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[CITE: 40USC42]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 42. Rooms and accommodations for Office of Personnel 
        Management
        
    It shall be the duty of the Administrator of General Services to 
cause suitable and convenient rooms and accommodations to be assigned or 
provided, and to be furnished, heated, and lighted, at the city of 
Washington, for carrying on the work of the Office of Personnel 
Management and the examinations provided for in sections 3304 and 3305 
of title 5, and to cause the necessary stationery and other articles to 
be supplied and the necessary printing to be done for the said Office.

(Jan. 16, 1883, ch. 27, Sec. 4, 22 Stat. 405; May 29, 1920, ch. 214, 41 
Stat. 642; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 18, Secs. 1, 2, eff. July 1, 1950, 15 
F.R. 3177, 64 Stat. 1270; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 102, eff. Jan. 1, 
1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783.)

                          Codification

    The words ``the examinations provided for in sections 3304 and 3305 
of title 5'' were substituted for ``said examinations'', meaning the 
examinations provided for in section 3 of act Jan. 16, 1883, to reflect 
the enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. 
L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.


                               Amendments

    1920--Act May 29, 1920, transferred the duty under this section, as 
enacted originally, from the Secretary of the Interior to the Civil 
Service Commission.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Office of Personnel Management'' and ``said Office'' substituted 
in text for ``Civil Service Commission'' and ``said commission'', 
respectively, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, Sec. 102, 43 F.R. 
36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by 
statute in Civil Service Commission to Director of Office of Personnel 
Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as 
provided by section 1-102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 
1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.
    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), and functions with respect to operation, 
maintenance, and custody of office buildings owned by Government and of 
office buildings or parts thereof acquired by lease, including those 
post-office buildings which, as determined by Director of Bureau of the 
Budget, are not used predominantly for post-office purposes, 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.


                            Cross References

    Contracts for rent precluded until specific appropriations therefor 
are made, see section 34 of this title.
    Operation of buildings and related activities by Administrator of 
General Services, general powers and duties, see section 490 of this 
title.
    Office of Personnel Management, organization of, see section 1101 et 
seq. of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
