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[CITE: 40USC421]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
       CHAPTER 8--EMERGENCY PUBLIC WORKS AND CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
 
       SUBCHAPTER II--SLUM CLEARANCE AND LOW COST HOUSING PROJECTS
 
Sec. 421. Jurisdiction of State or political subdivision; civil 
        rights under local law preserved
        
    The acquisition by the United States of any real property in 
connection with any low-cost housing, or slum-clearance project 
constructed with funds allotted to the Administrator of General Services 
pursuant to any law, shall not be held to deprive any State or political 
subdivision thereof of its civil and criminal jurisdiction in and over 
such property, or to impair the civil rights under the local law of the 
tenants or inhabitants on such property; and insofar as any such 
jurisdiction has been taken away from any such State or subdivision, or 
any such rights have been impaired, jurisdiction over any such property 
is ceded back to such State or subdivision.

(June 29, 1936, ch. 860, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 2025; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, 
Secs. 301, 305, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, 1428; Ex. 
Ord. No. 9357, eff. June 30, 1943, 8 F.R. 9041; 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.
    Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works consolidated into 
Federal Works Agency to be administered as Public Works Administration 
by Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939. Functions of Public Works Administration 
and Commissioner of Public Works in Federal Works Agency transferred to 
Federal Works Administrator by Ex. Ord. No. 9357.

                 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 423, 424, 425 of this title.
