---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 527"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "527"
heading: "Abandonment, destruction, or donation of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/527"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Property and Administrative Services"
  - "Chapter 5 — Property Management"
  - "Subchapter II — Use of Property"
---

# §527. Abandonment, destruction, or donation of property


The Administrator of General Services may authorize the abandonment or destruction of [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9), or the donation of [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) to a public body, if—

- (1) the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) has no commercial value; or
- (2) the estimated cost of continued [care and handling](/usc/40/102.md?p=1) exceeds the estimated proceeds from sale.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1086.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 527 | 40:483(h). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title II, § 202(h), 63 Stat. 385. |