40-U.S.C.-1309

40-U.S.C.-1309

§1309 – Preservation, Sale, Or Collection of Wrecked, Abandoned, Or Derelict Property

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  • Reference: Section 1309
  • Legend: §1309 – Preservation, Sale, Or Collection of Wrecked, Abandoned, Or Derelict Property
  • USCode Year: 2013

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The Administrator of General Services may make contracts and provisions for the preservation, sale, or collection of property, or the proceeds of property, which may have been wrecked, been abandoned, or become derelict, if the Administrator considers the contracts and provisions to be in the interest of the Federal Government and the property is within the jurisdiction of the United States and should come to the Government. A contract may provide compensation the Administrator considers just and reasonable to any person who gives information about the property or actually preserves, collects, surrenders, or pays over the property. Under each specific agreement for obtaining, preserving, collecting, or receiving property or making property available, the costs or claim chargeable to the Government may not exceed amounts realized and received by the Government.

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1137.)

Historical and Revision Notes
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Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
1309 40:310. R.S. §3755; Pub. L. 89–30, §4, June 2, 1965, 79 Stat. 119.

The words or of any moneys, dues, and other interests lately in the possession of or due to the so-called Confederate States, or their agents, and now belonging to the United States, which are now withheld or retained by any person, corporation or municipality whatever, and which ought to have come into the possession and custody of, or been collected or received by, the United States in section 3755 of the Revised Statues [sic] and debts, dues, or interests, which shall not be paid from such moneys as shall be realized and received from the property so collected, under each specific agreement are omitted as obsolete.

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40-U.S.C.-1307 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Public Property

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