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title: "40 U.S.C. § 8726"
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title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
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# 40 U.S.C. § 8726 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

Amounts necessary to carry out this subchapter may be appropriated from money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and from any appropriate appropriation law, except the annual District of Columbia Appropriation Act.

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1224.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 872640:71i.June 6, 1924, ch. 270, § 10, as added July 19, 1952, ch. 949, § 1, 66 Stat. 791. The words “any existing provisions of law to the contrary notwithstanding” are omitted as unnecessary.