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[CITE: 40USC56]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 56. Unauthorized opening

    No person, unless by consent of the Chief of Engineers, shall tap or 
open the mains or pipes laid or hereafter to be laid by the United 
States, under a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $500.

(R.S. Sec. 1803; Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 339, Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 983.)

                          Codification

    The words ``in charge of public buildings and works'' which followed 
``Chief of Engineers'' were omitted in view of the abolition of the 
Office of Public Buildings and Grounds under the Chief of Engineers and 
the transfer of certain functions of the Chief of Engineers to the 
Director of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital by 
act Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 339, Sec. 3, 43 Stat. 983. For further details, 
see notes set out under section 19 of this title.
    R.S. Sec. 1803 derived from act Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 84, Sec. 5, 11 
Stat. 436.
    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 43-1550.
