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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 40USC193]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 193. Protection of buildings and property

    The Sergeants at Arms of the Senate and of the House of 
Representatives are authorized to make such regulations as they may deem 
necessary for preserving the peace and securing the Capitol from 
defacement, and for the protection of the public property therein, and 
they shall have power to arrest and detain any person violating such 
regulations, until such person can be brought before the proper 
authorities for trial.

(R.S. Sec. 1820.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1820 derived from acts Mar. 30, 1867, ch. 20, Sec. 2, 15 
Stat. 12; Apr. 29, 1876, ch. 86, 19 Stat. 41.
    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-105.


                       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.


                            Cross References

    Policing of Capitol Building and Grounds, see section 212a of this 
title.
    Use of Capitol Grounds as playground prohibited, see section 214 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 188b-1 of this title.
