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[CITE: 40USC304c]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 304c. Payment by agencies of rent, repairs, alterations, 
        maintenance, operation, and moving costs
        
    To the extent that the appropriations of the General Services 
Administration not otherwise required are inadequate therefor, the 
Administrator of General Services may require each Federal agency to 
which leased space has been assigned to pay promptly by check to the 
Administrator of General Services out of its available appropriations, 
either in advance or during occupancy of such space, all or part of the 
estimated cost of rent, repairs, alterations, maintenance, operation, 
and moving: Provided, That when space in a building is occupied by two 
or more agencies, the Administrator of General Services shall determine 
and equitably apportion rental, operation, and other charges on the 
basis of the total amount of space so leased.

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 744, Sec. 3, 49 Stat. 886; July 18, 1940, ch. 635, 
Sec. 3, 54 Stat. 765; June 14, 1946, ch. 404, Sec. 4, 60 Stat. 257; June 
30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 85-493, 
Sec. 2, July 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 294.)


                               Amendments

    1958--Pub. L. 85-493 struck out provisions which authorized leasing 
of space outside of District of Columbia for periods not in excess of 
five years, which provisions are now covered by section 490 of this 
title.
    1946--Act June 14, 1946, substituted provision which authorized 
Commissioner of Public Buildings to require each Federal agency to pay 
the estimated cost of rental, repair, etc. of leased space assigned to 
that agency and to equitably apportion the charges when two or more 
agencies occupy the same space for provision which authorized the 
Director of Procurement to procure space for agencies in the same manner 
authorized by section 304a of this title and to require these agencies 
to pay the total expense required in the manner specified by section 
304b of this title.
    1940--Act July 18, 1940, substituted ``Commissioner of Public 
Buildings'' and ``Federal Works Administrator'' for ``Director of 
Procurement'' and ``Secretary of the Treasury'', respectively.

                    Transfer of Functions; Exceptions

    Functions with respect to acquiring space in buildings by lease, 
functions with respect to assigning and reassigning space in buildings 
for use by agencies (including both space acquired by lease and space in 
Government-owned buildings), with certain exceptions, transferred from 
respective agencies in which theretofore vested to Administrator of 
General Services by sections 1 and 2 of Reorg. Plan No. 18 of 1950, eff. 
July 1, 1950, 15 F.R. 3177, 64 Stat. 1270, set out as a note under 
section 490 of this title. For delegation of those transferred functions 
to other personnel of General Services Administration, or to heads and 
personnel of other agencies, and for transfer of personnel, property, 
records, and funds, see sections 3 and 4 of that Plan.
    Functions of office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public 
Buildings Administration 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. Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings 
and Public Buildings Administration 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.


                            Cross References

    Section inapplicable to lease-purchase contracts, see section 356 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 304a-1, 304a-2, 304d, 304e, 
356 of this title; title 16 section 459t.
