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B-215404 1 (1984-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OUCISION OP THE UNITEO STATE WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-215404 DATE: December 4, 1984 MATTER OF: Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation authority to purchase and install memorial plaque on Federal land DIGEST: Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC) may install a memorial plaque and designate a site within an area under its jurisdiction and control in honor of a deceased former chairperson of the PADC using funds donated to it. PADC has been vested with authority to determine the character of and necessity for its obligations and expenditures and to accept gifts of financial aid from any source and comply with the terms thereof. These authorities are sufficient to free PADC from re- striction otherwise imposed upon Government agencies in the expenditure of appropriated funds except where a statutory restriction expressly applies to Government corporations. No law ex- pressly precludes proposed expenditure by PADC. Furthermore, no law precludes PADC from designating property under its control in honor of deceased former chairperson of PADC. This decision responds to a request from the General Counsel of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation (PADC), for a decision on the PADC's authority to purchase and install a memorial plaque acquired with donated funds and to dedicate the site of the plaque on Federal land under its control to a deceased former chairperson of the PADC. The PADC posed these questions: 1. Does the PADC have the authority to use public space within the designated project area for the installation of a memorial plaque to a former chairperson on public land? 2. Can private donations be legally spent for such a plaque and its installation? 3. Is there a restriction as to how the memorial is designated (i.e., can the site of the plaque be formally 'named' for the individual, or can a plaque only be placed on a site which otherwise carries a different name)? 03 0-7) --) -712S_6

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