§ 3477. Acquisition and maintenance of property

Statutory text

Authorized properties; establishment of necessary facilities

The Secretary is authorized—

to acquire (by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise), construct, improve, repair, operate, and maintain—

schools and related facilities (but only to the extent that operation of schools and related facilities by the Department is authorized by this chapter);

laboratories;

research and testing sites and facilities;

quarters and related accommodations for employees and dependents of employees of the Department; and

personal property (including patents), or any interest therein,

as may be necessary; and

to provide by contract or otherwise for the establishment of eating facilities and other necessary facilities for the health and welfare of employees of the Department at its installations, and purchase and maintain equipment therefor.

Day care center facilities

The authority available to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under section 2564 of this title, shall also be available to the Secretary.

Special purpose facilities

The authority granted by subsection (a) of this section shall be available only with respect to facilities of a special purpose nature that cannot readily be reassigned from similar Federal activities and are not otherwise available for assignment to the Department by the Administrator of General Services.

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.

1979
Department of Education Organization Act
Pub. L. 96–88 title IV § 417 · 93 Stat. 668
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3477
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 417, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 417, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 417. acquisition and maintenance of property (a) The Secretary is authorized— 20 USC 3477. (1) to acquire (by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise), construct, improve, repair, operate, and maintain— (A) schools and related facilities (but only to the extent that operation of schools and related facilities by the Department is authorized by this Act); (B) laboratories; (C) research and testing sites and facilities; (D) quarters and related accommodations for employees and dependents of employees of the Department; and (E) personal property (including patents), or any interest therein, as may be necessary; and (2) to provide by contract or otherwise for the establishment of eating facilities and other necessary facilities for the health and welfare of employees of the Department at its installations, and purchase and maintain equipment therefor. (b) The authority available to the Secretary of Health, Education, 20 USC 2564. and Welfare under section 524 of the Education Amendments of 1976 shall also be available to the Secretary. (c) The authority granted by subsection (a) of this section shall be available only with respect to facilities of a special purpose nature that cannot readily be reassigned from similar Federal activities and are not otherwise available for assignment to the Department by the Administrator of General Services.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 417, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 685.)