---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 1307"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "1307"
heading: "Public building construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/1307"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — The Budget Process"
  - "Chapter 13 — Appropriations"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §1307. Public building construction


Amounts appropriated to construct public buildings remain available until completion of the work. When a building is completed and outstanding liabilities for the construction are paid, balances remaining shall revert immediately to the Treasury.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 918.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1307 | 31:682. | June 23, 1874, ch. 476, § 1, 18 Stat. 275. |

The words before the proviso in the Act of June 23, 1874 (ch. 476, 18 Stat. 275), are omitted as obsolete.