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Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works

Chapter 9 — Urban Land Use

§ 901. Purpose and policy

Statutory text

The purpose of this chapter is to promote harmonious intergovernmental relations and encourage sound planning, zoning, and land use practices by prescribing uniform policies and procedures for the Administrator of General Services to acquire, use, and dispose of land in urban areas. To the greatest extent practicable, urban land transactions entered into for the General Services Administration and other federal agencies shall be consistent with zoning and land use practices and with the planning and development objectives of local governments and planning agencies.

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. § 901

    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1127.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1127.)

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)
90140:531.June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VIII, § 802, as added Pub. L. 90–577, title V, § 501, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1104.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–217, , 116 Stat. 1127.)

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