---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 3481"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "3481"
heading: "Gifts and bequests"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/3481"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Department of Education"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Part B — General Administrative Provisions"
---

# §3481. Gifts and bequests


The [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2) is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, bequests and devises of property, both real and personal, and to accept donations of services, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the [Department](/usc/20/3404.md?p=1). Gifts, bequests, and devises of money and proceeds from sales of other property received as gifts, bequests, or devises shall be deposited in the Treasury and shall be available for disbursement upon the order of the [Secretary](/usc/20/3404.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 421, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687; Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 271(d)(2), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3930.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–382 inserted “and to accept donations of services,” after “personal,”.