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legal/us/code/title-40/chapter-87/section-8736.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "40 U.S.C. § 8736"
+description: "Execution of deeds"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 40
+title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
+chapter_number: "87"
+chapter_name: "PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION"
+section: "8736"
+citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8736"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc40@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t40/s8736"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 40 U.S.C. § 8736 - Execution of deeds
+
+## Text
+
+The Mayor of the District of Columbia may execute deeds of conveyance for real estate sold under this subchapter. The deeds shall contain a full description of the land sold as required by law.
+
+(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 873640:72e.Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, § 3, 53 Stat. 1211. The word “proper” is omitted as unnecessary. The words “as required by” are substituted for “either by metes and bounds, or otherwise according to” to eliminate unnecessary words.