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[CITE: 40USC285]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 285. Buildings under control of Administrator of General 
        Services
        
    All courthouses, customhouses, appraiser's stores, barge offices, 
and other public buildings outside of the District of Columbia and 
outside of military reservations which have been purchased or erected, 
or are in course of construction, or which may be erected or purchased 
out of any appropriation under the control of the Administrator of 
General Services, together with the site or sites thereof, are expressly 
declared to be under the exclusive jurisdiction and control and in the 
custody of the Administrator of General Services, who shall have full 
power to take possession of and assign and reassign rooms therein to 
such Federal officials, clerks, and employees as in his judgment and 
discretion should be furnished with offices or rooms therein.

(July 1, 1898, ch. 546, Sec. 1, 30 Stat. 614; May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 
Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 654; 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 July 1, 1898, popularly known as the 
``Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1899''.
    Originally this section contained, among the buildings mentioned, 
reference to subtreasuries and post offices. Act May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 
Sec. 1, 41 Stat. 654, discontinued subtreasuries.

                          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.
    Ex. Ord. No. 6166 transferred administration of post office 
buildings to Post Office Department.
    ``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.
