---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8737"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8737"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8737"
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"
---

# §8737. Authorization of appropriations


An amount equal to not more than one cent for each inhabitant of the continental [United States](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-6) as determined by the last preceding decennial census may be appropriated each year in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the [National Capital](/usc/40/8702.md?p=2) Planning [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) to use for the payment of its expenses and for the acquisition of land the [Commission](/usc/40/15101.md?p=1) may acquire under [section 8731 of this title](/usc/40/8731.md) for the purposes named, including compensation for the land, surveys, ascertainment of title, condemnation proceedings, and necessary conveyancing. The appropriated amounts shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the general amounts of the Treasury in the same proportion as other expenses of the District of Columbia.


## 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) |
| 8737 | 40:73 (1st, 2d sentences). | June 6, 1924, ch. 270, § 12 (1st, 2d sentences), formerly § 3 (1st, 2d sentences), 43 Stat. 463; renumbered § 12, July 19, 1952, ch. 949, § 2 (1st sentence), 66 Stat. 791. |