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[CITE: 42USC1501]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
        CHAPTER 9--HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--PROJECTS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1501. Cooperation between departments; definitions; 
        limitation of projects
        
    In connection with the national defense program, the Departments of 
the Navy, Army, and Air Force and the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development are authorized to cooperate in making necessary housing 
available for persons engaged in national defense activities, as 
provided in this subchapter. ``Persons engaged in national defense 
activities'' (as that term is used in this subchapter) shall include (i) 
enlisted men with families, who are in the naval and military service 
and officers of the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps not above the 
grade of captain, and officers of the Navy and Coast Guard, not above 
the grade of lieutenant and employees of the Departments of the Navy, 
Army, and Air Force who are assigned to duty at naval or military 
reservations, posts, or bases, and (ii) workers with families, who are 
engaged or to be engaged in industries connected with and essential to 
the national defense program. No project shall be developed or assisted 
for the purposes of this subchapter except with the approval of the 
President and upon a determination by him that there is an acute 
shortage of housing in the locality involved which impedes the national 
defense program.

(June 28, 1940, ch. 440, title II, Sec. 201, 54 Stat. 681; Oct. 26, 
1942, ch. 626, Sec. 1(a), 56 Stat. 988; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title 
II, Secs. 205(a), 207(a), (f), 61 Stat. 501-503; 1947 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 4(a), eff. July 27, 1947, 12 F.R. 4981, 61 Stat. 955; Pub. L. 89-
174, Sec. 5(a), Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 669.)


                               Amendments

    1942--Act Oct. 26, 1942, substituted ``and officers of the Army and 
Marine Corps not above the grade of captain, and officers of the Navy 
and Coast Guard, not above the grade of lieutenant'' for ``(excluding 
officers)''.

                         Change of Name

    Department of the Air Force inserted to conform to section 207(a), 
(f) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501, 502, and 
Secretary of Defense Transfer Orders No. 14, eff. July 1, 1948, and No. 
40 [App. B (123)], July 22, 1949. Department of War designated 
Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to 
Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of such act July 26, 1947. 
Sections 205(a) and 207(a), (f) of act July 26, 1947, were repealed by 
section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of 
act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10, Armed Forces'', which in sections 
3010 to 3013 and 8010 to 8013 continued Departments of Army and Air 
Force under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army and 
Secretary of the Air Force, respectively.


                      Short Title of 1951 Amendment

    Act Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, Sec. 1, 65 Stat. 293, provided: ``That 
this Act [enacting sections 1507, 1589a, 1589b, and 1591 to 1593e of 
this title, sections 1701g-1 to 1701g-3, 1701i-1, 1715g, 1715h, 1716a, 
1748g-1, 1750, 1750a, and 1750b to 1750g of Title 12, Banks and Banking, 
section 2136 of the Appendix to Title 50, War and National Defense, 
amended sections 1584 and 1585 of this title, sections 371, 1430, 1701g, 
1701j, 1702, 1706, 1710, 1713, 1715c, 1715d, 1715f, 1716, 1743, 1747a, 
1747f, and 1747l, 1748b of Title 12, section 2135 of Title 50, App., and 
enacted provisions set out as notes under section 1591 of this title and 
section 1748b of Title 12] may be cited as the `Defense Housing and 
Community Facilities and Services Act'.''


                               Short Title

    Act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, 54 Stat. 1125, which is classified to 
subchapters II to VII of this chapter, is popularly known as the 
``Lanham Public War Housing Act''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Public Housing Administration and Housing and Home 
Finance Agency (of which Public Housing Administration was a constituent 
agency) and of heads thereof transferred to Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development by Pub. L. 89-174, Sec. 5(a), Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 
669, which is classified to section 3534(a) of this title. Section 9(c) 
of such act, set out as a note under section 3531 of this title, 
provided that references to Housing and Home Finance Agency or to any 
agency or officer therein are to be deemed to mean Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development and that Housing and Home Finance Agency and 
Public Housing Administration have lapsed.
    United States Housing Authority consolidated into Housing and Home 
Finance Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1947, Sec. 1, eff. July 27, 1947, 
12 F.R. 4981, 61 Stat. 954, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees, and name of Authority changed to 
Public Housing Administration by section 4(a) of such Plan. Section 9 of 
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1947 abolished office of Administrator of United 
States Housing Authority, whose functions were transferred by section 4 
of such Plan to Public Housing Commissioner.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1502 of this title.
