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[CITE: 38USC8506]

 
                      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. 8506. Notice of sale

    At least ninety days before any sale pursuant to this subchapter, 
written or printed notice thereof describing the property to be sold 
shall be mailed to the owner of the property or, if deceased, to the 
owner's executor or administrator, or to the nearest kin, if any such 
appear by the records of the Department. If none such appears from said 
records, similar notice shall be posted at the facility where the death 
occurred or property shall have been found (if in existence) and at the 
place where such property is situated at the time of such notice, and 
also at the place where probate notices are posted in the county wherein 
the sale is to be had. The person posting such notice shall make an 
affidavit setting forth the time and place of such posting and attaching 
thereto a copy of such notice, and such affidavit shall be prima facie 
evidence of such posting and admissible in evidence as proof of the 
same.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1258, Sec. 5206; Pub. L. 99-
576, title VII, Sec. 701(97), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3300; renumbered 
Sec. 8506, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(a)(3), (4), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
404.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5206 of this title as this 
section.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Department'' for ``Veterans' 
Administration''.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``the owner's'' for ``his'' before 
``executor''.
