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§1817a Disposition of surplus or obsolete personal property

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 28— - ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › § 1817a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allows the Architect of the Capitol to get rid of extra or outdated personal property when money is available. The items can be moved to other agencies, donated, sold, traded in, or thrown away. Money from sales or trade-ins goes back into the Architect’s operating funds and can be used to buy the same or similar items. Those funds can be spent in the year they are received and in the next fiscal year. Applies starting with fiscal year 2010 and for every fiscal year after that.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §1817a

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(a)The Architect of the Capitol shall have the authority, within the limits of available appropriations, to dispose of surplus or obsolete personal property by inter-agency transfer, donation, sale, trade-in, or discarding. Amounts received for the sale or trade-in of personal property shall be credited to funds available for the operations of the Architect of the Capitol and be available for the costs of acquiring the same or similar property. Such funds shall be available for such purposes during the fiscal year received and the following fiscal year.
(b)This section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2010, and each fiscal year thereafter.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section is from the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2010, which is div. A of Pub. L. 111–68.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 1817a

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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