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[CITE: 38USC8522]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
            PART VI--ACQUISITION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY
 
     CHAPTER 85--DISPOSITION OF DECEASED VETERANS' PERSONAL PROPERTY
 
        SUBCHAPTER II--DEATH WHILE PATIENT OF DEPARTMENT FACILITY
 
Sec. 8522. Sale of assets accruing to the Fund

    Any assets heretofore or hereafter accruing to the benefit of the 
Fund, other than money, but including jewelry and other personal 
effects, may be sold at the times and places and in the manner 
prescribed by regulations issued by the Secretary. Upon receipt of the 
purchase price the Secretary is authorized to deliver at the place of 
sale, said property sold, and upon request to execute and deliver 
appropriate assignments or other conveyances thereof in the name of the 
United States, which shall pass to the purchaser such title as decedent 
had at date of death. The net proceeds after paying any proper sales 
expense as determined by the Secretary shall forthwith be paid to the 
Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the Fund; and may be 
disbursed as are other moneys in the Fund by the Division of 
Disbursements, Treasury Department, upon order of said Secretary. 
Articles of personal adornment which are obviously of sentimental value, 
shall be retained and not sold or otherwise disposed of until the 
expiration of five years from the date of death of the veteran, without 
a claim therefor, unless for sanitary or other proper reasons it is 
deemed unsafe to retain same, in which event they may be destroyed 
forthwith. Any other articles coming into possession of the Secretary or 
the Secretary's representative by virtue of this subchapter which, under 
regulations promulgated by the Secretary, are determined to be unsalable 
may be destroyed forthwith or at the time prescribed by regulations, or 
may be used for the purposes for which disbursements might properly be 
made from the Fund, or if not usable, otherwise disposed of in 
accordance with regulations.

(Pub. L. 85-857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1260, Sec. 5222; Pub. L. 99-
576, title VII, Sec. 701(101), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3300; renumbered 
Sec. 8522, Pub. L. 102-40, title IV, Sec. 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 
Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 
404, 405.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-40 renumbered section 5222 of this title as this 
section.
    Pub. L. 102-83 substituted ``Secretary'' for ``Administrator'' and 
``Secretary's'' for ``Administrator's'' wherever appearing.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-576 substituted ``the Administrator'' for ``he'' in 
second sentence, and ``the Administrator's'' for ``his'' in last 
sentence.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Division of Disbursements of Treasury Department consolidated into 
Fiscal Service of Treasury Department by section 1(a)(1) of Reorg. Plan 
No. III of 1940, eff. June 30, 1940, 5 F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1231, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See 
section 306 of Title 31, Money and Finance.
