---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8736"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8736"
heading: "Execution of deeds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8736"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 87 — Physical Development of National Capital Region"
  - "Subchapter IV — Acquiring and Disposing of Land"
---

# §8736. Execution of deeds


The Mayor of the District of Columbia may execute deeds of conveyance for real estate sold under this subchapter. The deeds shall contain a full description of the land sold as required by law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1227.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8736 | 40:72e. | Aug. 5, 1939, ch. 449, § 3, 53 Stat. 1211. |

The word “proper” is omitted as unnecessary. The words “as required by” are substituted for “either by metes and bounds, or otherwise according to” to eliminate unnecessary words.