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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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[CITE: 40USC185a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 185a. Senate Garage; control, supervision, servicing of 
        official motor vehicles
        
    (a) The employees of the Senate garage engaged by the Architect of 
the Capitol for the primary purpose of servicing official motor 
vehicles, together with the functions performed by such employees, 
shall, on October 1, 1980, be transferred to the jurisdiction of the 
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate: Provided further, That, 
effective July 1, 1965, the underground space in the north extension of 
the Capitol Grounds, known as the Legislative Garage shall hereafter be 
known as the Senate Garage and shall be under the jurisdiction and 
control of the Architect of the Capitol, subject to such regulations 
respecting the use thereof as may be promulgated by the Senate Committee 
on Rules and Administration: Provided further, That, such regulations 
shall provide for the continued assignment of space and the continued 
furnishing of service in such garage for official motor vehicles of the 
House and the Senate and the Architect of the Capitol and Capitol 
Grounds maintenance equipment.
    (b) As used in subsection (a) of this section, the term 
``servicing'' includes, with respect to an official motor vehicle, the 
washing and fueling of such vehicle, the checking of its tires and 
battery, and checking and adding oil.

(June 30, 1932, ch. 314, 47 Stat. 391; Pub. L. 88-454, Aug. 20, 1964, 78 
Stat. 545; Pub. L. 96-444, Sec. 1(a)(1), (b), Oct. 13, 1980, 94 Stat. 
1889.)


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-444, Sec. 1(a)(1), designated existing 
provision as subsec. (a) and substituted provision transferring, on 
October 1, 1980, employees of the Senate garage engaged by the Architect 
of the Capitol for the primary purpose of servicing official motor 
vehicles, together with the functions performed by such employees, to 
the jurisdiction of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate 
for provision transferring, on July 1, 1932, employees engaged in the 
care and maintenance of the Senate garage to the jurisdiction of the 
Architect of the Capitol, without any reduction in compensation to these 
employees as the result of such transfer.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-444, Sec. 1(b), added subsec. (b).
    1964--Pub. L. 88-454 redesignated the Legislative Garage as the 
Senate Garage, transferred the authority to promulgate rules from the 
Vice President and the Speaker of the House to the Senate Committee on 
Rules and Administration, and directed that the regulations provide for 
the continued assignment of space and the continued furnishing of 
service for official motor vehicles of the House and the Senate and the 
Architect of the Capitol and Capitol Grounds maintenance equipment.


      Availability of Appropriations for Expenses of Senate Garage

    Title I of S. 2939, Ninety-seventh Congress, 2d Session, as reported 
Sept. 22, 1982, and incorporated by reference in Pub. L. 97-276, 
Sec. 101(e), Oct. 2, 1982, 96 Stat. 1189, to be effective as if enacted 
into law, provided in part: ``That appropriations under this head 
[senate office buildings] shall hereafter be available for maintenance, 
alternations [alterations], personal and other services, and for all 
other necessary expenses of the Senate Garage as authorized by the 
paragraph beginning `Capitol Garages' under the general heading 
`ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL' in the first section of the Act entitled `An 
Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes', 
approved June 30, 1933 (40 U.S.C. 185a) and Public Law 96-444 [amending 
this section and enacting provisions set out as notes under this 
section].''


  Unused Sick Leave and Unused Annual Leave of Transferred Employees; 
                Annuity Computation and Lump Sum Payment

    Section 1(a)(2), (3) of Pub. L. 96-444 provided that:
    ``(2) For purposes of section 8339(m) of title 5, United States 
Code, the days of unused sick leave to the credit of any such employee 
as of the date such employee is transferred under paragraph (1) 
[amending subsec. (a) of this section], shall be included in the total 
service of such employee in connection with the computation of any 
annuity under subsections (a)-(e) and (o) of such section.
    ``(3) In the case of days of annual leave to the credit of any such 
employee as of the date such employee is transferred under paragraph (1) 
[amending subsec. (a) of this section], the Architect of the Capitol is 
authorized to make a lump sum payment to each such employee for that 
annual leave. No such payment shall be considered a payment or 
compensation within the meaning of any law relating to dual 
compensation.''


 Appointment of Garage Attendants; Compensation; Longevity Compensation

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 96-444 provided that:
    ``(a) Effective October 1, 1980, the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper 
of the Senate is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of four 
garage attendants at not to exceed $14,100 per annum each.
    ``(b) If, and to the extent that, positions established by 
subsection (a) are first filled by individuals transferred under 
subsection (a)(1) of the first section [amending subsec. (a) of this 
section], the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate is 
authorized to fix, in lieu of the compensation prescribed in subsection 
(a), the compensation--
        ``(1) of not more than two of such positions so filled at not to 
    exceed $16,560 per annum each;
        ``(2) of one of such positions so filled at not to exceed 
    $15,485 per annum; and
        ``(3) of one of such positions so filled at not to exceed 
    $14,390 per annum.
Compensation fixed under this subsection for a position first filled by 
an individual transferred under subsection (a)(1) of the first section 
shall cease to be applicable with respect to such position on the date 
that such individual first ceases to occupy such position.
    ``(c) During any period with respect to which subsection (b) is 
applicable to a position occupied by an individual described in such 
subsection, such individual shall be credited, for purposes of longevity 
compensation, as authorized by section 106(a), (b), and (d) of the 
Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1963 (2 U.S.C. 60j), for service 
performed by such individual in the position of garage attendant, as an 
employee of the Architect of the Capitol, as certified to the Secretary 
of the Senate by the Architect of the Capitol.''


                       Applicability of Other Laws

    Section as unaffected by sections 193a to 193l, 212a, 212a-2, and 
212b of this title, see note set out under section 193a of this title.
