---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 320106"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "320106"
heading: "Limitation on obligation or expenditure of appropriated amounts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/320106"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division C — American Antiquities"
  - "Chapter 3201 — Policy and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §320106. Limitation on obligation or expenditure of appropriated amounts


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) to carry out subsection (f) or (g) of [section 320102 of this title](/usc/54/320102.md) may be obligated or expended—

- (1) unless the appropriation of the funds has been specifically authorized by law enacted on or after October 30, 1992; or
- (2) in excess of the amount prescribed by law enacted on or after October 30, 1992.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3259.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 320106 | 16 U.S.C. 466(a). | Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, § 6(a), 49 Stat. 668; Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4023, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4768. |

The words “Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section” are omitted as obsolete.