
From the U.S. Code Online via GPO Access
[wais.access.gpo.gov]
[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 40USC535]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
       CHAPTER 10--MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
 
                  SUBCHAPTER V--URBAN LAND UTILIZATION
 
Sec. 535. Definitions

    As used in this subchapter--
    (a) ``Unit of general local government'' means any city, county, 
town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of 
a State.
    (b) ``Urban area'' means--
        (1) any geographical area within the jurisdiction of any 
    incorporated city, town, borough, village, or other unit of general 
    local government, except county or parish, having a population of 
    ten thousand or more inhabitants;
        (2) that portion of the geographical area within the 
    jurisdiction of any county, town, township, or similar governmental 
    entity which contains no incorporated unit of general local 
    government but has a population density equal to or exceeding one 
    thousand five hundred inhabitants per square mile; and
        (3) that portion of any geographical area having a population 
    density equal to or exceeding one thousand five hundred inhabitants 
    per square mile and situated adjacent to the boundary of any 
    incorporated unit of general local government which has a population 
    of ten thousand or more inhabitants.

    (c) ``Comprehensive planning'' includes the following, to the extent 
directly related to the needs of a unit of general local government:
        (1) Preparation, as a guide for governmental policies and 
    action, of general plans with respect to (A) the pattern and 
    intensity of land use, (B) the provision of public facilities 
    (including transportation facilities) and other governmental 
    services, and (C) the effective development and utilization of human 
    and natural resources;
        (2) Long-range physical and fiscal plans for such action;
        (3) Programing of capital improvements and other major 
    expenditures, based on a determination of relative urgency, together 
    with definitive financing plans for such expenditures in the earlier 
    years of the program;
        (4) Coordination of all related plans and activities of the 
    State and local governments and agencies concerned; and
        (5) Preparation of regulatory and administrative measures in 
    support of the foregoing.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VIII, Sec. 806, as added Pub. L. 90-577, 
title V, Sec. 501, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1105.)
