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[CITE: 40USC279]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 279. Appropriations for buildings available for use in 
        temporary rented quarters
        
    Unless otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever the 
Administrator of General Services is authorized to secure temporary 
quarters for the use of Government officials pending the alteration, 
improvement, or repairs to, or the remodeling, reconstruction, or 
enlargement of, any public building belonging to the United States under 
the control of the Administrator of General Services the appropriation 
for vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings shall be available, if 
necessary, in connection with such portions of the premises as may be 
rented for or occupied by such officials in the same manner, for the 
same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises 
were vested in the United States.

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1483, 33 Stat. 1161; 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 Sundry Civil Appropriation Act Mar. 3, 1905, 
fiscal year 1906.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, 
together with functions of Federal Works Administrator 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. Federal Works 
Agency and office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section 
103(b) of act June 30, 1949.
    ``Federal Works Agency,'' as formerly used in this section, 
originally read ``Treasury Department,'' and ``Federal Works 
Administrator'' originally read ``Secretary of the Treasury.'' By Reorg. 
Plan No. I of 1939, Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of 
Treasury Department transferred to Public Buildings Administration, 
Federal Works Agency, and functions of Secretary of the Treasury 
relating to Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division and to 
selection of location and sites for public buildings transferred to 
Federal Works Administrator.

                 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, set out as an Effective Date note 
under section 471 of this title.
