Volume 76

Public Law 87–786

To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 so as to permit donations of surplus personal property to schools for the mentally retarded, schools for the physically handicapped, radio and television stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as educational radio or educational television stations, and public libraries.

Approved October 10, 1962

Statutory text

AN ACT

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the first sentence

Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, amendment.

70 Stat. 493.

of paragraph (3) of subsection (j) of section 203 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 484 (j)) is amended (a) by striking out in clauses (A) and (B) the words “and universities’ and inserting in lieu thereof, in each such clause, the phrase “universities, schools for the mentally retarded, schools for the physically handicapped, and radio and television stations licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as educational radio or educational television stations”, and (b) by striking out the word “and” before “(B)” and by inserting immediately before the period at the end of such sentence the following: “, and (C) public libraries”.

Section 203(j) of such Act is further amended by inserting at the end thereof the following paragraph:

“(7)
The term ‘public library’, as used in this subsection, means a
“Public library.”
library that serves free all residents of a community, district, State, or region, and receives its financial support in whole or in part from public funds.”
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Approved October 10, 1962.