---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4152"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4152"
heading: "Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; Administrator of General Services"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4152"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Design and Construction of Public Buildings to Accommodate Physically Handicapped"
---

# §4152. Standards for design, construction, and alteration of buildings; Administrator of General Services


The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of General Services, in consultation with the [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services, shall prescribe [standards](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) for the design, [construction](/usc/42/7479.md?p=2-C), and alteration of [buildings](/usc/42/4151.md) (other than residential structures subject to this chapter and [buildings](/usc/42/4151.md), structures, and [facilities](/usc/42/11049.md?p=4) of the Department of Defense and of the [United States](/usc/42/403.md?p=k) Postal Service subject to this chapter) to insure whenever possible that physically handicapped [persons](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) will have ready access to, and use of, such [buildings](/usc/42/4151.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–480, § 2, Aug. 12, 1968, 82 Stat. 719; Pub. L. 94–541, title II, § 201(2), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2507; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–541 substituted “shall prescribe” and “to insure whenever possible” for “is authorized to prescribe such” and “as may be necessary to insure”, respectively, and inserted in parenthetical text “and of the United States Postal Service” after “Department of Defense”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.