40 USC § 8737 - Authorization of appropriations

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title: "40 USC § 8737 - Authorization of appropriations"
title_number: 40
title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
section_number: "8737"
section_name: "Authorization of appropriations"
chapter_number: 87
chapter_name: "PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "ACQUIRING AND DISPOSING OF LAND"
part_number: "D"
part_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, AND PARKS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)"
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# § 8737. Authorization of appropriations

section 8731 of this title

An amount equal to not more than one cent for each inhabitant of the continental United States as determined by the last preceding decennial census may be appropriated each year in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the National Capital Planning Commission to use for the payment of its expenses and for the acquisition of land the Commission may acquire under  for the purposes named, including compensation for the land, surveys, ascertainment of title, condemnation proceedings, and necessary conveyancing. The appropriated amounts shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the general amounts of the Treasury in the same proportion as other expenses of the District of Columbia.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 8737 | 40:73 (1st, 2d sentences). | June 6, 1924, ch. 270, § 12 (1st, 2d sentences), formerly § 3 (1st, 2d sentences), 43 Stat. 463; renumbered § 12, July 19, 1952, ch. 949, § 2 (1st sentence), 66 Stat. 791. |