---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8108"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8108"
heading: "Use of public buildings for public ceremonies"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8108"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 81 — Administrative"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §8108. Use of public buildings for public ceremonies


Except as expressly authorized by law, public buildings in the District of Columbia (other than the Capitol Building and the White House), and the approaches to those public buildings, shall not be used or occupied in connection with ceremonies for the inauguration of the President or other public functions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1206.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8108 | 40:31. | Apr. 28, 1902, ch. 594, [§] 1 (last par. on p. 152), 32 Stat. 152. |

The words “in any manner whatever” are omitted as unnecessary.