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Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Part D · Chapter 87 — Physical Development of National Capital Region

§ 8736. Execution of deeds

Statutory text

The Mayor of the District of Columbia may execute deeds of conveyance for real estate sold under this subchapter. The deeds shall contain a full description of the land sold as required by law.

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. § 8736

    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)

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Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
873640:72e.Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, § 3, 53 Stat. 1211.

The word “proper” is omitted as unnecessary. The words “as required by” are substituted for “either by metes and bounds, or otherwise according to” to eliminate unnecessary words.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1227.)

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