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[CITE: 40USC72c]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 72c. Power to sell lands

    The Mayor of the District of Columbia, with the approval of the 
National Capital Planning Commission, is authorized and empowered in his 
discretion, for the best interests of the District of Columbia, to sell 
and convey, in whole or in part, to the highest bidder at public or 
private sale, real estate now or hereafter owned in fee simple by the 
District of Columbia for municipal use, in the District of Columbia, 
which the Council of the District of Columbia and the National Capital 
Planning Commission find to be no longer required for public purposes.

(Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, Sec. 1, 53 Stat. 1211; June 6, 1924, ch. 279, 
Sec. 9, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, Sec. 1, 66 Stat. 790; 1967 
Reorg. Plan No. 3, Secs. 401, 402(192), eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 32 F.R. 
11669, 81 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 93-198, title IV, Secs. 401, 421, Dec. 24, 
1973, 87 Stat. 785, 789.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-401.


                                 Repeals

    Section 7 of act Aug. 5, 1939, repealed all acts and parts of acts 
inconsistent or in conflict therewith.

                          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.
    Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, functions 
of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred to 
Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 
of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, 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, and 
replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 421 of 
Pub. L. 93-198, classified to section 1-241 of the District of Columbia 
Code. Accordingly, ``Mayor'' substituted in text for ``commissioners''.
    Function of Board of Commissioners to find that real estate is no 
longer required for a public purpose transferred to District of Columbia 
Council pursuant to section 402(192) of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967.
    ``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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 72e, 74b of this title.
