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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 12A — Tennessee Valley Authority

§ 831g. Principal office of Corporation; books; directors’ oath

Statutory text

(a)

Location

The Corporation shall maintain its principal office in the immediate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The Corporation shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident of the northern judicial district of Alabama within the meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the venue of civil suits.

(b)

Account books

The Corporation shall at all times maintain complete and accurate books of accounts.

(c)

Oath of office

Each member of the Board, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall subscribe to an oath (or affirmation) to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon him by this chapter.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 73–32 § 8 · 48 Stat. 58

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 831g

    May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 8, 48 Stat. 63

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 8, 48 Stat. 63

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. (a) The Corporation shall maintain its principal office Principal office of Corporation. in the immediate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The Corporation shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident of the northern judicial district of Alabama within the meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the venue of civil suits. (b) The Corporation shall at all times maintain complete and Complete accounts to be maintained. accurate books of accounts. (c) Each member of the board, before entering upon the duties Oath of office. of his office, shall subscribe to an oath (or affirmation) to support the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully and impartially perform the duties imposed upon him by this Act.

  2. Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

    Pub. L. 108–447 div. C title VI § 603(a)(2) · 118 Stat. 2809

    Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831g(c)

    Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.

    Effective date note
    Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date of 2004 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or , see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.

Credits

1933–2004 · 2 acts
  1. 1933May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 8, 48 Stat. 63
  2. 2004Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, § 603(a)(2), , 118 Stat. 2966.
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(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 8, 48 Stat. 63; Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, § 603(a)(2), , 118 Stat. 2966.)

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