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# 42 U.S.C. § 2371 - Transfer of utilities

## Text

The Commission is authorized to transfer to one or more of the entities specified in this subchapter such utilities as in the judgment of the Commission will be appropriate to enable the transferee to meet the needs of the residents of the community for adequate utility services of the kind to be transferred.

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 7, § 71, 69 Stat. 480.)

## Notes

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.