---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 302106"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "302106"
heading: "Retention of name"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/302106"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 2 — Historic Preservation Program"
  - "Chapter 3021 — National Register of Historic Places"
---

# §302106. Retention of name


Notwithstanding section 43(c) of the Act of July 5, 1946 (known as the Trademark Act of 1946) ([15 U.S.C. 1125(c)](/usc/15/1125.md?p=c)), buildings and structures on or eligible for inclusion on the National Register (either individually or as part of a [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) district), or designated as an individual landmark or as a contributing building in a [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) district by a unit of State or local government, may retain the name historically associated with the building or structure.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3193.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 302106 | 16 U.S.C. 470a(a)(1)(A) (last sentence). | Pub. L. 89–665, title I, § 101(a)(1)(A) (last sentence), as added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(9) [title III, § 3007], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–551. |