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[CITE: 40USC210]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 210. Uniform, belts and arms; Capitol Police

    The Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms of the 
House of Representatives shall select and regulate the pattern for a 
uniform for the Capitol police and watchmen, and furnish each member of 
the force with the necessary belts and arms, payable out of the 
contingent fund of the Senate and House of Representatives upon the 
certificate of the officers above named. Such arms so furnished shall be 
carried by each officer and member of the Capitol Police, while in the 
Capitol Buildings (as defined in section 193m(1) of this title), and 
while within or outside of the boundaries of the United States Capitol 
Grounds (as defined in section 193a of this title), in such manner and 
at such times as the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant at 
Arms of the House of Representatives may, by regulations, prescribe.

(R.S. Sec. 1824; Pub. L. 92-607, ch. V, Sec. 507, Oct. 31, 1972, 86 
Stat. 1508; Pub. L. 95-26, title I, Sec. 112, May 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 87.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1824 derived from act Mar. 30, 1867, ch. 20, Sec. 1, 15 
Stat. 11.


                               Amendments

    1977--Pub. L. 95-26 struck out ``at a cost not to exceed twenty 
dollars per man,'' after ``furnish each member of the force with the 
necessary belts and arms,''.
    1972--Pub. L. 92-607 directed that the arms be carried in the 
Capitol Buildings and within and without the boundaries of the United 
States Capitol Grounds according to regulations prescribed by the 
Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant at Arms of the House of 
Representatives.
