---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 6305"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "6305"
heading: "Suspension of regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/6305"
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"
---

# §6305. Suspension of regulations


To allow authorized services, training programs, and ceremonies in the specified buildings and grounds, 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 (or their designees) may suspend for their respective agencies any of the prohibitions contained in sections [6302](/usc/40/6302.md) and [6303](/usc/40/6303.md) of this title as may be necessary for the occasion or circumstance if—

- (1) responsible officers have been appointed; and
- (2) 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 (or their designees) determine that adequate arrangements have been made—
  - (A) to maintain suitable order and decorum in the proceedings; and
  - (B) to protect the specified buildings and grounds and persons and [property](/usc/40/102.md?p=9) in those buildings and on those grounds.

## 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) |
| 6305 | 40:193u. | Oct. 24, 1951, ch. 559, § 8, 65 Stat. 635; Pub. L. 103–279, § 9(b), July 21, 1994, 108 Stat. 1416. |

Before clause (1), the words “or their designees” are substituted for “or their designated representatives” for consistency in the revised section.