---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3105"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3105"
heading: "Buildings not to be draped in mourning"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3105"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter I — Oversight and Regulation of Public Buildings"
---

# §3105. Buildings not to be draped in mourning


No building owned, or used for public purposes, by the Federal Government shall be draped in mourning nor may public money be used for that purpose.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1143.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3105 | 40:286. | Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 211, § 3, 27 Stat. 715. |

The words “On and after March 3, 1893” are omitted as obsolete.