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Title 2 — The Congress

Part C · Chapter 29 — Capitol Police

§ 1944. Wearing uniform on duty

Statutory text

The officers, privates, and watchmen of the Capitol police shall, when on duty, wear the regulation uniform.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 58–716 § 1 · 33 Stat. 85

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 1944

    (Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 89.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 89.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was classified to section 212 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, , 116 Stat. 1062.

The text of this section was taken from act , popularly known as the “Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending ”. Similar provisions were contained in the following prior appropriation acts:

Feb. 25, 1903, ch. 755, § 1, 32 Stat. 857.

Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 830, § 1, 31 Stat. 963.

Credits

(Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, § 1, 33 Stat. 89.)

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