---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8142"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8142"
heading: "Rent of other buildings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8142"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 81 — Administrative"
  - "Subchapter III — Services for Facilities"
---

# §8142. Rent of other buildings


An executive department of the [Federal Government](/usc/40/3701.md?p=a) renting a building for public use in the District of Columbia may rent a different building instead if it is in the public interest to do so. This section does not authorize an increase in the number of buildings in use or in the amount paid for rent.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1208.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8142 | 40:35. | Aug. 5, 1882, ch. 389 1 [sic] (2d sentence in 8th par. on p. 241), 22 Stat. 241. |

The word “now” in the Act of August 5, 1882 is omitted as obsolete.