---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 604"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "604"
heading: "Treatment of assets taken over to establish motor vehicle pools and transportation systems"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/604"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Property and Administrative Services"
  - "Chapter 5 — Property Management"
  - "Subchapter VI — Motor Vehicle Pools and Transportation Systems"
---

# §604. Treatment of assets taken over to establish motor vehicle pools and transportation systems

- (a) **Reimbursement.—**
  - (1) **Requirement.—** When the Administrator of General Services takes over [motor vehicles](/usc/40/102.md?p=7) or related equipment or supplies under [section 602 of this title](/usc/40/602.md), reimbursement is required if the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) is taken over from—
    - (A) a Government corporation; or
    - (B) an agency, if the agency acquired the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) through unreimbursed expenditures made from a revolving or trust fund authorized by law.
  - (2) **Amount.—** The Administrator shall reimburse a Government corporation, or a fund through which an agency acquired [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9), by an amount equal to the fair market value of the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9). If the Administrator subsequently returns [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) of a similar kind under [section 610 of this title](/usc/40/610.md), the Government corporation or the fund shall reimburse the Administrator by an amount equal to the fair market value of the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) returned.
- (b) **Addition to Acquisition Services Fund.—** If the Administrator takes over [motor vehicles](/usc/40/102.md?p=7) or related equipment or supplies under [section 602 of this title](/usc/40/602.md) but reimbursement is not required under [subsection (a)](#a), the value of the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) taken over, as determined by the Administrator, may be added to the capital of the Acquisition Services Fund. If the Administrator subsequently returns [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) of a similar kind under [section 610 of this title](/usc/40/610.md), the value of the [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) may be deducted from the Fund.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1122; Pub. L. 109–313, § 3(h)(5), Oct. 6, 2006, 120 Stat. 1736.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 604(a) | 40:491(g). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title II, § 211(g), (h), as added Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, § 5(c), 64 Stat. 583; Sept. 1, 1954, ch. 1211, § 2, 68 Stat. 1128. |
| 604(b) | 40:491(h). |  |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–313 substituted “Acquisition Services Fund” for “General Supply Fund” in heading and text.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2006 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 109–313 effective 60 days after Oct. 6, 2006, see section 6 of Pub. L. 109–313, set out as a note under section 5316 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.