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[CITE: 42USC1506]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
        CHAPTER 9--HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--PROJECTS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 1506. Administration of utilities and utility services; 
        granting of easements
        
    (a) Any Federal agency (including any wholly owned Government 
corporation) administering utility installations connected to a utility 
system for housing under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development is authorized--
        (1) to continue to provide utilities and utility services to 
    such housing as long as it is under the jurisdiction of the 
    Secretary;
        (2) to contract with the purchasers or transferees of such 
    housing to continue the utility connection with such installations 
    and furnish such utilities and services as may be available and 
    needed in connection with such housing, for such period of time (not 
    exceeding the period of Federal administration of such 
    installations) and subject to such terms (including the payment of 
    the pro rata cost to the Government or the market value of the 
    utilities and services furnished, whichever is greater) as may be 
    determined by the head of the agency;
        (3) to dispose of such installations, when excess to the needs 
    of the agency, and where not excess to grant an option to purchase, 
    to the purchasers or transferees of such housing, for an amount not 
    less than the appraised value of the installations and upon such 
    terms and conditions as the head of the agency shall establish.

    (b) Any Federal agency (including any wholly owned Government 
corporation) having under its jurisdiction lands across which run any 
part of a utility system for housing under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary is authorized to grant to the Secretary, or to the purchasers 
or transferees of such housing, easements (which may be perpetual) on 
such land for utility purposes.

(June 28, 1948, ch. 688, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 1063; Pub. L. 89-174, 
Sec. 5(a), Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 669.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of title II of act June 28, 1948, 
ch. 440, 54 Stat. 681, known as title II of the National Defense 
Expediting Act which comprises this subchapter.

                          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.
