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[CITE: 40USC178]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 178. Vacant rooms; assignment to Representatives

    Any Member or Member-elect of the House of Representatives may file 
with the Architect of the Capitol a request in writing that any 
individual office room be assigned to him whenever it shall become 
vacant. If only one such request has been made for any room which shall 
at any time have become vacant, the room shall be assigned as requested. 
If two or more requests are made for the same vacant room, preference 
shall be given to the Representative making the request who has been 
longest in continuous service as a Member and Member-elect of the House 
of Representatives. If two or more Representatives with equal length of 
continuous service, or two or more Representatives-elect make request 
for the same room, preference shall be given to the one first preferring 
his request.

(May 28, 1908, No. 30, 35 Stat. 578; Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 124, 41 Stat. 
1291.)

                         Change of Name

    Change of name of Architect of the Capitol, functions abolished, 
transferred, etc., by prior acts, see Codification and Prior Provisions 
notes set out under section 161 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 177, 182, 183 of this title.
