---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9454"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9454"
heading: "Buildings and grounds: buildings for religious worship"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9454"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part III — Training"
  - "Chapter 953 — United States Air Force Academy"
---

# §9454. Buildings and grounds: buildings for religious worship


The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) of the Air Force may authorize any denomination, sect, or religious body to erect a building for religious worship at the Air Force Academy, if its erection will not interfere with the use of the reservation for military purposes and will be without expense to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1). Such a building shall be removed, or its location changed, without compensation for it and without expense to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1), by the denomination, sect, or religious body that erected it, whenever in the opinion of the [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) public or military necessity so requires.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 567, § 9354; renumbered § 9454, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(a)(3), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 9354 | 10:1126. | July 8, 1898, ch. 636, 30 Stat. 722. |

The words “in his discretion” and “Government of” are omitted as surplusage. The words “United States” are substituted for the word “Government”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9354 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.