---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4155"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4155"
heading: "Effective date of standards"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4155"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Design and Construction of Public Buildings to Accommodate Physically Handicapped"
---

# §4155. Effective date of standards


Every [building](/usc/42/4151.md) designed, constructed, or altered after the effective date of a [standard](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7) issued under this chapter which is applicable to such [building](/usc/42/4151.md), shall be designed, constructed, or altered in accordance with such [standard](/usc/42/1320d.md?p=7).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–480, § 5, Aug. 12, 1968, 82 Stat. 719.)