---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 8304"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "8304"
heading: "Disposition of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/8304"
units:
  - "Part VI — Acquisition and Disposition of Property"
  - "Chapter 83 — Acceptance of Gifts and Bequests"
---

# §8304. Disposition of property


If the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) receives any property other than moneys as contemplated by this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) is authorized in the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1)’s discretion to sell, assign, transfer, and convey the same, or any interest therein claimed by virtue of such devise, bequest, or gift, for such price and upon such terms as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) deems advantageous (including consent to partition of realty and compromise of contested claim of title) and the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1)’s assignment, deed, or other conveyance of any such property, executed in the name and on behalf of the United States, shall be valid to pass to the purchaser thereof such title to said property as the United States, beneficially or as trustee of the General Post Fund, may have by virtue of any such devise, bequest, or gift, and the proceedings incident thereto, subject to the conditions, limitations, and provisions of the instruments so executed by the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1255, § 5104; Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(92), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3299; renumbered § 8304, Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(b)(1), May 7, 1991, 105 Stat. 238; Pub. L. 102–83, § 4(b)(1), (2)(E), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 404, 405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 5104 of this title as this section.

Pub. L. 102–83 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” and “Secretary’s” for “Administrator’s” wherever appearing.

1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “the Administrator” for “he” in two places, and “the Administrator’s” for “his” in two places.