2020 US Code
Title 42 - The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 9 - Housing of Persons Engaged in National Defense
Subchapter IX - Defense Housing and Community Facilities and Services
Sec. 1592h - Conditions and requirements as to contracts; utilization of existing facilities; disposition of facilities constructed by United States

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Citation 42 U.S.C. § 1592h (2020)
Section Name §1592h. Conditions and requirements as to contracts; utilization of existing facilities; disposition of facilities constructed by United States
Section Text

In carrying out this subchapter—

(a) notwithstanding any other provisions of this subchapter, so far as is consistent with emergency needs, contracts shall be subject to section 6101 of title 41;

(b) the cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost system of contracting shall not be used, but contracts may be made on a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis: Provided, That the fixed fee shall not exceed 6 per centum of the estimated cost;

(c) wherever practicable, existing private and public community facilities shall be utilized or such facilities shall be extended, enlarged, or equipped in lieu of constructing new facilities; and

(d) all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any community facilities constructed by the United States pursuant to the authority contained in this subchapter shall (if such agency is willing to accept such facility and operate the same for the purpose for which it was constructed) be disposed of to the appropriate State, city, or other local agency having responsibility for such type of facility in the area not later than one year after June 30, 1953, and subject to the conditions and requirements hereafter prescribed by the Congress.

Source Credit

(Sept. 1, 1951, ch. 378, title III, §309, 65 Stat. 307.)

Editorial Notes CODIFICATION

In subsec. (a), "section 6101 of title 41" substituted for "section 3709 of the Revised Statutes" on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, §6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 42 - THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
CHAPTER 9 - HOUSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN NATIONAL DEFENSE
SUBCHAPTER IX - DEFENSE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES
Sec. 1592h - Conditions and requirements as to contracts; utilization of existing facilities; disposition of facilities constructed by United States
Contains section 1592h
Date 2020
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 13, 2021
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 65 Stat. 307
124 Stat. 3854
Public Law References Public Law 111-350
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