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[CITE: 3USC101]

 
                         TITLE 3--THE PRESIDENT
 
             CHAPTER 2--OFFICE AND COMPENSATION OF PRESIDENT
 
Sec. 101. Commencement of term of office

    The term of four years for which a President and Vice President 
shall be elected, shall, in all cases, commence on the 20th day of 
January next succeeding the day on which the votes of the electors have 
been given.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678.)


                      Short Title of 2000 Amendment

    Pub. L. 106-293, Sec. 1, Oct. 12, 2000, 114 Stat. 1035, provided 
that: ``This Act [amending provisions set out as a note under section 
102 of this title] may be cited as the `Presidential Transition Act of 
2000'.''


             Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building

    Pub. L. 106-92, Nov. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1309, provided that:
``SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER EXECUTIVE OFFICE 
        BUILDING.
    ``The Old Executive Office Building located at 17th Street and 
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be 
known and designated as the `Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office 
Building'.
``SEC. 2. REFERENCES.
    ``Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the building referred to in section 1 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the `Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive 
Office Building'.''
    Pub. L. 100-461, title V, Sec. 590, Oct. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2268-52, 
as amended by Pub. L. 106-92, Sec. 2, Nov. 9, 1999, 113 Stat. 1309, 
provided that:
    ``(a) Acceptance of Gifts of Money and Property.--The Director of 
the Office of Administration is authorized to--
        ``(1) accept, hold, administer, utilize and sell gifts and 
    bequests of property, both real and personal, and loans of personal 
    property other than money; and
        ``(2) accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services;
for the purpose of aiding, benefiting, or facilitating the work of 
preservation, restoration, renovation, rehabilitation, or historic 
furnishing of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building and the 
grounds thereof.
    ``(b) Establishment of Fund.--There is established in the Treasury a 
fund for use in accordance with the provisions of this section. Amounts 
of money and proceeds from the sale of property accepted under 
subsection (a) shall be deposited in the fund, which shall be available 
to the Director of the Office of Administration. Such funds shall be 
held in trust by the Secretary of the Treasury.
    ``(c) Use of Fund.--Property accepted pursuant to this section or 
the proceeds from the sale thereof, shall be used as nearly as possible 
in accordance with the terms of the gift or bequest. Any use or sale of 
property accepted pursuant to this section, and any use of proceeds from 
such sale, shall be subject to the disapproval of the Administrator of 
General Services within 30 days after the Administrator receives notice 
of such use or sale. The Director of the Office of Administration shall 
not accept any gift under this section that is expressly conditioned on 
any expenditure not to be met from the gift itself unless such 
expenditure has been approved by an Act of Congress.
    ``(d) Taxes.--For the purpose of the Federal income, estate, and 
gift tax laws, property accepted under this section shall be considered 
as a gift, bequest, or devise to the United States.''


      President's Advisory Commission on Presidential Office Space

    Act Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 925, 70 Stat. 979, as amended by Pub. L. 85-3, 
Jan. 25, 1957, 71 Stat. 4, created a President's Advisory Commission on 
Presidential Office Space to study the problem of providing more 
adequate office space for the White House Office and the other agencies 
of the Executive Office of the President. Pursuant to section 1(b) of 
act Aug. 3, 1956, the Commission was required to report to the President 
its findings and recommendations within 10 months after Aug. 3, 1956, 
and section 2(g) of act Aug. 3, 1956, provided that the Commission 
should cease to exist 30 days after the submission of its final report.
