---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 156"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "156"
heading: "Gifts, etc., to Library of Congress Trust Fund Board"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/156"
units:
  - "Chapter 5 — Library of Congress"
---

# §156. Gifts, etc., to Library of Congress Trust Fund Board


The [Board](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2) is authorized to accept, receive, hold, and administer such gifts, bequests, or devises of property for the benefit of, or in connection with, the Library, its collections, or its service, as may be approved by the [Board](/usc/2/179u.md?p=2) and by the Joint Committee on the Library.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 423, § 2, formerly § 1, 43 Stat. 1107, renumbered Apr. 13, 1936, ch. 213, 49 Stat. 1205.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of first par. of section 2 of act Mar. 3, 1925. Second, third, and fourth pars. of section 2 are classified to sections 157, 158, and 158a of this title, respectively.