---
kind: "section"
citation: "4 U.S.C. § 72"
title: "4"
title_heading: "Flag and Seal, Seat of Government, and the States"
number: "72"
heading: "Public offices; at seat of Government"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/4/72"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Seat of the Government"
---

# §72. Public offices; at seat of Government


All offices attached to the seat of government shall be exercised in the District of Columbia, and not elsewhere, except as otherwise expressly provided by law.


## Source credit

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 643.)