2001 US Code
Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
CHAPTER 3 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
Sec. 285 - Buildings under control of Administrator of General Services

All courthouses, customhouses, appraiser's stores, barge offices, and other public buildings outside of the District of Columbia and outside of military reservations which have been purchased or erected, or are in course of construction, or which may be erected or purchased out of any appropriation under the control of the Administrator of General Services, together with the site or sites thereof, are expressly declared to be under the exclusive jurisdiction and control and in the custody of the Administrator of General Services, who shall have full power to take possession of and assign and reassign rooms therein to such Federal officials, clerks, and employees as in his judgment and discretion should be furnished with offices or rooms therein.

(July 1, 1898, ch. 546, §1, 30 Stat. 614; May 29, 1920, ch. 214, §1, 41 Stat. 654; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, §1, eff. June 10, 1933; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§301, 303, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2729, 53 Stat. 1426, 1427; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, §103(a), 63 Stat. 380.)

Section is based on act July 1, 1898, popularly known as the “Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1899”.

Originally this section contained, among the buildings mentioned, reference to subtreasuries and post offices. Act May 29, 1920, ch. 214, §1, 41 Stat. 654, discontinued subtreasuries.

Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, together with functions of Federal Works Administrator 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 and office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section 103(b) of act June 30, 1949.

Ex. Ord. No. 6166 transferred administration of post office buildings to Post Office Department.

“Federal Works Agency,” as formerly used in this section, originally read “Treasury Department,” and “Federal Works Administrator” originally read “Secretary of the Treasury.” By Reorg. Plan No. I of 1939, Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division of Treasury Department transferred to Public Buildings Administration, Federal Works Agency, and functions of Secretary of the Treasury relating to Public Buildings Branch of Procurement Division and to selection of location and sites for public buildings transferred to Federal Works Administrator.

Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note under section 471 of this title.