---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8141"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8141"
heading: "Contract to rent buildings in the District of Columbia not to be made until appropriation enacted"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8141"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 81 — Administrative"
  - "Subchapter III — Services for Facilities"
---

# §8141. Contract to rent buildings in the District of Columbia not to be made until appropriation enacted


A contract shall not be made for the rent of a building, or part of a building, to be used for the purposes of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia until Congress enacts an appropriation for the rent. This section is deemed to be notice to all contractors or lessors of the building or a part of the building.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1208.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8141 | 40:34. | Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 106 (words after 2d semicolon in 3d par. under heading “Miscellaneous”), 19 Stat. 370. |