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[CITE: 40USC72b]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 72b. Lease of lands acquired for park, parkway, or 
        playground purposes
        
    The Administrator of General Services is authorized, subject to the 
approval of the National Capital Planning Commission, to lease, for a 
term not exceeding five years, and to renew such lease, subject to such 
approval, for an additional term not exceeding five years, pending need 
for their immediate use in other ways by the public, and on such terms 
as the Administrator shall determine, land or any existing building or 
structure on land acquired for park, parkway, or playground purposes.

(Dec. 22, 1928, ch. 48, Sec. 2, 45 Stat. 1070; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 2, eff. June 10, 1933; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389; 
1939 Reorg. Plan No. 1, Sec. 303(b), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2729, 53 
Stat. 1427; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; 
June 6, 1924, ch. 279, Sec. 9, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, Sec. 1, 
66 Stat. 790.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 8-103.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``National Capital Planning Commission'' substituted in text for 
``National Capital Park and Planning Commission'', on authority of act 
June 6, 1924, ch. 270, Sec. 9, as added July 19, 1952, which transferred 
functions of latter to former. See section 71h of this title and 
Transfer of Functions note thereunder.
    ``Administrator of General Services'' substituted in text for 
``Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National 
Capital''. See Transfer of Functions note set out under section 19 of 
this title.
