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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 9 — Housing of Persons Engaged in National Defense

§ 1594b. Maintenance and operation of housing; use of quarters; payment of principal, interest, and other obligations

Statutory text

The Secretary of Defense or his designee is authorized to maintain and operate any housing acquired under this title and assign quarters therein to military and civilian personnel and their dependents. Appropriations for quarters allowances or appropriate allotments, and rental charges to civilian personnel, may be utilized by the military department concerned for the payment of principal, interest, and other obligations, except those of maintenance and operation, of the mortgagor corporation with respect to such housing projects. Such payments shall not exceed an average of $90 a month per housing unit and total payments for all housing so acquired shall not exceed $21,000,000 per month: Provided, That, in case of the United States Coast Guard, total payments for all housing so acquired shall not exceed $90,000 per month.

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. Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, title IV, § 405, 69 Stat. 652 · 69 Stat. 652

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1594b

    Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, title IV, § 405, 69 Stat. 652

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, title IV, § 405, 69 Stat. 652

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This title, referred to in text, means title IV of act Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, 69 Stat. 646, which enacted sections 1594 and 1594a, 1594b to 1594f of this title, amended sections 1720, 1748, and 1748a to 1748g of Title 12, Banks and Banking, and enacted provisions set out as a note under section 1748 of Title 12. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

1956—Act , substituted “$21,000,000” for “$9,000,000”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

Credits

1955–1956 · 2 acts
  1. 1955Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, title IV, § 405, 69 Stat. 652
  2. 1956Aug. 7, 1956, ch. 1029, title V, § 508, 70 Stat. 1110.
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(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 783, title IV, § 405, 69 Stat. 652; Aug. 7, 1956, ch. 1029, title V, § 508, 70 Stat. 1110.)

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