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PUBLIC LAW 221-AUG. 4, 1955

inent of the Commission, will be appropriate to enable the transferees to meet the needs of the residents of the community for adequate school, hospital, and other municipal services. SEC. 83. DATE OF TR.\NsrER.—Transfers of municipal installations may be made at any time, not later than five years after the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 84. E N T I T Y RECEIVING TRANSFER.—

a. Transfers may be made to one or more of the following, if the entity has the legal authority to receive the installation: (1) the city at the community; (2) the State in which the community is located; (3) any political subdivision or agency of that State; or (4) a private nonprofit organization in the case of the hospital installation or cemetery at the community. b. I n determining the entity to which school, hospital, and other municipal installations, respectively, shall be transferred, the Commission shall be governed, in order, by (1) the results of a vote in which the eligible voters in the community expressed themselves directly on the transfer in the vote on the incorporation of the city; (2) the results of a vote in which the eligible voters have directly expressed themselves on the proposed transfer in a referendum or other officially recognized procedure; (3) there being only one entity which is legally authorized to receive the municipal installation; or (4) in the absence of the other alternatives, the Commission has conducted a vote of the eligible voters of the community on the proposed transfer under such procedures as it may establish. SEC. 85. INSTALLATIONS TRANSFERABLE.—All municipal installations

are authorized to be transferred under this chapter, but shall not include property which the Commission determines to be needed for its own use. SEC. 86. CHARGES FOR MUNICIPAL INSTALLATIONS TRANSFERRED.—

The transfer of any municipal installation authorized to be made under the provisions of this chapter may be made without charge to the entity receiving the installation. C H A P T E R 9. LOCAL A S S I S T A N C E SEC. 91. BASIS OF ASSISTANCE TO CITIES AND OTHER STATE AND LOCAL E N T I T I E S. —

a. From the date of transfer of any municipal installations to a governmental or other entity at or for the community, the Commission shall, for a period of ten years, make annual assistance payments of just and reasonable sums to the State, county, or local entity having jurisdiction to collect property taxes or to the entity receiving the installation transferred hereunder. I n determining the amount and recipient of such payments, the Commission shall consider— (1) the approximate real property taxes and assessments for local improvements which would be paid to the governmental entity upon property within the community if such property were not exempt from taxation by reason of Federal ownership; (2) the maintaining of municipal services at a level which will not impede the recruitment or retention of personnel essential to the atomic energy program; 5440Z O - 55

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