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[CITE: 40USC283]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 283. Furniture for new buildings

    The furniture for all new public buildings shall be procured in 
accordance with plans and specifications approved by the Administrator 
of General Services.

(May 27, 1908, ch. 200, 35 Stat. 327; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 1, eff. 
June 10, 1933; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. 1, 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 May 27, 1908, popularly known as the 
``Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1909''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, 
including Public Buildings Administration, 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 Administrator, Public 
Buildings Administrator, and Public Buildings Administration abolished 
by section 103(b) of act June 30, 1949.
    Office of Supervising Architect of Treasury Department transferred 
to Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of Treasury 
Department under Ex. Ord. No. 6166. 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.
