1999 U.S. Code
Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
CHAPTER 1 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Sec. 72c - Power to sell lands

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§72c. Power to sell lands

The Mayor of the District of Columbia, with the approval of the National Capital Planning Commission, is authorized and empowered in his discretion, for the best interests of the District of Columbia, to sell and convey, in whole or in part, to the highest bidder at public or private sale, real estate now or hereafter owned in fee simple by the District of Columbia for municipal use, in the District of Columbia, which the Council of the District of Columbia and the National Capital Planning Commission find to be no longer required for public purposes.

(Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, §1, 53 Stat. 1211; June 6, 1924, ch. 279, §9, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, §1, 66 Stat. 790; 1967 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§401, 402(192), eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 93–198, title IV, §§401, 421, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 785, 789.)

Codification

Section is also set out in D.C. Code, §9–401.

Repeals

Section 7 of act Aug. 5, 1939, repealed all acts and parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict therewith.

Transfer of Functions

“National Capital Planning Commission” substituted in text for “National Capital Park and Planning Commission”, on authority of act June 6, 1924, ch. 270, §9, as added July 19, 1952, which transferred functions of latter to former. See section 71h of this title and Transfer of Functions note thereunder.

Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, functions of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred to Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93–198, title VII, §711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 421 of Pub. L. 93–198, classified to section 1–241 of the District of Columbia Code. Accordingly, “Mayor” substituted in text for “commissioners”.

Function of Board of Commissioners to find that real estate is no longer required for a public purpose transferred to District of Columbia Council pursuant to section 402(192) of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967.

“Council of the District of Columbia” substituted in text for “District of Columbia Council” pursuant to section 401 of Pub. L. 93–198. District of Columbia Council, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93–198, title VII, §711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, classified to section 1–211 of the District of Columbia Code, and replaced by Council of District of Columbia, as provided by section 401 of Pub. L. 93–198, classified to section 1–221 of the District of Columbia Code.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in sections 72e, 74b of this title.