2000 U.S. Code
Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
CHAPTER 1 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Sec. 130 - Courthouse for United States Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the District of Columbia; maintenance and operation; allocation of space

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§130. Courthouse for United States Court of Appeals and United States District Court for the District of Columbia; maintenance and operation; allocation of space

The operation, maintenance, and repair of the completed building for the use of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall be under the control of the Administrator of General Services, and the allocation of space therein shall be vested in the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

(May 14, 1948, ch. 290, §2, 62 Stat. 235; June 25, 1948, ch. 646, §32(b), 62 Stat. 991; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, §127, 63 Stat. 107; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, §103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

Change of Name

“United States District Court for the District of Columbia” substituted in text for “District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia” on authority of act June 25, 1948, §32(b), as amended by act May 24, 1949, §127.

The terms chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the chief justice of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia were changed to chief judge by act June 25, 1948, as amended by act May 29, 1949.

Transfer of Functions

Functions with respect to acquiring space in buildings by lease and functions with respect to assigning and reassigning space in buildings for use by agencies (including both space acquired by lease and space in Government-owned buildings), with certain exceptions, transferred from respective agencies in which theretofore vested to Administrator of General Services by section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 18 of 1950, eff. July 1, 1950, 15 F.R. 3177, 64 Stat. 1270, set out as a note under section 490 of this title. For delegation of those transferred functions to other personnel of General Services Administration, or to heads and personnel of other agencies, and for transfer of personnel, property, records, and funds, see sections 3 and 4 of that Plan.

Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, together with functions of Federal Works Administrator, and functions of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public Buildings Administration, transferred to Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 1949, which is classified to section 753(a) of this title. Federal Works Agency, office of Federal Works Administrator, office of Commissioner of Public Buildings, and Public Buildings Administration abolished by section 103(b) of that act.

Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, see note set out under section 471 of this title.

References to Courthouse

Reference to United States Courthouse in District of Columbia deemed reference to “E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse”, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–151, set out as an E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse Designation note under section 129a of this title.

Section Referred to in Other Sections

This section is referred to in section 130a of this title.