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[CITE: 40USC212a-5]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 212a-5. Capitol Police citation release


(a) In general

    The Chief of the Capitol Police, with the approval of the Capitol 
Police Board, may designate a member of the Capitol Police to have 
responsibility for citation release.

(b) Authority

    (1) In the same manner as provided for with respect to an official 
of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under 
section 23-1110(a) of the District of Columbia Code, the Superior Court 
of the District of Columbia shall have the authority to appoint the 
member of the Capitol Police designated under subsection (a) of this 
section to take bail or collateral from persons charged with offenses 
triable in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Pursuant to 
that authority--
        (A) the citation power described in subsection (b) of section 
    23-1110 of the District of Columbia Code shall be exercised by such 
    member of the Capitol Police in the same manner as by an official of 
    the Metropolitan Police Department; and
        (B) paragraph (4) of subsection (b) of section 23-1110 of the 
    District of Columbia Code, relating to failure to appear, shall 
    apply with respect to citations under subparagraph (A) of this 
    paragraph.

    (2) The United States District Court for the District of Columbia 
shall have the power to authorize the member of the Capitol Police 
referred to in subsection (a) of this section to take bond from persons 
arrested upon writs and process from that court in criminal cases in the 
same manner as provided for with respect to an official of the 
Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia under the 
third sentence of section 23-1110(a) of the District of Columbia Code.

(Pub. L. 104-186, title I, Sec. 108, Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1723.)
