---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8106"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8106"
heading: "Buildings on reservations, parks, or public grounds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8106"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 81 — Administrative"
  - "Subchapter I — General"
---

# §8106. Buildings on reservations, parks, or public grounds


A building or structure shall not be erected on any reservation, park, or public grounds of the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) in the District of Columbia without express authority of Congress.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1206.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8106 | 40:68. | Aug. 24, 1912, ch. 355, § 1 (10th par. on p. 444), 37 Stat. 444. |

The words “On and after August 24, 1912” are omitted as obsolete.