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[CITE: 40USC73]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 73. Authorization of appropriations for expenses, and 
        acquisition of lands by Commission; assignment of playground 
        areas; control of lands outside District
        
    There is authorized to be appropriated, each year, in the annual 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, a sum not exceeding 1 cent for 
each inhabitant of the continental United States as determined by the 
last preceding decennial census, said sum to be used by said Commission 
for the payment of its expenses and for the acquisition of the lands 
herein authorized to be acquired by said Commission for the purposes 
named, the compensation for the land, the expense of surveys, 
ascertainment of title, condemnation proceedings, if any, and necessary 
conveyancing to be paid from said appropriations. The funds so 
appropriated shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia 
and the general funds of the Treasury in the same proportion as other 
expenses of the District of Columbia. The land so acquired within the 
District of Columbia shall be a part of the park system of the District 
of Columbia and be under control of the Director of the National Park 
Service. Areas suitable for playground purposes may, in the discretion 
of said Commission, be assigned to the control of the Mayor of the 
District of Columbia for playground purposes. The land so acquired 
outside the District of Columbia shall be controlled as determined by 
agreement between said commission and the proper officers of the States 
of Maryland and Virginia, such agreements to be subject to the approval 
of the President.

(June 6, 1924, ch. 270, Sec. 12, formerly Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 463; Feb. 26, 
1925, ch. 339, Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 983; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, eff. 
June 10, 1933; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 389; renumbered 
Sec. 12, July 19, 1952, ch. 949, Sec. 2, 66 Stat. 791; 1967 Reorg. Plan 
No. 3, Sec. 401, eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 
93-198, title IV, Sec. 421, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 789.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 1-2010.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Commission'', as used in this section, refers to National Capital 
Planning Commission, rather than to National Capital Park and Planning 
Commission, in view of transfer of functions, powers, etc., from latter 
to former by section 71h of this title.
    Functions of all other officers of Department of the Interior and 
functions of all agencies and employees of that Department, with two 
exceptions, transferred to Secretary of the Interior, with power vested 
in him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions by any of those officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 
Reorg. Plan No. 3, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 
1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees. National Park Service, referred to in text, is an agency of 
Department of the Interior.
    Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of National Capital 
abolished and functions thereof transferred to Office of National Parks, 
Buildings, and Reservations of Department of the Interior by Ex. Ord. 
No. 6166. Name of latter office changed to ``National Park Service'' by 
act Mar. 2, 1934.
    Act Feb. 26, 1925 ch. 339, Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 983, abolished office of 
Public Buildings and Grounds under Chief of Engineers and transferred 
functions thereof to Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks.
    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''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 71, 71h, 72, 72a, 74 of this 
title.
