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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 30 — Operation and Maintenance of Capitol Complex

§ 2183. Protection of buildings and property

Statutory text

The Sergeants at Arms of the Senate and of the House of Representatives are authorized to make such regulations as they may deem necessary for preserving the peace and securing the Capitol from defacement, and for the protection of the public property therein, and they shall have power to arrest and detain any person violating such regulations, until such person can be brought before the proper authorities for trial.

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. (R.S. § 1820.)

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 2183

    (R.S. § 1820.)

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (R.S. § 1820.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was classified to section 193 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.

R.S. § 1820 derived from acts Mar. 30, 1867, ch. 20, § 2, 15 Stat. 12; Apr. 29, 1876, ch. 86, 19 Stat. 41.

Credits

(R.S. § 1820.)

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