---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 4602"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "4602"
heading: "Gifts and bequests"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/4602"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Take Pride in America Program"
---

# §4602. Gifts and bequests

- (a) **Authority—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may solicit, accept, hold, administer, invest in government securities, and use gifts and bequests of money and other personal property to aid or facilitate the purposes of the TPIA [Program](/usc/16/460ss–6.md?p=1). Property so donated and accepted shall not be subject to sequestration.
- (b) **Accounting—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall maintain a full accounting of such gifts and bequests.
- (c) **Treatment of donations, etc.** For purposes of Federal law, property accepted pursuant to this section shall be considered as a gift, bequest, or devise to the United States.
- (d) **Use of property—** Any property and the proceeds thereof shall be used as nearly as practicable in accordance with the terms of the gift or bequest.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–628, title XI, § 1103, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4502.)