---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2345"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2345"
heading: "Deeds; form and provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2345"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter IV — Sales of Property for Private Use"
---

# §2345. Deeds; form and provisions


Deeds executed in connection with the [disposal](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=7) of property pursuant to the provisions of this chapter—

- (a) shall be as simple as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall find to be appropriate, and may contain such warranties or covenants of title and other provisions (including any indemnity) as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may deem appropriate;
- (b) with respect to any dormitories or apartment [houses](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c) and any property used or to be used for [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) of housing developments for rental purposes, may retain or acquire such rights to the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) to designate the future [occupants](/usc/42/2304.md?p=g) of part or all of such properties as it may deem appropriate to insure the availability of housing for employees of the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) and its contractors;
- (c) may require that the transferee, his heirs, successors, and assigns shall compensate the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) for any municipal services provided by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) at rates which will not be in excess of the average tax for such services in the immediate vicinity of the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b); and any amounts due and unpaid for such compensation (together with interest and costs thereon) shall, as of the date on which such amounts become delinquent, be a lien in favor of the United States upon the premises sold by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a), though not valid as against any mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, or judgment creditor until notice thereof has been filed in accordance with the laws of the [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) in which the property is situated or in the office of the clerk of the United States district court for the judicial district in which the property subject to the lien is situated, if such [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) has not by law provided for the filing of such notice;
- (d) in transferring any property pursuant to sections [2321](/usc/42/2321.md) and [2342](/usc/42/2342.md) of this title, may impose such restrictions and requirements relating to the use of the premises and to public health and safety, as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may deem appropriate, which restrictions and requirements shall not be valid beyond one year after the incorporation of the city at the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b) or after June 30, 1966, in the case of Los Alamos; and
- (e) may require that any payments in lieu of property taxes or assessments for local improvements made by the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) with respect to the property shall be equitably prorated.

## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 5, § 55, 69 Stat. 477; Pub. L. 87–719, § 12, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 665.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1962—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 87–719 inserted “or after June 30, 1966, in the case of Los Alamos” after “community”.

### 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.