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title: "40 U.S.C. § 8121"
description: "Improper appropriation of streets"
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title_number: 40
title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
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# 40 U.S.C. § 8121 - Improper appropriation of streets
## Text
(a) Authority.— The Secretary of the Interior shall—
(1) prevent the improper appropriation or occupation of any public street, avenue, square, or reservation in the District of Columbia that belongs to the Federal Government;
(2) reclaim the street, avenue, square, or reservation if unlawfully appropriated;
(3) prevent the erection of any permanent building on property reserved to or for the use of the Government, unless plainly authorized by law; and
(4) report to Congress at the beginning of each session on the Secretarys proceedings in the premises, together with a full statement of all property described in this subsection, and how, and by what authority, the property is occupied or claimed.
(b) Application.— This section does not interfere with the temporary and proper occupation of any part of the property described in subsection (a), by lawful authority, for the legitimate purposes of the Government.
(Pub. L. 107217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1206.)
## Notes
Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 812140:66.R.S. § 1818. In subsection (a)(1), the words “the District of Columbia” are substituted for “the city of Washington” for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code. In subsection (a)(3), the word “particularly” is omitted as unnecessary.