15 FAM 450
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
(CT:OBO-68; 04-03-2018)
(Office of Origin: OBO)
15 fam 451 nature of documentation
(CT:OBO-36; 10-31-2013)
a. Unless local law requires the foreign country to
retain the original title deeds, the post must send them to the Bureau of
Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO) for Department of State properties, in
accordance with the OBO cable to post authorizing post to close on a purchase,
or, in the case of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) properties, the Overseas Management
Division, Office of Management Services, Bureau for Management,
USAID/Washington (USAID/W-M/MS/OMD), along with associated title surveys or
plot plans (or the original crown leasehold titles with associated title
surveys) and one signed copy of each. The local recorder or registrar of land
records must certify signed copies of these documents. The post must send OBO
for Department of State properties, or, in the case of USAID properties,
USAID/W-M/MS/OMD, copies of the following acquisition documents:
(1) Sales contracts (purchase agreements);
(2) Exercised options to purchase real property
(documentation with payment schedules included); and
(3) Title affidavits (title searches).
b. If local law requires the foreign country to retain
the originals, the post must send OBO for Department of State properties, or,
in the case of USAID properties, USAID/W-M/MS/OMD, two signed, certified copies
of the title documents or the title document equivalent that the host countrys
government and courts recognize as having equal validity as to proof of U.S.
Government ownership.
c. Wherever possible, contracts and deeds must be in
the English language. If the local law requires these documents to be executed
in the local language, an accurate translation signed and certified by the
translator with the translators name typed below the signature must accompany
each original and copy.
15 fam 452 document transmittal
(CT:OBO-68; 04-03-2018)
a. The post must attach one certified copy of the
experts certificate required by 15 FAM 432.5
to the payment voucher and retain one copy.
b. The post must send to OBO for Department of State properties,
or, in the case of USAID properties, USAID/W-M/MS/OMD, for review one copy of
the signed written Boundary and Building Location Survey report (see 15 FAM Exhibit
432.3, Requirements for Boundary and Building Location Surveys), two prints
of the survey drawings, and one copy of the engineers survey certification.
The post retains one copy of the report, the original tracing, which can be any
kind of graphic representation, of the survey drawings, and the original of the
engineers survey certification.
c. Mailing addresses are listed in 15 FAM 144;
distribution of capital lease (CL) documents is covered in 15 FAM 350.
15 fam 453 through 459 unassigned