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Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Part III · Chapter 301 — General Provisions

§ 4010. Acquisition of additional land

Statutory text

The Attorney General may, when authorized by law, acquire land adjacent to or in the vicinity of a Federal penal or correctional institution if he considers the additional land essential to the protection of the health or safety of the inmates of the institution.

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. 89–554 § 3(f) · 80 Stat. 378

    Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 4010

    (Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 3(f), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 610.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 3(f), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 610.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (f) Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding the following new sections: “§ 4010. Acquisition of additional land “The Attorney General may, when authorized by law, acquire land adjacent to or in the vicinity of a Federal penal or correctional institution if he considers the additional land essential to the protection of the health or safety of the inmates of the institution. “§ 4011. Disposition of cash collections for meals, laundry, etc. “Collections in cash for meals, laundry, barber service, uniform equipment, and other items for which payment is made originally from appropriations for the maintenance and operation of Federal penal and correctional institutions, may be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation currently available for those items when the collection is made.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
DerivationU.S. CodeRevised Statutes andStatutes at Large
 5 U.S.C. 341f.July 28, 1950, ch. 503, § 7, 64 Stat. 381.
  Sept. 16, 1959, Pub. L. 86–286, 73 Stat. 567.

The reference to an appropriation law is omitted as covered by the words “when authorized by law”.

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 3(f), , 80 Stat. 610.)

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