Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

42 U.S.C. § 1531 to 1536

Omitted

Editorial Notes

Codification

act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, title II, § 201June 28, 1941, ch. 260, § 355 Stat. 361section 1532 of this titlesection 1532 of this titleSection 1531, , as added , , which declared the policy of this subchapter was to provide means by which public works were to be acquired, operated, and maintained in the areas described in , and defined public works, was omitted in view of the omission of .

act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, title II, § 202June 28, 1941, ch. 260, § 355 Stat. 362June 30, 1949, ch. 28863 Stat. 380Apr. 20, 1950, ch. 9464 Stat. 7364 Stat. 1269act July 3, 1952, ch. 570, § 1(a)(12)66 Stat. 332act Mar. 31, 1953, ch. 13, § 167 Stat. 18section 1 of Title 50Section 1532, , as added , ; amended Ex. Ord. No. 9070, § 1, eff. , 7 F.R. 1529; , title I, § 103, ; , title II, § 204, ; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 17, § 1, eff. , 15 F.R. 3177, , which related to the powers of the Housing and Home Administrator respecting defense public works and defined private agency, was omitted pursuant to , , as amended by , , which provided that this section continue in force until six months after the termination of the national emergency proclaimed by the President on by Proc. No. 2914, 15 F.R. 9029 64 Stat. A 454, set out as a note preceding , War and National Defense, or on such earlier date or dates as provided by Congress, but in no event beyond .

act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, title II, § 203June 28, 1941, ch. 260, § 355 Stat. 362June 30, 1949, ch. 28863 Stat. 380Apr. 20, 1950, ch. 9464 Stat. 7364 Stat. 1269section 1532 of this titleSection 1533, , as added , ; amended Ex. Ord. No. 9070, § 1, eff. , 7 F.R. 1259; , title I, § 103, ; , title II, § 204, ; 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 17, § 1, eff. , 15 F.R. 3177, , which related to the terms to be observed in the application of this subchapter and restricted governmental supervision over schools and hospitals, was omitted in view of the omission of .

act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, title II, § 204June 28, 1941, ch. 260, § 355 Stat. 363Jan. 21, 1942, ch. 14, § 556 Stat. 12July 15, 1943, ch. 24057 Stat. 565July 3, 1945, ch. 264, § 159 Stat. 383section 1532 of this titleSection 1534, , as added , ; amended , ; , ; , , which authorized appropriations to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, was omitted in view of the omission of .

act Oct. 14, 1940, ch. 862, title II, § 205June 26, 1946, ch. 49860 Stat. 314Section 1535, , as added , , which authorized, for the fiscal year ending , contributions for the operation and maintenance of school facilities in order to enable school authorities that were still over-burdened with war-incurred school enrollments to meet their needs during transition from war to peacetime conditions.

act July 31, 1953, ch. 302, title I, § 10167 Stat. 305Section 1536, , , which authorized the Administrator to transfer projects or facilities to other departments or agencies which request a transfer, was enacted as a part of the First Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1954, and not as a part of title II of the Lanham Public War Housing Act which comprised this subchapter, and was not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Limitation on Use of Funds

Act , as amended by act , provided in part that no funds be used for loans, grants, or contributions for the operation day care or extended school services for children of mothers employed in war areas if and when the War-Area-Child-Care Act of 1943 (S. 1130, Seventy-eighth Congress, first session), becomes law, no grant, loan, or contribution for the maintenance or operation of public schools in any State be made without prior consultation with the State department of education and the United States Office of Education, and that none of the funds authorized herein be used to acquire public works already operated by public or private agencies, except where funds were allotted for substantial additions or improvements to such works with the consent of the owner, and that the total amount for contributions to public and private agencies for the maintenance and operation of public works after , not exceed $120,000,000.

Additional Appropriations

Apr. 25, 1945, ch. 9559 Stat. 80July 3, 1945, ch. 26459 Stat. 383act Mar. 31, 1945, ch. 4795 Stat. 46Acts , title I, ; , §§ 2, 3, , provided in part for an additional $20,000,000 to enable the Federal Works Administrator to carry out the functions vested in him by sections 1531 to 1534 and 1541 of this title, which amount was to remain available during the continuance of the unlimited national emergency declared by the President on but which was not to be available for new projects after and of which amount $800,000 was to be available for administrative expenses, and the limitation of $80,000,000 in the First Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1945, , , on the total amount to be allocated for contributions to public and private agencies for the maintenance and operation of public works after be increased to $85,000,000, and that in making allocations from the funds herein appropriated for construction projects, priority be given to emergency projects involving an estimated cost to the Federal Government of less than $250,000.