Public Law 75–29

That it shall be unlawful to display any flag, banner, placard, or device designed or adapted to intimidate, coerce, or bring into public odium any foreign government, party, or organization, or any officer or officers thereof, or to bring into public disrepute political, social, or economic acts, views, or purposes of any foreign government, party, or organization, or to intimidate, coerce, harass, or bring into public disrepute any officer or officers or diplomatic or consular representatives of any foreign government, or to interfere with the free and safe pursuit of the duties of any diplomatic or consular representatives of any foreign government, within five hundred feet of any building or premises within the District of Columbia used or occupied by any foreign government or its representative or representatives as an embassy,

Police permits.

legation, consulate, or for other official purposes, except by, and in accordance with, a permit issued by the superintendent of police of

Unlawful assembly, etc.

the said District; or to congregate within five hundred feet of any such building or premises, and refuse to disperse after having been ordered so to do by the police authorities of the said District.

Sec. 2.

The police court of the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed in violation of this joint resolution;

Penalty for violation.

and any person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this joint resolution shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by

Proviso.

Picketing incident to bona-fide labor disputes.

imprisonment not exceeding sixty days, or both: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this joint resolution shall be construed to prohibit picketing, as a result of bona-fide labor disputes regarding the alteration, repair, or construction of either buildings or premises occupied, for business purposes, wholly or in part, by representatives of foreign governments.