Title 20 — EducationRelease 119-73not60

§3477 Acquisition and Maintenance of Property

Title 20 › Chapter 48— DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION › Subchapter IV— ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Part B— General Administrative Provisions › § 3477

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can buy, lease, condemn, build, improve, repair, run, and keep up certain property. That includes schools (only if the Department is allowed to operate them under this chapter), labs, research and testing sites, housing for employees and their dependents, and personal property (including patents). The Secretary can also set up or contract for eating and other welfare facilities for employees and buy and maintain equipment. The powers the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare has under section 2564 are also given to the Secretary. The authority above can only be used for special-purpose facilities that cannot be easily reassigned to similar Federal activities and that are not available from the Administrator of General Services.

Full Legal Text

Title 20, §3477

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(a)The Secretary is authorized—

(1)to acquire (by purchase, lease, condemnation, or otherwise), construct, improve, repair, operate, and maintain—

(A)schools and related facilities (but only to the extent that operation of schools and related facilities by the Department is authorized by this chapter);

(B)laboratories;

(C)research and testing sites and facilities;

(D)quarters and related accommodations for employees and dependents of employees of the Department; and

(E)personal property (including patents), or any interest therein,

(2)to provide by contract or otherwise for the establishment of eating facilities and other necessary facilities for the health and welfare of employees of the Department at its installations, and purchase and maintain equipment therefor.

(b)The authority available to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under section 2564 of this title, shall also be available to the Secretary.

(c)The authority granted by subsection (a) of this section shall be available only with respect to facilities of a special purpose nature that cannot readily be reassigned from similar Federal activities and are not otherwise available for assignment to the Department by the Administrator of General Services.

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Citation

20 U.S.C. § 3477

Title 20 — Education

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60