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[CITE: 40USC304a-1]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 304a-1. Expenses of sale; maintenance

    There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be 
necessary to cover the costs incident to the sale or lease of real 
property, or demolition of buildings thereon as hereinafter authorized, 
which have been or may hereafter be declared surplus to the needs of any 
Federal agency in accordance with the provisions of sections 304a to 
304e of this title, and the care, maintenance, and protection thereof, 
including, but not limited to pay of employees, travel of Government 
employees, brokers' fees not in excess of rates paid for similar 
services in the community where the property is situated, appraisals, 
photographs, surveys, evidence of title and perfecting of defective 
titles, advertising, and telephone and telegraph charges: Provided, 
however, That a Federal agency shall remain responsible for the proper 
care, maintenance, and protection of the aforesaid property, 
notwithstanding any declaration that the same is in excess of its needs 
until such time as custody is assumed by the Administrator of General 
Services or other disposition is made thereof.

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 744, Sec. 6, as added July 18, 1940, ch. 635, 
Sec. 2, 54 Stat. 764; amended June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, 
Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

                          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.

                 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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 304a-2, 304d, 304e of this 
title.
