---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 U.S.C. § 2407"
title: "38"
title_heading: "Veterans’ Benefits"
number: "2407"
heading: "Authority to accept and maintain suitable memorials"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/38/2407"
units:
  - "Part II — General Benefits"
  - "Chapter 24 — National Cemeteries and Memorials"
---

# §2407. Authority to accept and maintain suitable memorials


Subject to such restrictions as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may prescribe, the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may accept gifts, devises, or bequests from legitimate societies and organizations or reputable individuals, made in any manner, which are made for the purpose of beautifying national cemeteries, or are determined to be beneficial to such cemetery. The [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) may make land available for this purpose, and may furnish such care and maintenance as the [Secretary](/usc/38/101.md?p=1) deems necessary.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 93–43, § 2(a), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 78, § 1007; amended Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 701(58), Oct. 28, 1986, 100 Stat. 3296; Pub. L. 101–237, title III, § 313(b)(1), Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2077; renumbered § 2407, Pub. L. 102–83, § 5(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 406.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–83 renumbered section 1007 of this title as this section.

1989—Pub. L. 101–237 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.

1986—Pub. L. 99–576 substituted “the Administrator” for “he” in two places and “The Administrator” for “He”.