§ 1506. Administration of utilities and utility services; granting of easements

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. 1948

   An Act to expedite the provision of housing in connection with national defense, and for other purposes

   Pub. L. 80–688 § 2 · 62 Stat. 1062

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1506

   June 28, 1948, ch. 688, § 2, 62 Stat. 1063

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 28, 1948, ch. 688, § 2, 62 Stat. 1063

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. (a) Any Federal agency (including any wholly owned Government corporation) administering utility installations connected to a utility system for housing under the jurisdiction of the Housing and Utilities. Home Finance Administrator is authorized: (1) to continue to provide utilities and utility services to such housing as long as it is under the jurisdiction of the Administrator; (2) to contract with the purchasers or transferees of suchhousing to continue the utility connection with such installations and furnish such utilities and services as may be available and needed in connection with such housing, for such period of time (not exceeding the period of Federal administration of such installations) and subject to such terms (including the payment of the pro rata cost to the Government or the market value of the utilities and services furnished, whichever is greater) as may be determined by the head of the agency; (3) to dispose of such installations, when excess to the needs of the agency, and where not excess to grant an option to purchase, to the purchasers or transferees of such housing, for an amount not less than the appraised value of the installations and upon such terms and conditions as the head of the agency shall establish. (b) Any Federal Easements for utility purposes. agency (including any wholly owned Government corporation) having under its jurisdiction lands across which run any part of a utility system for housing under the jurisdiction of the Administrator is authorized to grant to the Administrator, or to the purchasers or transferees of such housing, easements (which may be perpetual) on such land for utility purposes.

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