---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 2142"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "2142"
heading: "Superintendent of Botanic Garden and greenhouses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/2142"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex"
  - "Subchapter VI — Botanic Garden and National Garden"
---

# §2142. Superintendent of Botanic Garden and greenhouses


There shall be a superintendent and assistants in the Botanical Garden and greenhouses, who shall be under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 1827.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was classified to section 216 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062.

R.S. § 1827 derived from act Mar. 3, 1873, ch. 226, § 1, 17 Stat. 491.