40 USC § 902 - Definitions

---
identifier: "/us/usc/t40/s902"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "40 USC § 902 - Definitions"
title_number: 40
title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
section_number: "902"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 9
chapter_name: "URBAN LAND USE"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1128.)"
---


# § 902. Definitions

In this chapter, the following definitions apply:

**(1)** **Unit of general local government.—** The term “unit of general local government” means a city, county, town, parish, village, or other general-purpose political subdivision of a State.

**(2)** **Urban area.—** The term “urban area” means—

**(A)** a geographical area within the jurisdiction of an incorporated city, town, borough, village, or other unit of general local government, except a county or parish, having a population of at least 10,000 inhabitants;

**(B)** that portion of the geographical area within the jurisdiction of a county, town, township, or similar governmental entity which contains no incorporated unit of general local government but has a population density of at least 1,500 inhabitants per square mile; and

**(C)** that portion of a geographical area having a population density of at least 1,500 inhabitants per square mile and situated adjacent to the boundary of an incorporated unit of general local government which has a population of at least 10,000.

---

**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1128.)

| RevisedSection | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 902 | 40:535(a), (b). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title VIII, § 806(a), (b), as added Pub. L. 90–577, title V, § 501, Oct. 16, 1968, 82 Stat. 1105. |