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[CITE: 40USC74b]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 74b. Sale to highest bidder; rights of abutting owner

    In selling any parcel of land under sections 72c to 72e and 74a to 
74c said Secretary shall cause such public or private solicitation for 
bids or offers to be made as he may deem appropriate, and shall sell the 
parcel to the party agreeing to pay the highest price therefor if such 
price is otherwise satisfactory: Provided, That in the event the price 
offered or bid by the owner of any lands abutting the lands to be sold 
equals the highest price offered or bid by any other party, the parcel 
may be sold to such abutting owner.

(Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, Sec. 5, 53 Stat. 1211.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-405.


                                 Repeals

    For repeal, see note under section 74a of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 72e of this title.
