Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§9454 Buildings and grounds: buildings for religious worship
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle D— - Air Force and Space Force › Part PART III— - TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 953— - UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY › § 9454
Summary
The Secretary of the Air Force can allow any religious group to build a place of worship at the Air Force Academy if it won’t interfere with military use and won’t cost the United States anything. If the Secretary later finds that public or military needs require it, the group that built it must move or remove the building at its own expense and won’t be paid for it.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §9454
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The Secretary of the Air Force may authorize any denomination, sect, or religious body to erect a building for religious worship at the Air Force Academy, if its erection will not interfere with the use of the reservation for military purposes and will be without expense to the United States. Such a building shall be removed, or its location changed, without compensation for it and without expense to the United States, by the denomination, sect, or religious body that erected it, whenever in the opinion of the Secretary public or military necessity so requires.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 935410:1126.July 8, 1898, ch. 636, 30 Stat. 722. The words “in his discretion” and “Government of” are omitted as surplusage. The words “United States” are substituted for the word “Government”.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9354 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 9454
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73