---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 2147"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "2147"
heading: "Plant material exchanges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/2147"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex"
  - "Subchapter VI — Botanic Garden and National Garden"
---

# §2147. Plant material exchanges


On and after July 8, 1935, plant material exchanges may be made with botanic gardens, institutions, municipal parks, and gardens.


## Source credit

(July 8, 1935, ch. 374, 49 Stat. 471.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was classified to section 217a 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.

Section is based on par. under heading “BOTANIC GARDEN” in act of July 8, 1935, known as the “Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1936”.