---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 6304"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "6304"
heading: "Additional regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/6304"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part C — Federal Building Complexes"
  - "Chapter 63 — Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts"
---

# §6304. Additional regulations

- (a) **Authority To Prescribe Additional Regulations.—** In addition to the restrictions and requirements specified in sections [6302](/usc/40/6302.md) and [6303](/usc/40/6303.md) of this title, the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art, and the Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may prescribe for their respective agencies regulations necessary for—
  - (1) the adequate protection of the specified buildings and grounds and individuals and [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) in those buildings and grounds; and
  - (2) the maintenance of suitable order and decorum within the specified buildings and grounds, including the control of traffic and parking of vehicles in the National Zoological Park and all other areas in the District of Columbia under their control.
- (b) **Publication in Federal Register.—** A regulation prescribed under this section shall be published in the Federal Register and is not effective until the expiration of 10 days after the date of publication.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1186.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 6304 | 40:193r. | Oct. 24, 1951, ch. 559, § 5, 65 Stat. 634; Pub. L. 88–391, § 1, Aug. 1, 1964, 78 Stat. 365; Pub. L. 103–279, § 9(a), July 21, 1994, 108 Stat. 1416. |