---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 8628"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "8628"
heading: "Limitation on use of grants for construction"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/8628"
units:
  - "Chapter 94 — Low-Income Energy Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — Low-Income Home Energy Assistance"
---

# §8628. Limitation on use of grants for construction


Grants made under this subchapter may not be used by the [State](/usc/42/8622.md?p=10), or by any other [person](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) with which the [State](/usc/42/8622.md?p=10) makes arrangements to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, for the purchase or improvement of land, or the purchase, [construction](/usc/42/7479.md?p=2-C), or permanent improvement (other than low-cost residential weatherization or other [energy](/usc/42/6311.md?p=7)-related home repairs) of any [building](/usc/42/6881.md?p=i-3) or other [facility](/usc/42/11049.md?p=4).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title XXVI, § 2609, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 902.)