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[CITE: 40USC193f]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 193f. Capitol Grounds and Buildings security


(a) Firearms, dangerous weapons, explosives, or incendiary devices

    It shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons--
        (1) Except as authorized by regulations which shall be 
    promulgated by the Capitol Police Board:
            (A) to carry on or have readily accessible to the person of 
        any individual upon the United States Capitol Grounds or within 
        any of the Capitol Buildings any firearm, dangerous weapon, 
        explosive, or incendiary device; or
            (B) to discharge any firearm or explosive, to use any 
        dangerous weapon, or to ignite any incendiary device, upon the 
        United States Capitol Grounds or within any of the Capitol 
        Buildings; or
            (C) to transport by any means upon the United States Capitol 
        Grounds or within any of the Capitol Buildings any explosive or 
        incendiary device; or

        (2) Knowingly, with force and violence, to enter or to remain 
    upon the floor of either House of the Congress.

(b) Violent entry and disorderly conduct

    It shall be unlawful for any person or group of persons willfully 
and knowingly--
        (1) to enter or to remain upon the floor of either House of the 
    Congress, to enter or to remain in any cloakroom or lobby adjacent 
    to such floor, or to enter or to remain in the Rayburn Room of the 
    House or the Marble Room of the Senate, unless such person is 
    authorized, pursuant to rules adopted by that House or pursuant to 
    authorization given by that House, to enter or to remain upon such 
    floor or in such cloakroom, lobby, or room;
        (2) to enter or to remain in the gallery of either House of the 
    Congress in violation of rules governing admission to such gallery 
    adopted by that House or pursuant to authorization given by that 
    House;
        (3) to enter or to remain in any room within any of the Capitol 
    Buildings set aside or designated for the use of either House of the 
    Congress or any Member, committee, subcommittee, officer, or 
    employee of the Congress or either House thereof with intent to 
    disrupt the orderly conduct of official business;
        (4) to utter loud, threatening, or abusive language, or to 
    engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place upon 
    the United States Capitol Grounds or within any of the Capitol 
    Buildings with intent to impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly 
    conduct of any session of the Congress or either House thereof, or 
    the orderly conduct within any such building of any hearing before, 
    or any deliberations of, any committee or subcommittee of the 
    Congress or either House thereof;
        (5) to obstruct, or to impede passage through or within, the 
    United States Capitol Grounds or any of the Capitol Buildings;
        (6) to engage in any act of physical violence upon the United 
    States Capitol Grounds or within any of the Capitol Buildings; or
        (7) to parade, demonstrate, or picket within any of the Capitol 
    Buildings.

(c) Exemption of Government officials

    Nothing contained in this section shall forbid any act of any Member 
of the Congress, or any employee of a Member of the Congress, any 
officer or employee of the Congress or any committee or subcommittee 
thereof, or any officer or employee of either House of the Congress or 
any committee or subcommittee thereof, which is performed in the lawful 
discharge of his official duties.

(July 31, 1946, ch. 707, Sec. 6, 60 Stat. 718; Pub. L. 87-571, Aug. 6, 
1962, 76 Stat. 307; Pub. L. 90-108, Sec. 1(b), Oct. 20, 1967, 81 Stat. 
276.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-112.


                               Amendments

    1967--Pub. L. 90-108 struck out prohibition covering discharge of 
fireworks, ignition of combustibles, and making of harangues and 
orations, removed provisions making special allowance for use of 
construction tools actuated by or employing explosive charges, and 
inserted provisions prohibiting carrying or ready access to firearms, 
dangerous weapons, explosives, or incendiary devices upon the United 
States Capitol Grounds or within any of the Capitol Buildings, expanding 
area within which discharge of firearms or explosives are prohibited so 
as to include the interior of the Capitol Buildings, adding ignition of 
incendiary devices and use of dangerous weapons to list of acts 
prohibited within such areas, prohibiting transport of explosive or 
incendiary devices and knowing entry or stay with force and violence 
upon the floor of either House of Congress, prohibiting disorderly and 
disruptive conduct on the floor of either House of Congress, cloakrooms, 
adjacent lobbies, the Rayburn Room of the House or the Marble Room of 
the Senate, the gallery of either House, and Committee rooms, and 
excepting members and employees of the Congress in the lawful discharge 
of their official duties.
    1962--Pub. L. 87-571 permitted use of tools actuated by or employing 
explosives in construction, if the tools are of a kind ordinarily used 
for such construction, the Architect of the Capitol has authorized their 
use after determining they will not endanger life or safety, and such 
use is in accordance with his rules and regulations.


                    Effective Date of 1967 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 90-108 effective Oct. 20, 1967, see section 3 
of Pub. L. 90-108, set out as a note under section 193a of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 136, 174b-1, 184a, 193h, 
193i, 193j, 193k, 193l, 193m, 212a of this title.
