---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3105"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3105"
heading: "Buildings not to be draped in mourning"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3105"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter I — Oversight and Regulation of Public Buildings"
---

# §3105. Buildings not to be draped in mourning


No building owned, or used for public purposes, by the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) shall be draped in mourning nor may public money be used for that purpose.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1143.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3105 | 40:286. | Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 211, § 3, 27 Stat. 715. |

The words “On and after March 3, 1893” are omitted as obsolete.