---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 U.S.C. § 8161"
title: "40"
title_heading: "Public Buildings, Property, and Works"
number: "8161"
heading: "Reservation of parking spaces for Members of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/40/8161"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Public Buildings and Works"
  - "Part D — Public Buildings, Grounds, and Parks in the District of Columbia"
  - "Chapter 81 — Administrative"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous"
---

# §8161. Reservation of parking spaces for Members of Congress


The Council of the District of Columbia shall designate, [reserve](/usc/40/8902.md?p=a-3), and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all [public buildings](/usc/40/3301.md?p=a-5) in the District for the use of Members of Congress engaged in public business.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1209.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 8161 | 40:60a. | June 29, 1956, ch. 479 (3d par. under heading “Department of Vehicles and Traffic”), 70 Stat. 447. |

The words “On and after June 29, 1956” are omitted as obsolete. The words “Council of the District of Columbia” are substituted for [“]Commissioners” [meaning the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia] [subsequently changed to “District of Columbia Council” because of section 402(300) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 (eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 81 Stat. 969)] because of sections 401 and 404(a) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 93–198, 87 Stat. 785, 787).