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[CITE: 40USC212b]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--CAPITOL BUILDING AND GROUNDS
 
Sec. 212b. Regulation of traffic by Capitol Police Board


(a) Exclusive charge and control of all vehicular and other traffic

    The Capitol Police Board, consisting of the Sergeant at Arms of the 
United States Senate, the Sergeant at Arms of the House of 
Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol, shall have exclusive 
charge and control of the regulation and movement of all vehicular and 
other traffic, including the parking and impounding of vehicles and 
limiting the speed thereof, within the United States Capitol Grounds; 
and said Board is authorized and empowered to make and enforce all 
necessary regulations therefor and to prescribe penalties for violation 
of such regulations, such penalties not to exceed a fine of $300 or 
imprisonment for not more than ninety days. Notwithstanding the 
foregoing provisions of this section those provisions of the District of 
Columbia Traffic Act of 1925, as amended [D.C. Code, Sec. 40-301 et seq. 
and 40-701 et seq.], for the violation of which specific penalties are 
provided in said Act, as amended, shall be applicable to the United 
States Capitol Grounds. Prosecutions for violation of such regulations 
shall be in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, upon 
information by the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia or 
any of his assistants.

(b) Promulgation of regulations

    Regulations authorized to be promulgated under this section shall be 
promulgated by the Capitol Police Board and such regulations may be 
amended from time to time by the Capitol Police Board whenever it shall 
deem it necessary: Provided, That until such regulations are promulgated 
and become effective, the traffic regulations of the District of 
Columbia shall be applicable to the United States Capitol Grounds.

(c) Printing of regulations and effective dates

    All regulations promulgated under the authority of this section 
shall, when adopted by the Capitol Police Board, be printed in one or 
more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia, and 
shall not become effective until the expiration of ten days after the 
date of such publication, except that whenever the Capitol Police Board 
deems it advisable to make effective immediately any regulation relating 
to parking, diverting of vehicular traffic, or the closing of streets to 
such traffic, the regulation shall be effective immediately upon placing 
at the point where it is to be in force conspicuous signs containing a 
notice of the regulation. Any expenses incurred under this subsection 
shall be payable from the appropriation ``Uniforms and Equipment, 
Capitol Police''.

(d) Cooperation with Mayor of District of Columbia

    It shall be the duty of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, or 
any officer or employee of the government of the District of Columbia 
designated by said Mayor upon request of the Capitol Police Board, to 
cooperate with the Board in the preparation of the regulations 
authorized to be promulgated under this section, and any future 
amendments thereof.

(July 31, 1946, ch. 707, Sec. 14, 60 Stat. 720; July 11, 1947, ch. 221, 
61 Stat. 308; Pub. L. 87-873, Sec. 1, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1171; Pub. 
L. 88-60, Sec. 1, July 8, 1963, 77 Stat. 77; 1967 Reorg. Plan No. 3, 
Sec. 401, eff. Nov. 3, 1967, 32 F.R. 11669, 81 Stat. 951; Pub. L. 91-
358, title I, Sec. 155(a), July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 570; Pub. L. 93-198, 
title IV, Sec. 421, title VII, Sec. 739(g)(6), Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 
789, 829.)

                       References in Text

    The District of Columbia Traffic Act of 1925, as amended, referred 
to in subsec. (a), is act Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 443, 43 Stat. 1119, as 
amended, which appears in chapter 3 (Sec. 40-301 et seq.) and chapter 7 
(Sec. 40-701 et seq.) of Title 40, Motor Vehicles, of the District of 
Columbia Code.

                          Codification

    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 9-127.


                               Amendments

    1973--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-198, Sec. 739(g)(6), struck out ``, 
except on those streets and roadways shown on the map referred to in 
section 193a of this title as being under the jurisdiction and control 
of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia''.
    1947--Subsec. (b). Act July 11, 1947, Sec. 1, struck out reference 
to six months after July 31, 1946, as the time for promulgation of 
regulations and authorized amendment of regulations.
    Subsec. (c). Act July 11, 1947, Sec. 2, authorized certain traffic 
regulations to be effective immediately upon placing conspicuous signs 
containing notice of regulations at the places affected thereby and 
inserted provision for payment of expenses.

                         Change of Name

    ``District of Columbia Court of General Sessions'' changed to 
``Superior Court of the District of Columbia'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-
358, which provided that such change is effective first day of seventh 
calendar month which begins after July 29, 1970.
    Pub. L. 87-873, Sec. 1, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1171 and Pub. L. 88-
60, Sec. 1, July 8, 1963, 77 Stat. 77, both redesignated the ``Municipal 
Court for the District of Columbia'' as the ``District of Columbia Court 
of General Sessions''.


                    Effective Date of 1973 Amendment

    Section 771 of Pub. L. 93-198 provided that the amendment made by 
Pub. L. 93-198 is effective on Jan. 2, 1975, if a majority of the 
registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia voting on the 
charter issue in the charter referendum accepted the charter set out in 
title IV of Pub. L. 93-198, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 785. The charter was 
approved by the voters on May 7, 1974.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Except as otherwise provided in Reorg. Plan No. 3, of 1967, 
functions of Board of Commissioners of District of Columbia transferred 
to Commissioner of District of Columbia by section 401 of Reorg. Plan 
No. 3 of 1967. Office of Commissioner of District of Columbia, as 
established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 
1975, by Pub. L. 93-198, title VII, Sec. 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 
818, and replaced by office of Mayor of District of Columbia by section 
421 of Pub. L. 93-198, classified to section 1-241 of the District of 
Columbia Code. Accordingly, ``Mayor'' substituted in subsec. (d) for 
``commissioner''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

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