---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 4010"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "4010"
heading: "Acquisition of additional land"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/4010"
units:
  - "Part III — Prisons and Prisoners"
  - "Chapter 301 — General Provisions"
---

# §4010. Acquisition of additional land


The Attorney General may, when authorized by law, acquire land adjacent to or in the vicinity of a Federal penal or correctional institution if he considers the additional land essential to the protection of the health or safety of the inmates of the institution.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 89–554, § 3(f), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 610.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 341f. | July 28, 1950, ch. 503, § 7, 64 Stat. 381. |
|  |  | Sept. 16, 1959, Pub. L. 86–286, 73 Stat. 567. |

The reference to an appropriation law is omitted as covered by the words “when authorized by law”.