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42 USC § 2384 - Transfer to governmental entity or private nonprofit organization; determination of transferee 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s2384"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 2384 - Transfer to governmental entity or private nonprofit organization; determination of transferee"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "2384"
section_name: "Transfer to governmental entity or private nonprofit organization; determination of transferee"
chapter_number: 24
chapter_name: "DISPOSAL OF ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITIES"
subchapter_number: "VII"
subchapter_name: "MUNICIPALITIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 8, § 84, 69 Stat. 481.)"
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# § 2384. Transfer to governmental entity or private nonprofit organization; determination of transferee

**(a)** Transfers may be made to one or more of the following, if the entity has the legal authority to receive the installation: (1) the city at the community; (2) the State in which the community is located; (3) any political subdivision or agency of that State; or (4) a private nonprofit organization in the case of the hospital installation or cemetery at the community.

**(b)** In determining the entity to which school, hospital, and other municipal installations, respectively, shall be transferred, the Commission shall be governed, in order, by

**(1)** the results of a vote in which the eligible voters in the community expressed themselves directly on the transfer in the vote on the incorporation of the city;

**(2)** the results of a vote in which the eligible voters have directly expressed themselves on the proposed transfer in a referendum or other officially recognized procedure;

**(3)** there being only one entity which is legally authorized to receive the municipal installation; or

**(4)** in the absence of the other alternatives, the Commission has conducted a vote of the eligible voters of the community on the proposed transfer under such procedures as it may establish.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 8, § 84, 69 Stat. 481.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections.