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[CITE: 40USC253]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 253. Detail of members of field force of General Services 
        Administration
        
    On and after June 23, 1913, members of the field force of the 
General Services Administration, such as supervising superintendents, 
superintendents, junior superintendents, and inspectors of the several 
classes, may be detailed to the District of Columbia, in the discretion 
of the Administrator of General Services, for temporary duty for periods 
not exceeding thirty days in any one case, in the General Services 
Administration, but no subsistence or other expenses of like character 
shall be allowed such employees while on duty in Washington serving 
under such details.

(June 23, 1913, ch. 3, 38 Stat. 17; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, eff. June 
10, 1933; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, Secs. 301, 303, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 
F.R. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, 1427; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, 
Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on act June 23, 1913, popularly known as the 
``Sundry Civil Appropriation Act June 23, 1913, fiscal year 1914''.
    Section originally provided that members of the field force of the 
public buildings service in the Treasury Department could be detailed to 
the District of Columbia in the discretion of the Secretary of the 
Treasury, for duty in the Office of the Supervising Architect in the 
Treasury Department.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public 
Buildings Administration transferred to Administrator of General 
Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to 
section 753(a) of this title. Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings 
and Public Buildings Administration abolished by section 103(b) of act 
June 30, 1949. Public Buildings Service, within General Services 
Administration, established on December 11, 1949, by Administrator of 
General Services, to perform those transferred functions.
    Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of Treasury 
Department transferred to Public Buildings Administration in Federal 
Works Agency by Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939.
    Office of Supervising Architect in Treasury Department transferred 
to Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of Treasury 
Department by Ex. Ord. No. 6166.

                 Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, 
see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 403, set out as 
an Effective Date note under section 471 of this title.
