---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2307"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2307"
heading: "Form and contents of contracts, mortgages, and other instruments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2307"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2307. Form and contents of contracts, mortgages, and other instruments


Contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter and other instruments executed pursuant to this chapter shall be in such form and contain such provisions, consistent with this chapter, as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall prescribe; and shall be as simple and concise as possible. Any [mortgage](/usc/42/2304.md?p=e) shall contain terms which will place the United States in the same position, with respect to any [mortgages](/usc/42/2304.md?p=e) it may hold under the provisions of subchapter V, as that occupied by a private lender under the applicable [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) laws for the relief of mortgagors with respect to deficiency judgments.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 11, § 113, 69 Stat. 483.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Atomic Energy Commission abolished and functions transferred by sections 5814 and 5841 of this title. See also Transfer of Functions notes set out under those sections.