---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2331"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2331"
heading: "Classification of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2331"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter III — Classification of Property and Priorities"
---

# §2331. Classification of property

- (a) **Property within each community—** Immediately upon passage of this chapter, or, in the case of Los Alamos, upon its inclusion within this chapter, the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall classify all real property (including such improvements and such fixtures, equipment and other personal property incident thereto as it may deem appropriate) within each [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) in accordance with such classifications as shall insure reasonably similar [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) for reasonably similar property. The classification shall be made by such procedures, consistent with this subchapter, as it shall determine.
- (b) **Property at or in vicinity of each community—** The [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may, but shall not be required to, classify any other real property at or in the vicinity of the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b), whether within or outside of that [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b).
- (c) **Residential structures within each community—** Prior to the date any [residential property](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) is first offered for sale at Los Alamos, the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall further classify each residential structure within the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) of Los Alamos either as a [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), a duplex [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), an apartment [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), a dormitory, or as a residential structure containing two or more separate [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) units and shall post, at the offices of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) at Los Alamos, a list, available for public inspection at reasonable times, showing the classification of each such residential structure. For the purposes of this chapter, each such residential structure will thereafter be deemed to be a [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), a duplex [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), an apartment [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c), a dormitory, or a residential structure containing two or more separate [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) units in accordance with its classification. In determining the classification of each such residential structure containing two or more [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) units, the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall consider (1) the practicability of selling separately the [single family](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m) units, and (2) the insurability of [mortgages](/usc/42/2304.md?p=e) under [section 1715n(a) of title 12](/usc/12/1715n.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 4, § 41, 69 Stat. 475; Pub. L. 87–719, §§ 7, 8, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 664.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1962—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 87–719, § 7, inserted “, or, in the case of Los Alamos, upon its inclusion within this chapter” after “chapter”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 87–719, § 8, added subsec. (c).

### 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.