An Act to provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of Columbia to the National Firefighting Museum and Center for Fire Prevention, Incorporated
PL 92-491 (H.R.2895), enacted 10/13/1972

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Public Law 92-491 
A N A C T 
October 13, 1972 
To provide for the conveyance of certain real property in the District of 
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Columbia to the National Flreflghting Museum and Cfenter for Fire Preven-
tion, Incorporated. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis- 
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sioner of the District of Columbia (hereafter in this Act referred to fighung^MuseLm 
as the "Commissioner") shall convey (in accordance with section 2 and center for 
of this Act) to the National Firefighting Museum and Center for Fire iZ^, P^«vention, 
Prevention, Incorporated, a corporation organized under the District 
Land convey-
of Columbia Nonprofit Corporation Act, all right, title, and interest ^"y^stat. 265. 
of the District of Columbia in and to the real property described in 
D.C. code 29-
section 3 of this Act. For purposes of this Actj the term "corporation" ^°°^-
means the corporation described in this section, and the term "real 
property" means the real property described in section 3 of this Act. 
SEC. 2. (a) The Commissioner shall not make the conveyance 
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provided for in the first section of this Act until the Corporation has 
provided reasonable assurances satisfactory to the Commissioner 
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that— 
(1) adequate financial support will be available to the Cor-
poration to restore and maintain the real property for the 
purposes set forth in clause (1) of subsection (b) of this section; 
and 
(2) a sufficient amount of apparatus, equipment, and other 
artifacts relating to firefighting will be available to provide a 
suitable display on the real property. 
(b) The conveyance provided for in the first section of this Act 
shall be made witnout the payment of monetary consideration by the 
Corporation. Such conveyance shall be made subject to the following: 
(1) The Corporation shall use the real property (A) for the pur-
poses of the Corporation stated in its articles of incorporation and 
bylaws as of February 28,1969, and (B) for the purpose of maintain-
ing and displaying sucn apparatus, equipment, or other artifacts 
relating to firefighting as may be loaned or otherwise transferred to 
the Corporation by the District of Columbia or the United States 
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or other sources acceptable to the Corporation for display on the real 
property. 
(2) If the real property shall ever cease to be used for such 
purposes, or if the corporation is unable prior to the expiration of 
the five year period immediately following the date of enactment of 
this Act to obtain adequate financial support to restore such property 
and equipment for display, all right, title, and interest in and to the 
real property shall, at the option of the Commissioner, revert to and 
become the property of the District of Columbia and the District of 
Columbia shall nave the immediate right of entry thereon. 
SEC. 3. The real property referred to in the first section of this 
Act is part of Record Lot 47 in Square 1200 and is more particularly 
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described as follows: 
Beginning for the same at a point on the south line of M Street, 
said point of beginning being 127.50 feet west of the west line 
of Wisconsin Avenue; and running thence east along the south 
line of M Street 38.38 leet to the centerline of the west wall of the 
premises 3208 M Street Northwest; 
thence in a southerly direction along the centerline of said wall 
and a continuation thereof 90.0 feet; 
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Tax exemption. 
56 Stat. 1091. 
Repeal. 
73 Stat. 446. 
thence in a westerly direction along a line parallel to the south 
line of M Street 38.88 feet, more or less, to a point 127.50 feet 
west of the west line of Wisconsin Avenue; 
thence in a northerly direction 90.0 feet to the point of begin-
ning: all as shown on a plat of survey recorded in the Office of 
the Surveyor of the District of Columbia in survey book 51, 
page 66. 
SEC. 4. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this 
section, the real property and any personal property owned by the 
corporation which is located on the real property shall be exempt 
from taxation by the District of Columbia. 
(b) The property described in subsection (a) of this section shall 
be exempt from taxation by the District of Columbia so lon^ as it is 
owned by the corporation for the purposes described in section 2(b) 
(1) of this Act. The provisions of sections 2,3, and 5 of the Act entitled 
"An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the 
District of Columbia", approved December 24,1942 (D.C. Code, sees. 
47-801b, 47-801C, and 47-801e), shall apply with respect to the cor-
poration and the property made exempt from taxation by this section. 
SEC. 5. The Act of September 1, 1959 (Public Law 86-216) is 
repealed. 
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Approved October 13, 1972. 
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October 13, 1972 
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Public Law 92-492 
AN ACT 
To amend titles 10, 32, and 37, United States Code, to authorize the establish-
ment of a National Guard for the Virgin Islands. 
Virgin Islands. 
National Guard, 
establishment. 
70A Stat. 3. 
70A Stat. 596; 
74 Stat. 417. 
76 Stat. 451. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemoled, That section 101 (2) 
of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting "Except as 
provided in section 101(1) of title 32 for laws relating to the mflitia, 
the National Guard, the Army National Guard of the United States, 
and the Air National Guard of the United States," before " 'Terri-
tory' means". 
SEC. 2. (a) Section 101(1) of title 32, United States Code, is 
amended by adding the following new sentence at the end: "How-
ever, for purposes of this title and other laws relating to the militia, 
the National Guard, the Army National Guard of the United States, 
and the Air National Guard of the United States, 'Territory' includes 
the Virgin Islands." 
(b) Section 307 of title 32, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: 
"(g) Federal recognition may not be extended in the case of any 
member of the National Guard of the Virgin Islands in any gradte 
above colonel." 
SEC. 3. Clauses (7) and (9) of section 101 of title 37, United 
States Code, are each amended by inserting "the Virgin Islands", 
after "the Canal Zone", in each of those clauses. 
Approved October 13, 1972. 
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