---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8108"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8108"
heading: "Use of public buildings for public ceremonies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8108"
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"
---

# §8108. Use of public buildings for public ceremonies


Except as expressly authorized by law, [public buildings](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-5) in the District of Columbia (other than the Capitol Building and the White House), and the approaches to those [public buildings](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-5), shall not be used or occupied in connection with ceremonies for the inauguration of the President or other public functions.


## 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) |
| 8108 | 40:31. | Apr. 28, 1902, ch. 594, [§] 1 (last par. on p. 152), 32 Stat. 152. |

The words “in any manner whatever” are omitted as unnecessary.