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Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-110

§2331 Classification of Property

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commission must classify all real property in each community right away when the chapter is passed, and for Los Alamos when it becomes part of the chapter. This includes buildings and any related fixtures or equipment the Commission thinks are needed. The Commission must use procedures allowed by the subchapter so that similar property is treated in similar ways. The Commission may also classify other nearby property, but it does not have to. Before any home is first offered for sale at Los Alamos, the Commission must label each residential building as a single-family house, duplex, apartment house, dormitory, or a building with two or more separate single-family units. It must post a list of these labels at its Los Alamos office for the public to see. For the chapter, each building is treated according to that label. When a building has more than one single-family unit, the Commission must consider whether the units can be sold separately and whether mortgages on them are insurable under section 1715n(a) of title 12.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §2331

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(a)Property within each community
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)Property at or in vicinity of each community
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)Residential structures within each community
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110