---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 297"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "297"
heading: "Acquisition of property by lease"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/297"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Foreign Service Buildings"
---

# §297. Acquisition of property by lease


The authority granted to acquire sites and buildings by purchase or otherwise shall include authority to acquire leaseholds.


## Source credit

(May 7, 1926, ch. 250, § 6, 44 Stat. 405; June 19, 1952, ch. 446, § 4, 66 Stat. 140; Pub. L. 95–105, title I, § 106(b), Aug. 17, 1977, 91 Stat. 845.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1977—Pub. L. 95–105 struck out “of not less than ten years” after “acquire leaseholds”.

1952—Act June 19, 1952, provided for leaseholds of not less than 10 years.