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[CITE: 40USC82]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 82. Public spaces resulting from filling of canals under 
        jurisdiction of Director
        
    All public spaces resulting from the filling of canals in the 
original city of Washington not under the jurisdiction of the Director 
of the National Park Service as of August 1, 1914, except such portions 
as are included in the navy yard or in actual use as roadways and 
sidewalks, and except the portions assigned by law to the District of 
Columbia for use as a property yard and the location of a sewage pumping 
station, respectively, are placed under the jurisdiction of the Director 
of the National Park Service and shall be laid out as reservations as a 
part of the park system of the District of Columbia.

(Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 223, 38 Stat. 633; Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 339, Sec. 3, 43 
Stat. 983; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, eff. June 10, 1933; Mar. 2, 1934, ch. 38, 
48 Stat. 389.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 8-139.
    Section is based on Sundry Civil Appropriation Act Aug. 1, 1914, 
fiscal year 1915.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions from Chief of Engineers of United States 
Army to Director of National Park Service by act Feb. 26, 1925, Ex. Ord. 
No. 6166, and by act Mar. 2, 1934, see note set out under section 73 of 
this title.
