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[CITE: 40USC193v]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 193v. ``Buildings and grounds'' defined

    For the purpose of sections 193n to 193x of this title ``buildings 
and grounds'' shall mean--
        (1) The Smithsonian Institution and its grounds which shall be 
    construed to include the following:
            (A) the Smithsonian Building, the Arts and Industries 
        Building, the Freer Gallery of Art Building, the Air and Space 
        Building, the Museum of Natural History, the National Museum of 
        American History Building, and all other buildings of the 
        Smithsonian Institution within the Mall, including the entrance 
        walks, unloading areas, and other pertinent service roads and 
        parking areas;
            (B) the National Zoological Park comprising all the 
        buildings, streets, service roads, walks, and other areas within 
        the boundary fence of the National Zoological Park in the 
        District of Columbia and including the public space between the 
        said fence and the face of the curb lines of the adjacent city 
        streets; and
            (C) all buildings, service roads, walks, and other areas 
        within the exterior boundaries of any real estate or land or 
        interest in land (including temporary use) which shall hereafter 
        be acquired by the Smithsonian Institution by gift, purchase, 
        exchange of Government-owned land, or otherwise, when determined 
        by the Secretary of the Institution to be necessary for the 
        adequate protection of persons or property therein and suitable 
        for administration as a part of the Smithsonian Institution.

        (2) The National Gallery of Art and its grounds, which shall be 
    held to extend (A) to the line of the face of the south curb of 
    Constitution Avenue Northwest, between Seventh Street Northwest, and 
    Fourth Street Northwest, to the line of the face of the west curb of 
    Fourth Street Northwest, between Constitution Avenue Northwest, and 
    Madison Drive Northwest; to the line of the face of the north curb 
    of Madison Drive Northwest, between Fourth Street Northwest, and 
    Seventh Street Northwest; and to the line of the face of the east 
    curb of Seventh Street Northwest, between Madison Drive Northwest, 
    and Constitution Avenue Northwest; (B) to the line of the face of 
    the south curb of Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, between Fourth 
    Street and Third Street Northwest, to the line of the face of the 
    west curb of Third Street Northwest, between Pennsylvania Avenue and 
    Madison Drive Northwest, to the line of the face of the north curb 
    of Madison Drive Northwest, between Third Street and Fourth Street 
    Northwest, and to the line of the face of the east curb of Fourth 
    Street Northwest, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Drive 
    Northwest,\1\ and (C) to the line of the face of the south curb of 
    Constitution Avenue Northwest, between Ninth Street Northwest and 
    Seventh Street Northwest; to the line of the face of the west curb 
    of Seventh Street Northwest, between Constitution Avenue Northwest 
    and Madison Drive Northwest; to the line of the face of the north 
    curb of Madison Drive Northwest, between Seventh Street Northwest 
    and the line of the face of the east side of the east retaining wall 
    of the Ninth Street Expressway Northwest; and to the line of the 
    face of the east side of the east retaining wall of the Ninth Street 
    Expressway Northwest, between Madison Drive Northwest and 
    Constitution Avenue Northwest.
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        (3) The site of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
    Arts, which shall be held to extend to the line of the west face of 
    the west retaining walls and curbs of the Inner Loop Freeway on the 
    east, the north face of the north retaining walls and curbs of the 
    Theodore Roosevelt Bridge approaches on the south, the east face of 
    the east retaining walls and curbs of Rock Creek Parkway on the 
    west, and the south curbs of New Hampshire Avenue and F Street on 
    the north, as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Transfer of 
    John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts'', numbered 844/
    82563, and dated April 20, 1994 (as amended by the map entitled 
    ``Transfer of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts'', 
    numbered 844/82563A and dated May 22, 1997), which shall be on file 
    and available for public inspection in the office of the National 
    Capital Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

(Oct. 24, 1951, ch. 559, Sec. 9, 65 Stat. 635; Pub. L. 88-391, Sec. 3, 
Aug. 1, 1964, 78 Stat. 366; Pub. L. 90-376, Sec. 3, July 5, 1968, 82 
Stat. 286; Pub. L. 96-441, Sec. 3, Oct. 13, 1980, 94 Stat. 1884; Pub. L. 
102-336, Aug. 7, 1992, 106 Stat. 864; Pub. L. 103-279, Sec. 9(c), July 
21, 1994, 108 Stat. 1417; Pub. L. 105-95, Sec. 4, Nov. 19, 1997, 111 
Stat. 2149.)


                               Amendments

    1997--Par. (3). Pub. L. 105-95 inserted ``(as amended by the map 
entitled `Transfer of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts', 
numbered 844/82563A and dated May 22, 1997)'' after ``April 20, 1994''.
    1994--Par. (3). Pub. L. 103-279 added par. (3).
    1992--Par. (2)(C). Pub. L. 102-336 added cl. (C).
    1968--Par. (2). Pub. L. 90-376 designated existing provisions as cl. 
(A) and added cl. (B).
    1964--Pub. L. 88-391 amended section generally, and among other 
changes, redescribed buildings and grounds of the Smithsonian 
Institution and provided for inclusion of future acquisitions of land 
and buildings.

                         Change of Name

    ``National Museum of American History'' substituted for ``Museum of 
History and Technology'' in par. (1)(A), effective Oct. 14, 1980, 
pursuant to section 3 of Pub. L. 96-441 which is set out as a note under 
section 71 of Title 20, Education.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 193n of this title.
