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[CITE: 40USC13a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 13a. United States Supreme Court Building


(a) Structural and mechanical care; care and maintenance of grounds; 
        direction of operations, maintenance and repairs; contract 
        authority

    The Architect of the Capitol shall have charge of the structural and 
mechanical care of the United States Supreme Court Building, including 
the care and maintenance of the grounds, and the supplying of all 
mechanical furnishings and mechanical equipment for the building. The 
operation and maintenance of the mechanical equipment and repair of the 
building shall be performed under his direction and he is authorized to 
enter into all necessary contracts.

(b) Heating and air-conditioning refrigeration expenses; deposits in 
        Treasury of advancements to credit of Capitol Power Plant; 
        electrical energy purchases

    In addition to the foregoing, any funds hereafter appropriated under 
authority of sections 13a to 13c of this title shall be available also 
for expenses of heating and air-conditioning refrigeration supplied by 
the Capitol Power Plant, advancements for which shall be made and 
deposited in the Treasury to the credit of appropriations hereafter 
provided for the Capitol Power Plant; and for the purchase of electrical 
energy.

(May 7, 1934, ch. 222, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 668; Pub. L. 95-431, title IV, 
Oct. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 1036.)

                          Codification

    Existing provisions were editorially designated subsec. (a) in view 
of amendment by Pub. L. 95-431 which added subsec. (b) without 
designating existing provisions as subsec. (a).


                               Amendments

    1978--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-431 added subsec. (b).


                      Care of Building and Grounds

    Pub. L. 101-162, title IV, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1010, provided: 
``That for fiscal year 1990 and hereafter, funds appropriated under this 
heading [Supreme Court of the United States and care of the building and 
grounds] shall be available for improvements, maintenance, repairs, 
equipment, supplies, materials, and appurtenances; special clothing for 
workmen; and personal and other services (including temporary labor 
without regard to the Classification and Retirement Acts, as amended); 
and for snow removal by hire of men and equipment or under contract, and 
for the replacement of electrical transformers containing 
polychlorinated biphenyls, both without compliance with section 3709 of 
the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5).''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 13b, 1204 of this title.
