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[CITE: 40USC193j]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 193j. Suspension of prohibitions against use of grounds

    In order to admit of the due observance within the United States 
Capitol Grounds of occasions of national interest becoming the 
cognizance and entertainment of Congress, the President of the Senate 
and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, acting concurrently, 
are authorized to suspend for such proper occasions so much of the 
prohibitions contained in sections 193b to 193g of this title as would 
prevent the use of the roads and walks of the said grounds by 
processions or assemblages, and the use upon them of suitable 
decorations, music, addresses, and ceremonies: Provided, That 
responsible officers shall have been appointed, and arrangements 
determined which are adequate, in the judgment of said President of the 
Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the maintenance 
of suitable order and decorum in the proceedings, and for guarding the 
Capitol and its grounds from injury.

(July 31, 1946, ch. 707, Sec. 11, 60 Stat. 719.)

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-124.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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