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[CITE: 40USC270c]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 270c. Right of person furnishing labor or material to copy 
        of bond
        
    The department secretary or agency head of the contracting agency is 
authorized and directed to furnish, to any person making application 
therefor who submits an affidavit that he has supplied labor or 
materials for such work and payment therefor has not been made or that 
he is being sued on any such bond, a certified copy of such bond and the 
contract for which it was given, which copy shall be prima facie 
evidence of the contents, execution, and delivery of the original. 
Applicants shall pay for such certified copies such fees as the 
department secretary or agency head of the contracting agency fixes to 
cover the cost of preparation thereof.

(Aug. 24, 1935, ch. 642, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 794; Pub. L. 86-135, Sec. 2, 
Aug. 4, 1959, 73 Stat. 279; Pub. L. 98-269, Apr. 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 
156.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Pub. L. 98-269 substituted ``department secretary or agency 
head of the contracting agency'' for ``Comptroller General'' in two 
places.
    1959--Pub. L. 86-135 struck out ``, and, in case final settlement of 
such contract, has been made, a certified statement of the date of such 
settlement, which shall be conclusive as to such date upon the parties'' 
and ``and certified statements'' after ``original'' and ``certified 
copies'', respectively.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective upon expiration of sixty days after Aug. 24, 1935, 
but not applicable to any contract awarded pursuant to any invitation 
for bids issued on or before the date it takes effect, or to any persons 
or bonds in respect of any such contract, see section 7 of act Aug. 24, 
1935, set out as a note under section 270a of this title.


                           Retroactive Effect

    Rights of laborers and material men under contracts entered into 
before Aug. 4, 1959, unaffected, see section 3 of Pub. L. 86-135, set 
out as a note under section 270b of this title.


                    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Proof of official records, see rule 44, Title 28, Appendix, 
Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
    Effect of rule 44 on this section, see note by Advisory Committee 
under that rule.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 270b, 270d, 270d-1, 270e, 
270f of this title; title 10 section 2701; title 15 section 636; title 
25 sections 47a, 1656; title 31 section 9303; title 39 section 410; 
title 42 sections 9619, 11707.
