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[CITE: 40USC53a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 53a. MacArthur Boulevard; jurisdiction and control

    Jurisdiction and control over MacArthur Boulevard for its full width 
in the District of Columbia between Foxhall Road and the District line, 
excepting a strip nineteen feet wide within the lines of said road, the 
center of which is coincident with the center of the water supply 
conduit, is transferred from the Secretary of the Army to the Council of 
the District of Columbia, and property abutting thereon shall be subject 
to any and all lawful assessments which may be levied by the said 
council for public improvements, the same as other private property in 
the District of Columbia: Provided, That all municipal laws and 
regulations shall apply to the entire width of the said road in the 
District of Columbia in the same degree that they apply to other streets 
and highways in the said District.

(May 22, 1926, ch. 372, 44 Stat. 627; Mar. 4, 1942, ch. 129, 56 Stat. 
123; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat. 501; 1967 
Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 402(172), eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 
Stat. 951; Pub. L. 93-198, title IV, Sec. 401, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 
785.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 7-1401.


                               Amendments

    1942--Act Mar. 4, 1942, changed name of Conduit Road to MacArthur 
Boulevard.

                         Change of Name

    Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of 
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of 
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, 
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of 
the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Council of the District of Columbia'' substituted in text for 
``District of Columbia Council'' pursuant to section 401 of Pub. L. 93-
198. District of Columbia Council, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93-198, title 
VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, classified to section 1-211 
of the District of Columbia Code, and replaced by Council of District of 
Columbia, as provided by section 401 of Pub. L. 93-198, classified to 
section 1-221 of the District of Columbia Code.
    Previously, reference to the Board of Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia had been changed to the District of Columbia Council 
pursuant to section 402(172) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, 32 
F.R. 11669, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, which transferred the regulatory and other functions of 
the Board of Commissioners relating to the jurisdiction and control over 
MacArthur Boulevard (formerly Conduit Road) and the levying of 
assessments for public improvements under this section to the District 
of Columbia Council, subject to the right of the Commissioner as 
provided by section 406 of the Plan. For provisions establishing the 
District of Columbia Council, see section 201 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1967.
