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[CITE: 42USC4624]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
CHAPTER 61--UNIFORM RELOCATION ASSISTANCE AND REAL PROPERTY ACQUISITION 
          POLICIES FOR FEDERAL AND FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--UNIFORM RELOCATION ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 4624. Replacement housing for tenants and certain others

    (a) In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this subchapter, 
the head of a displacing agency shall make a payment to or for any 
displaced person displaced from any dwelling not eligible to receive a 
payment under section 4623 of this title which dwelling was actually and 
lawfully occupied by such displaced person for not less than 90 days 
immediately prior to (1) the initiation of negotiations for acquisition 
of such dwelling, or (2) in any case in which displacement is not a 
direct result of acquisition, such other event as the head of the lead 
agency shall prescribe. Such payment shall consist of the amount 
necessary to enable such person to lease or rent for a period not to 
exceed 42 months, a comparable replacement dwelling, but not to exceed 
$5,250. At the discretion of the head of the displacing agency, a 
payment under this subsection may be made in periodic installments. 
Computation of a payment under this subsection to a low-income displaced 
person for a comparable replacement dwelling shall take into account 
such person's income.
    (b) Any person eligible for a payment under subsection (a) of this 
section may elect to apply such payment to a down payment on, and other 
incidental expenses pursuant to, the purchase of a decent, safe, and 
sanitary replacement dwelling. Any such person may, at the discretion of 
the head of the displacing agency, be eligible under this subsection for 
the maximum payment allowed under subsection (a) of this section, except 
that, in the case of a displaced homeowner who has owned and occupied 
the displacement dwelling for at least 90 days but not more than 180 
days immediately prior to the initiation of negotiations for the 
acquisition of such dwelling, such payment shall not exceed the payment 
such person would otherwise have received under section 4623(a) of this 
title had the person owned and occupied the displacement dwelling 180 
days immediately prior to the initiation of such negotiations.

(Pub. L. 91-646, title II, Sec. 204, Jan. 2, 1971, 84 Stat. 1897; Pub. 
L. 100-17, title IV, Sec. 407, Apr. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 251.)


                               Amendments

    1987--Pub. L. 100-17 amended section generally, revising and 
restating as subsecs. (a) and (b) provisions formerly contained in 
introductory provisions and in pars. (1) and (2).


                    Effective Date of 1987 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-17 effective on effective date provided in 
regulations promulgated under section 4633 of this title (as amended by 
section 412 of Pub. L. 100-17), but not later than 2 years after Apr. 2, 
1987, see section 418 of Pub. L. 100-17, set out as a note under section 
4601 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 4603, 4626, 4630 of this 
title; title 16 sections 429b-2, 450e-1, 460l-8, 460bb-2, 698b, 698h.
