---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2345"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2345"
heading: "Deeds; form and provisions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2345"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sales of Property for Private Use"
---

# §2345. Deeds; form and provisions


Deeds executed in connection with the [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) of property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter—

- (a) shall be as simple as the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) shall find to be appropriate, and may contain such warranties or covenants of title and other provisions (including any indemnity) as the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) may deem appropriate;
- (b) with respect to any dormitories or apartment houses and any property used or to be used for [construction](/usc/42/7479.md?p=2-C) of [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) developments for rental purposes, may retain or acquire such rights to the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) to designate the future occupants of part or all of such properties as it may deem appropriate to insure the availability of [housing](/usc/42/1490p–2.md?p=r-3) for [employees](/usc/42/1320a–7h.md?p=e-7) of the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) and its contractors;
- (c) may require that the transferee, his heirs, successors, and assigns shall compensate the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) for any municipal services provided by the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) at rates which will not be in excess of the average tax for such services in the immediate vicinity of the community; and any amounts due and unpaid for such compensation (together with interest and costs thereon) shall, as of the date on which such amounts become delinquent, be a lien in favor of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) upon the premises sold by the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1), though not valid as against any mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, or judgment creditor until notice thereof has been filed in accordance with the laws of the [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) in which the property is situated or in the [office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of the clerk of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) district court for the judicial district in which the property subject to the lien is situated, if such [State](/usc/42/201.md?p=f) has not by law provided for the filing of such notice;
- (d) in transferring any property pursuant to sections [2321](/usc/42/2321.md) and [2342](/usc/42/2342.md) of this title, may impose such restrictions and requirements relating to the use of the premises and to public health and safety, as the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) may deem appropriate, which restrictions and requirements shall not be valid beyond one year after the incorporation of the [city](/usc/42/12902.md?p=11) at the community or after June 30, 1966, in the case of Los Alamos; and
- (e) may require that any payments in lieu of property taxes or assessments for local improvements made by the [Commission](/usc/42/2000ff.md?p=1) with respect to the property shall be equitably prorated.

## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 5, § 55, 69 Stat. 477; Pub. L. 87–719, § 12, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 665.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1962—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 87–719 inserted “or after June 30, 1966, in the case of Los Alamos” after “community”.

### 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.