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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 41USC23]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 23. Orders or contracts for material placed with 
        Government-owned establishments deemed obligations
        
    All orders or contracts for work or material or for the manufacture 
of material pertaining to approved projects heretofore or hereafter 
placed with Government-owned establishments shall be considered as 
obligations in the same manner as provided for similar orders or 
contracts placed with commercial manufacturers or private contractors, 
and the appropriations shall remain available for the payment of the 
obligations so created as in the case of contracts or orders with 
commercial manufacturers or private contractors.

(June 5, 1920, ch. 240, 41 Stat. 975; July 1, 1922, ch. 259, 42 Stat. 
812; June 2, 1937, ch. 293, 50 Stat. 245.)

                          Codification

    Section is a composite of acts June 5, 1920, ch. 240, and July 1, 
1922, ch. 259. The words ``for work or material'' after ``All orders or 
contracts'', ``or contracts'' after ``similar orders'', and ``or private 
contractors'' after ``commercial manufacturers'' in two places are based 
on act July 1, 1922.


                               Amendments

    1937--Act June 2, 1937, continued this section in effect.
