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§7454 Buildings and Grounds: Memorial Hall; Buildings for Religious Worship

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— Army › Part III— TRAINING › Chapter 753— UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY › § 7454

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Only approved military memorials and items may go in the Academy’s memorial hall. Two-thirds of the Academy’s Academic Board must agree before anything is placed there, and the vote must be recorded to show who voted yes and who voted no. The Secretary of the Army can allow any religious group to build a place of worship on the West Point Military Reservation if it won’t interfere with military use and it costs the United States nothing. The group that builds it must remove or move the building, at its own expense and without payment, when the Secretary decides public or military necessity requires it.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7454

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The memorial hall at the Academy is a repository for statues, busts, mural tablets, portraits of distinguished and deceased officers and graduates of the Academy, paintings of battle scenes, trophies of war, and other objects that may tend to elevate the military profession. No object may be placed in this hall without the approval of two-thirds of the members of the Academic Board of the Academy by a recorded vote taken by ayes and nays.
(b)The Secretary of the Army may authorize any denomination, sect, or religious body to erect a building for religious worship on the West Point Military Reservation, 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 other 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) 4354(a)4354(b)10:1125.10:1126.
July 23, 1892, ch. 237, § 6, 27 Stat. 263.
July 8, 1898, ch. 636, 30 Stat. 722. In subsection (a), the words “and to prevent the introduction of unworthy subjects into this hall” and “entire” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b), 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 4354 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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7454

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60