---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3147"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3147"
heading: "Suspension of this subchapter during a national emergency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3147"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter IV — Wage Rate Requirements"
---

# §3147. Suspension of this subchapter during a national emergency


The President may suspend the provisions of this subchapter during a national emergency.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1153.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3147 | 40:276a–5. | Mar. 3, 1931, ch. 411, § 6, 46 Stat. 1494; Aug. 30, 1935, ch. 825, 49 Stat. 1013. |

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Termination of War and Emergencies

Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, § 3, 61 Stat. 451, provided that in the interpretation of former 40 U.S.C. 276a–5, the date July 25, 1947, was to be deemed to be the date of termination of any state of war theretofore declared by Congress and of the national emergencies proclaimed by the President on September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941.