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Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73

§127 Transfer of facilities by University or cessation of operation as teaching hospital facilities; recovery of value by United States

Title 20 › Chapter CHAPTER 8— - HOWARD UNIVERSITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 127

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

If, within twenty years after the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare says construction is finished, Howard University gives any of the new or combined hospital facilities to anyone other than the United States, or stops using them as teaching hospitals, the United States can recover from the new owner or from Howard an amount equal to the facilities’ value at that time. The parties must agree on that value or it will be decided by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §127

Education — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

If, within twenty years after the completion of construction (as determined by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare) of the new hospital facilities authorized by section 126 of this title, any of such facilities, or of the facilities transferred pursuant to section 124 of this title and combined with such new facilities, are transferred by Howard University to any other person or entity (except a transfer to the United States) or cease to be operated by the university as teaching hospital facilities, the United States shall be entitled to recover from the transferee or the university, in the case of a transfer, or from the university, if there is no transfer, an amount equal to the then value of such facilities (or so much thereof as is involved in the transfer, as the case may be), such value to be determined by agreement of the parties or by action brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under laws relating to relationship between Howard University and Department of Health, Education, and Welfare transferred to Secretary of Education by section 3441(a)(2)(M) of this title.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 127

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73