§8302 — Title 38 Veterans' Benefits | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary may start or join court cases to get legal title and take possession of property the law allows the Department to accept. The Secretary can take whatever legal steps and pay the costs needed, and those costs are paid like other Department expenses. Any money received by gift, will, sale, or other means for these purposes must be given to the U.S. Treasurer and placed into the General Post Fund.

Title 38, §8302

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For the purpose of acquiring title to and possession of any property which the Secretary is by this chapter authorized to accept, the Secretary may initiate and appear in any appropriate legal proceedings, and take such steps therein or in connection therewith as in the Secretary’s discretion may be desirable and appropriate to reduce said property to possession. The Secretary may incur such expenses incident to such proceedings as the Secretary deems necessary or appropriate, which shall be paid as are other administrative expenses of the Department. All funds received by devise, bequest, gift, or otherwise, for the purposes contemplated in this chapter, including net proceeds of sales authorized by this chapter, shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States to the credit of the General Post Fund.

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1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5102 of this title as this section. Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing, “Secretary’s” for “Administrator’s”, and “Department” for “Veterans’ Administration”. 1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “the Administrator” for “he” in two places, “the Administrator’s” for “his”, and “The Administrator” for “He”.

§8302 Legal proceedings

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Title 38, §8302

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