---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 125"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "125"
heading: "Library memberships"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/125"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Property and Administrative Services"
  - "Chapter 1 — General"
  - "Subchapter III — Administrative and General"
---

# §125. Library memberships


Amounts appropriated may be used, when authorized by the Administrator of General Services, for payment in advance for library memberships in societies whose publications are available to members only, or to members at a lower price than that charged to the general public.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1071.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 125 | 40:475(a). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VI, § 603(a), formerly § 503(a), 63 Stat. 403; renumbered [§] 603(a), Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, § 6(a), (b), 64 Stat. 583; Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, § 7(g), 64 Stat. 590. |

The words “such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act” are omitted as unnecessary.