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[CITE: 40USC66]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 66. Improper appropriation of streets

    The Secretary of the Interior is directed to prevent the improper 
appropriation or occupation of any of the public streets, avenues, 
squares, or reservations in the city of Washington, belonging to the 
United States, and to reclaim the same if unlawfully appropriated; and 
particularly to prevent the erection of any permanent building upon any 
property reserved to or for the use of the United States, unless plainly 
authorized by act of Congress, and to report to Congress at the 
commencement of each session his proceedings in the premises, together 
with a full statement of all such property, and how, and by what 
authority, the same is occupied or claimed. Nothing herein contained 
shall be construed to interfere with the temporary and proper occupation 
of any portion of such property, by lawful authority, for the legitimate 
purposes of the United States.

(R.S. Sec. 1818.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1818 derived from Res. June 30, 1864, No. 56, 13 Stat. 
412.
    Section is also set out in D.C. Code, Sec. 7-1409.


                            Cross References

    Ejection of trespassers from public grounds, see section 19 of this 
title.
