Title 2 — The Congress
Part D · Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex
§ 2134. Art exhibits
Statutory text
No work of art or manufacture other than the property of the United States shall be exhibited in the National Statuary Hall, the Rotunda, Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center, or the corridors of the Capitol.
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.
R.S. § 1815
Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 2134
R.S. § 1815
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code source credit
R.S. § 1815Capitol Visitor Center Act of 2008
Pub. L. 110–437 title I § 101(f)(2) · 122 Stat. 4983
Inserted · 2 U.S.C. § 2134
Pub. L. 110–437 inserted “Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center,” after “Rotunda,”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 110–437 inserted “Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center,” after “Rotunda,”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(2) Exhibition prohibition.— Section 1815 of the Revised Statutes (2 U.S.C. 2134) is amended by inserting “Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center,” after “Rotunda,”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was classified to section 189 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.
Section is based on act , popularly known as the “Sundry Civil Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1879”.
R.S. § 1815 derived from act July 20, 1868, ch. 176, § 6, 15 Stat. 110.
Amendments
2008—Pub. L. 110–437 inserted “Emancipation Hall of the Capitol Visitor Center,” after “Rotunda,”.
Credits
1875–2008 · 4 acts
- R.S. § 1815
- 1875Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat. 376
- 1879Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 182, 20 Stat. 391
- 2008Pub. L. 110–437, title I, § 101(f)(2), , 122 Stat. 4985.
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(R.S. § 1815; Mar. 3, 1875, ch. 130, 18 Stat. 376; Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 182, 20 Stat. 391; Pub. L. 110–437, title I, § 101(f)(2), , 122 Stat. 4985.)