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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§2331 Classification of property

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 24— - DISPOSAL OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITIES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY AND PRIORITIES › § 2331

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must, when the chapter takes effect (or when Los Alamos is added), classify all real property in each community so similar properties are treated alike, following the rules in this subchapter. The Commission may also classify other nearby property but does not have to. Before any Los Alamos home is first offered for sale, the Commission must classify each residential building as one of five types (single-family, duplex, apartment house, dormitory, or a building with two or more single-family units) and post a public list at its Los Alamos office. That classification controls how the chapter treats the building. For multi-unit buildings the Commission must consider whether units can be sold separately and whether mortgages would be insurable under section 1715n(a) of title 12.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §2331

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(a)Immediately upon passage of this chapter, or, in the case of Los Alamos, upon its inclusion within this chapter, the Commission shall classify all real property (including such improvements and such fixtures, equipment and other personal property incident thereto as it may deem appropriate) within each community in accordance with such classifications as shall insure reasonably similar treatment for reasonably similar property. The classification shall be made by such procedures, consistent with this subchapter, as it shall determine.
(b)The Commission may, but shall not be required to, classify any other real property at or in the vicinity of the community, whether within or outside of that community.
(c)Prior to the date any residential property is first offered for sale at Los Alamos, the Commission shall further classify each residential structure within the community of Los Alamos either as a single family house, a duplex house, an apartment house, a dormitory, or as a residential structure containing two or more separate single family units and shall post, at the offices of the Commission at Los Alamos, a list, available for public inspection at reasonable times, showing the classification of each such residential structure. For the purposes of this chapter, each such residential structure will thereafter be deemed to be a single family house, a duplex house, an apartment house, a dormitory, or a residential structure containing two or more separate single family units in accordance with its classification. In determining the classification of each such residential structure containing two or more single family units, the Commission shall consider (1) the practicability of selling separately the single family units, and (2) the insurability of mortgages under section 1715n(a) of title 12.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1962—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87–719, § 7, inserted “, or, in the case of Los Alamos, upon its inclusion within this chapter” after “chapter”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87–719, § 8, added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by section 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also

Transfer of Functions

notes set out under those sections.

Reference

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 2331

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73