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16 U.S.C. § 831dd — Liberal construction of chapter; sale of surplus lands

submitted 93 years ago by ch. 32 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 125 words · no verdicts yet

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This section directs that the chapter be interpreted broadly to carry out its listed purposes. It limits Authority landholding to land needed for decided projects and requires unneeded purchased land to be sold at public auction.

This chapter must be liberally construed to carry out the purposes of Congress to provide for the disposition of and make needful rules and regulations respecting Government properties entrusted to the Authority, provide for the national defense, improve navigation, control destructive floods, and promote interstate commerce and the general welfare, but no real estate must be held except what is necessary in the opinion of the Board to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon requiring the use of such land: Provided , That any land purchased by the Authority and not necessary to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon must be sold by the Authority as agent of the United States, after due advertisement, at public auction to the highest bidder.
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This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out the purposes of Congress to provide for the disposition of and make needful rules and regulations respecting Government properties entrusted to the Authority, provide for the national defense, improve navigation, control destructive floods, and promote interstate commerce and the general welfare, but no real estate shall be held except what is necessary in the opinion of the Board to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon requiring the use of such land: Provided, That any land purchased by the Authority and not necessary to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon shall be sold by the Authority as agent of the United States, after due advertisement, at public auction to the highest bidder.

Source credit: (May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 31, as added Aug. 31, 1935, ch. 836, § 12, 49 Stat. 1080.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1933Enacted · Act of May 18, 1933, ch. 32 · 49 Stat. 1080

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 32 on 1933-05-18.

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