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Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Chapter 5 — Property Management

§ 557. Donation of books to Free Public Library

Statutory text

Subject to regulations under this subtitle, a book that is no longer needed by an executive department, bureau, or commission of the Federal Government, and that is not an advisable addition to the Library of Congress, shall be turned over to the Free Public Library of the District of Columbia for general use if the book is appropriate for the Free Public Library.

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. 107–217 · 116 Stat. 1062

    Enacted · 40 U.S.C. § 557

    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1102.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1102.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
55740:484–1.Feb. 25, 1903, ch. 755, § 1 (7th par. on p. 865), 32 Stat. 865; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, § 2(1), 65 Stat. 706.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1102.)

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