---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 15701"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "15701"
heading: "Consent of States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/15701"
units:
  - "Subtitle V — Regional Economic and Infrastructure Development"
  - "Chapter 157 — Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §15701. Consent of States


This subtitle does not require a State to engage in or accept a program under this subtitle without its consent.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1479, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2241.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after June 18, 2008, see section 14217(d) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 15101 of this title.