---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 3175"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "3175"
heading: "Acceptance of gifts of property"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/3175"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part A — General"
  - "Chapter 31 — General"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous"
---

# §3175. Acceptance of gifts of property


The Administrator of General Services, and the [United States](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-6) Postal Service where that office is concerned, may accept on behalf of the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) unconditional gifts of [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) in aid of any project or function within their respective jurisdictions.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1155.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3175 | 40:298a. | June 16, 1949, ch. 218, title IV, § 404, 63 Stat. 199. |

The words “Administrator of General Services” are substituted for “Federal Works Administrator” because of section 103(a) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (ch. 288, 63 Stat. 380), which is restated as section 303(c) [303(b)] of the revised title. The words “United States Postal Service” are substituted for “Postmaster General” because of section 6(o) of the Postal Reorganization Act (Public Law 91–375, 84 Stat. 783). The words “real, personal, or other” are omitted as unnecessary.