§ 297. Acquisition of property by lease

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. 1926

   Pub. L. 69–250 § 6 · 44 Stat. 403

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 297

   May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 6, 44 Stat. 405

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 6, 44 Stat. 405

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 6. The authority granted to acquire sites and buildings Leases authorized if titles not obtainable. by purchase shall, in cases where it is impossible to acquire the, be construed as authority to acquire the property by lease for a term sufficiently long, in the judgment of the commission, to be practically equivalent to the acquisition of title.

2. 1977

   Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1978

   Pub. L. 95–105 title I § 106(b) · 91 Stat. 844

   Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 297

   Pub. L. 95–105 struck out “of not less than ten years” after “acquire leaseholds”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 95–105 struck out “of not less than ten years” after “acquire leaseholds”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) Section 6 of such Act is amended by striking out “of not less 22 USC 297. than ten years”.

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