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[CITE: 40USC101]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 101. Laws of District extended to public buildings and 
        grounds
        
    The provisions of the several laws and regulations within the 
District of Columbia for the protection of public or private property 
and the preservation of peace and order are extended to all public 
buildings and public grounds belonging to the United States within the 
District of Columbia. Any person guilty of disorderly and unlawful 
conduct in or about the same, or who shall willfully injure the 
buildings or shrubs, or shall pull down, impair, or otherwise injure any 
fence, wall, or other inclosure, or shall injure any sink, culvert, 
pipe, hydrant, cistern, lamp, or bridge, or shall remove any stone, 
gravel, sand, or other property of the United States, or any other part 
of the public grounds or lots belonging to the United States in the 
District of Columbia shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned 
not more than six months, or both.

(July 29, 1892, ch. 320, Sec. 15, 27 Stat. 325; Pub. L. 90-108, Sec. 2, 
Oct. 20, 1967, 81 Stat. 277.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Secs. 4-116, 22-3111.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained 
in former section 192 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-108 substituted ``shall be fined not more than 
$500, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both'' for ``shall, 
upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $50''.


                   Violations Prior to 1967 Amendment

    For prosecution of violations of this section prior to enactment of 
Pub. L. 90-108, see section 3 of Pub. L. 90-108, set out as an Effective 
Date of 1967 Amendment note under section 193a of this title.


                          Effect of Other Laws

    Section as unaffected by sections 193a to 193l, 212a, 212b of this 
title, see note set out under section 193a of this title.


                      Board of Metropolitan Police

    Duties and authority of former Board of Metropolitan Police of 
District of Columbia, for police purposes, were extended to all public 
squares and places, and authorizing and requiring Board to make 
appropriate rules and regulations in relation thereto, by act Mar. 3, 
1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat. 385, and repeated in act July 31, 1876, ch. 246, 
19 Stat. 110, and act Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 105, 19 Stat. 346. Powers and 
duties exercised by Board transferred to Commissioners of District of 
Columbia by act June 11, 1878, ch. 180, Sec. 6, 20 Stat. 107.


                            Special Policemen

    The provision of act Oct. 26, 1942, ch. 629, title II, 56 Stat. 
1000, which related to designation by Commissioner of Public Buildings 
of employees of Public Buildings Administration as special policemen 
without compensation during continuance of unlimited national emergency 
declared by President on May 27, 1941, was repealed, effective July 1, 
1948, by Joint Res. July 25, 1947, ch. 327, Sec. 2(a), 61 Stat. 451.
