improvements (except those improvements which the State of California removes at its own expense within a reasonable time after title to such property has reverted to the United States) made by the State of California during its occupancy shall vest in the United States without payment of compensation therefor. The deed of conveyance shall reserve to the United States all mineral rights, including gas and oil, and contain the further provision that whenever the Congress of the United States declares a state of war or other national emergency, or the President declares a state of emergency, and upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that the property conveyed is useful or necessary for military, air, or naval purposes, or in the interest of national defense, the United States shall nave the right, without obligation to make payment of any kind, to reenter upon the property and use the same or any part thereof, including any and all improvements made by the State of California, for a period not to exceed the duration of such state of war or national emergency plus six months, and upon cessation of such use the property shall revert, to the State of California, together with any or all improvements thereon and appurtenances appertaining thereto.
Sec. 3.
The cost of any surveys necessary as an incident to the conveyance authorized herein shall be borne by the grantee.
Approved August 30, 1957.