Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 37 — Community Facilities and Advance Land Acquisition
§ 3101. Congressional declaration of purpose
Statutory text
The purpose of this chapter is to assist and encourage the communities of the Nation fully to meet the needs of their citizens by making it possible, with Federal grant assistance, for their governmental bodies (1) to construct adequate basic water and sewer facilities needed to promote the efficient and orderly growth and development of our communities, (2) to construct neighborhood facilities needed to enable them to carry on programs of necessary social services, and (3) to acquire, in a planned and orderly fashion, land to be utilized in the future for public purposes.
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.
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–117 title VII § 701 · 79 Stat. 451
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3101
Pub. L. 89–117, title VII, § 701, Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 489
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–117, title VII, § 701, Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 489Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 701. purpose The purpose of this title is to assist and encourage the communities of the Nation fully to meet the needs of their citizens by making it possible, with Federal grant assistance, for their governmental bodies (1) to construct adequate basic water and sewer facilities needed to promote the efficient and orderly growth and development of our communities, (2) to construct neighborhood facilities needed to enable them to carry on programs of necessary social services, and (3) to acquire, in a planned and orderly fashion, land to lie utilized in connection with the future construction of public works and facilities.Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968
Pub. L. 90–448 title VI § 603(a) · 82 Stat. 476
Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 3101
Pub. L. 90–448 substituted “in the future for public purposes” for “in connection with the future construction of public works and facilities” in cl. (3)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 90–448 substituted “in the future for public purposes” for “in connection with the future construction of public works and facilities” in cl. (3).Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Section 701 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1065 is amended by striking out “in connection with the future 79 stat. 489. 42 USC 3101. construction of public works and facilities” in clause (3) and inserting in lieu thereof “in the future for public purposes”.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1968—Pub. L. 90–448 substituted “in the future for public purposes” for “in connection with the future construction of public works and facilities” in cl. (3).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title of 1970 Amendment
Pub. L. 91–431, § 1, , 84 Stat. 886, provided: “That this Act [amending sections 3102 and 3108 of this title and enacting provisions set out as a note under section 3108 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Emergency Community Facilities Act of 1970’.”
Credits
1965–1968 · 2 acts
- 1965Pub. L. 89–117, title VII, § 701, , 79 Stat. 489
- 1968Pub. L. 90–448, title VI, § 603(a), , 82 Stat. 533.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 89–117, title VII, § 701, , 79 Stat. 489; Pub. L. 90–448, title VI, § 603(a), , 82 Stat. 533.)