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[CITE: 40USC304i]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 304i. Disposition of property subject to pending court 
        proceedings for forfeiture
        
    In the event that proceedings are or have been commenced for the 
forfeiture of any property by court decree, the agency which seized such 
property shall forthwith notify the Administrator and may at the same 
time file with him a request for such property for its official use. The 
Administrator shall, before entry of a decree, apply to the court to 
order delivery of such property--
        (a) to the agency filing such request; or
        (b) if no such request has been filed, to any other agency which 
    requests and in the judgment of the Administrator should be given 
    such property; or
        (c) if the agency which seized such property has not requested 
    it, and no other agency has requested and in the judgment of the 
    Administrator should be given such property, and if in the judgment 
    of the Administrator the property may later become necessary to any 
    agency for official use, to the seizing agency to be retained in its 
    custody. Thereafter, the Administrator shall, within a reasonable 
    time, order such agency to deliver the property to any other agency 
    which requests and in his judgment should be given such property, or 
    to dispose of it as otherwise provided by law,

and if forfeiture thereof is decreed, the court shall, in the event that 
the property is not ordered by competent authority to be returned to any 
claimant, order delivery accordingly. All the property for which no such 
application is made shall be disposed of by the court in accordance with 
law.

(Aug. 27, 1935, ch. 740, title III, Sec. 304, 49 Stat. 880; June 30, 
1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 102(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Director of Bureau of Federal Supply transferred to 
Administrator of General Services and office of Director abolished by 
section 102(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to section 752 
of this title.

                 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 304f, 304j, 304k, 304l, 304m 
of this title; title 18 section 3668.
