---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2361"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2361"
heading: "Contract to purchase by priority purchaser"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2361"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter V — Financing"
---

# §2361. Contract to purchase by priority purchaser


The [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may, in the sale of any [single](/usc/42/2304.md?p=m)-family or duplex [house](/usc/42/2304.md?p=c) to a priority purchaser, enter into a contract to purchase which provides that the purchaser shall conclude his purchase within not more than three years after the date the contract is entered into. Such contracts to purchase shall provide for such periodic payments, including payments on account of principal, interest, or tax equivalents, as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall prescribe.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 6, § 61, 69 Stat. 478.)

## 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.