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[CITE: 38USC8505]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
     CHAPTER 85--DISPOSITION OF DECEASED VETERANS' PERSONAL PROPERTY
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--PROPERTY LEFT ON DEPARTMENT FACILITY
 
Sec. 8505. Sale or other disposition of property

    Any unclaimed personal property as described in section 8502 of this 
title of veterans who have heretofore died or who may hereafter die 
while maintained as such in a Department facility, and also any 
unclaimed property heretofore or hereafter found or situated in such 
facility, may be sold, used, destroyed, or otherwise disposed of in 
accordance with this subchapter, and subject to regulations promulgated 
by the Secretary pursuant hereto; and the net proceeds of sale thereof 
shall be credited and be subject to disbursement as provided in this 
subchapter.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1258, Sec. 5205; renumbered 
Sec. 8505 and amended Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), (d)(1), 
May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238, 239; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), 
(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5205 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``8502'' for ``5202''.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' and 
``Department'' for ``Veterans' Administration''.
