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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Part 3 · Chapter 51 — Panama Canal

§ 3712a. Authority to lease office space

Statutory text

Notwithstanding section 210 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 490),1 the Commission is authorized to negotiate directly and enter into contracts for the lease of, and for improvements to, real property in the United States for use by the Commission as office space, on such terms as the Commission considers to be in the interest of the United States, and to make direct payments therefor.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See References in Text note below.

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. 100–203 title V § 5415 · 101 Stat. 1330

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3712a

    (Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5415, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–270.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5415, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–270.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 5415. AUTHORITY TO LEASE OFFICE SPACE. Notwithstanding section 210 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 490), the Commission is authorized to negotiate directly and enter into contracts for the lease of, and for improvements to, real property in the United States for use by the Commission as office space, on such terms as the Commission considers to be in the interest of the United States, and to make direct payments therefor.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 210 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 490), referred to in text, was section 210 of act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, which was classified to section 490 of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, and was repealed and reenacted as sections 581 to 584, 588 and 589 and parts of sections 585 to 587 and 592 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, §§ 1, 6(b), , 116 Stat. 1062, 1304. For disposition of section 490 of former Title 40, see Table at beginning of Title 40.

Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, and not as part of the Panama Canal Act of 1979 which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5415, , 101 Stat. 1330–270.)

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