---
kind: "section"
citation: "23 U.S.C. § 305"
title: "23"
title_heading: "Highways"
number: "305"
heading: "Archeological and paleontological salvage"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/23/305"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — General Provisions"
---

# §305. Archeological and paleontological salvage


Funds authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title to the extent approved as necessary by the [highway](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-11) department of any [State](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-28), may be used for archeological and paleontological salvage in that [State](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-28) in compliance with the Act entitled “An Act for the preservation of American antiquities”, approved June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225), and [State](/usc/23/101.md?p=a-28) laws where applicable,


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 85–767, Aug. 27, 1958, 72 Stat. 913; Pub. L. 86–657, § 8(e), July 14, 1960, 74 Stat. 525.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

An Act for the preservation of American antiquities, referred to in text, is act June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225, popularly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Amendments

1960—Pub. L. 86–657 substituted “appropriated to carry out this title to the extent approved” for “appropriated under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, to the extent approved”.