---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2375"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2375"
heading: "Gift of utility to city; charges and terms for utilities transferred to other transferees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2375"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Disposal of Atomic Energy Communities"
  - "Subchapter VI — Utilities"
---

# §2375. Gift of utility to city; charges and terms for utilities transferred to other transferees


The [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) may give the [utility](/usc/42/2304.md?p=l) to the city incorporated at the [community](/usc/42/2304.md?p=b); and must charge in selling the [utility](/usc/42/2304.md?p=l) to any other transferee: Provided, That at Los Alamos, [utilities](/usc/42/2304.md?p=l) may be given to the county or other local governmental entity. The charges and terms for the transfer of any [utility](/usc/42/2304.md?p=l) may be established by advertising and competitive bid, or by negotiated sale or other transfer at such prices, terms, and conditions as the [Commission](/usc/42/2304.md?p=a) shall determine to be fair and equitable.


## Source credit

(Aug. 4, 1955, ch. 543, ch. 7, § 75, 69 Stat. 480; Pub. L. 87–719, § 21, Sept. 28, 1962, 76 Stat. 666.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1962—Pub. L. 87–719 inserted “: Provided, That at Los Alamos, utilities may be given to the county or other local governmental entity” after “transferee”.

### 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.