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[CITE: 40USC188b-1]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 188b-1. Duties of Commission


(a) In general

    The Commission is hereby authorized and directed to supervise, hold, 
place, protect, and make known all works of art, historical objects, and 
exhibits within the Senate wing of the United States Capitol, any Senate 
Office Buildings, and in all rooms, spaces, and corridors thereof, which 
are the property of the United States, and in its judgment to accept any 
works of art, historical objects, or exhibits which may hereafter be 
offered, given, or devised to the Senate, its committees, and its 
officers for placement and exhibition in the Senate wing of the Capitol, 
the Senate Office Buildings, or in rooms, spaces, or corridors thereof.

(b) Issuance and publication of regulations

    The Commission shall prescribe such regulations as it deems 
necessary for the care, protection, and placement of such works of art, 
exhibits, and historical objects in the Senate wing of the Capitol and 
the Senate Office Buildings, and for their acceptance on behalf of the 
Senate, its committees, and officers. Such regulations shall be 
published in the Congressional Record at such time or times as the 
Commission may deem necessary for the information of the Members of the 
Senate and the public.

(c) Consistency of regulations

    Regulations authorized by the provisions of section 193 of this 
title to be issued by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate for the 
protection of the Capitol, and any regulations issued, or activities 
undertaken, by the Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, 
or the Architect of the Capitol, in carrying out duties relating to the 
care, preservation, and protection of the Senate wing of the Capitol and 
the Senate Office Buildings, shall be consistent with such rules and 
regulations as the Commission may issue pursuant to subsection (b) of 
this section.

(d) Responsibilities of Committee on Rules and Administration of Senate

    The Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate in 
consultation with the Architect of the Capitol and consistent with 
regulations prescribed by the Commission under subsection (b) of this 
section, shall have responsibility for the supervision, protection, and 
placement of all works of art, historical objects, and exhibits which 
shall have been accepted on behalf of the Senate by the Commission or 
acknowledged as United States property by inventory of the Commission, 
and which may be lodged in the Senate wing of the Capitol or the Senate 
Office Buildings by the Commission.

(Pub. L. 100-696, title IX, Sec. 901(a), (b)(2), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 
Stat. 4610, 4611.)

                          Codification

    Section is based on section 2 of Senate Resolution No. 382, 
Ninetieth Congress, Oct. 1, 1968, which was enacted into permanent law 
and amended by Pub. L. 100-696.


                               Amendments

    1988--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100-696, Sec. 901(b)(2), substituted 
``protect, and make known'' for ``and protect'' and ``Senate wing of the 
United States Capitol, any Senate Office Buildings'' for ``Senate wing 
of the Capitol''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 188b-5 of this title.
