---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 312103"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "312103"
heading: "Principal office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/312103"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division B — Organizations and Programs"
  - "Subdivision 3 — Administered by Other Than National Park Service"
  - "Chapter 3121 — National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States"
---

# §312103. Principal office


The [National Trust](/usc/54/308702.md?p=1) shall have its principal office in the District of Columbia and shall be deemed, for purposes of venue in civil actions, to be a resident of the District of Columbia. The [National Trust](/usc/54/308702.md?p=1) may establish offices in other places as it may consider necessary or appropriate in the conduct of its business.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3249.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 312103 | 16 U.S.C. 468a. | Oct. 26, 1949, ch. 735, § 2, 63 Stat. 927. |

The words “inhabitant and” are omitted as unnecessary.