§ 1971. Transfer of surplus personal property owned by United States

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. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–597 title IV § 402 · 94 Stat. 3477

   Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1971

   Pub. L. 96–597, title IV, § 402, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3478

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 96–597, title IV, § 402, Dec. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 3478

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 402. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject to valid existing rights, and subject to subsection (b) of this section, all right, title, and interest of the Government of the United States in personal property situated in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and of the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in personal property wherever located shall be transferred, without reimbursement, by October 1, 1982, to the government of the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, the Marshall Islands, or the Federated States of Micronesia according to a list of distribution established by the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in consultation with the recipient government. (d) Personal property referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be transferred upon declaration by the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands that such property is surplus to the needs of the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which declaration shall be approved, if applicable, by the head of the agency of the Government of the United States having administrative responsibility for the property. (c) If no government exists in Palau at the time of enactment of this section that is capable of receiving title to such property in its own name, the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall hold such property in trust for the prospective government of Palau until such government is established.

2. 1982

   Pub. L. 97–357 title II § 201 · 96 Stat. 1705

   Substituted · 48 U.S.C. § 1971(a)

   Pub. L. 97–357, substituted “by a date not later than ninety days following termination of the trusteeship agreement governing the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,” for “by October 1, 1982,”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–357, substituted “by a date not later than ninety days following termination of the trusteeship agreement governing the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,” for “by October 1, 1982,”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 201. In section 402(a) of Public Law 96–597 (94 Stat. 3478) 48 USC 1681 note. strike “by October 1, 1982,” and insert in lieu thereof: “by a date not later than ninety days following termination of the trusteeship agreement governing the administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,”.

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