---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 2105"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "2105"
heading: "Limitations on contracts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/2105"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — American Folklife Preservation"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §2105. Limitations on contracts

- (a) **Time—** No payment shall be made pursuant to this subchapter to carry out any research or training over a period in excess of two years, except that with the concurrence of at least two-thirds of the members of the [Board](/usc/20/2102.md?p=2) of the [Center](/usc/20/2102.md?p=3) such research or training may be carried out over a period of not to exceed five years.
- (b) **Items excluded—** Assistance pursuant to this subchapter shall not cover the cost of land acquisition, construction, building acquisitions, or acquisition of major equipment.
- (c) **Former Government employees—** No individual formerly in the employment of the Federal Government shall be eligible to receive any assistance pursuant to this subchapter, or to serve as a trustee of the [Center](/usc/20/2102.md?p=3) in the two-year period following the termination of such employment.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–201, § 6, Jan. 2, 1976, 89 Stat. 1132.)