Title 3 — The President
Chapter 1 — Presidential Elections and Vacancies
§ 16. Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint session
Statutory text
At such joint session of the two Houses seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker’s chair; for the Speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the Hall upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives, in the body of the Hall not provided for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk’s desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk’s desk and upon each side of the Speaker’s platform. Such joint session shall not be dissolved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this subchapter, in which case it shall be competent for either House, acting separately, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess of such House not beyond the next calendar day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon. But if the counting of the electoral votes and the declaration of the result shall not have been completed before the fifth calendar day next after such first session of the two Houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either House.
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.
The President
Pub. L. 80–644 · 62 Stat. 672
Enacted · 3 U.S.C. § 16
June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676Department of Commerce Appropriations Act, 2023
Pub. L. 117–328 div. P title I § 110(c)(1) · 136 Stat. 4459
Substituted · 3 U.S.C. § 16
Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “session” for “meeting” in section catchline and wherever appearing in text
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “session” for “meeting” in section catchline and wherever appearing in text.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any prior appropriations Act that remain available for obligation, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Economics and Statistics Administration of the Department of Commerce, including amounts provided for programs of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agreements with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, to aid and promote statistical, research, and methodology activities which further the purposes for which such amounts have been made available.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2022—Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “session” for “meeting” in section catchline and wherever appearing in text.
Credits
1948–2022 · 2 acts
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676
- 2022Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 110(c)(1), , 136 Stat. 5240.
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(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, § 110(c)(1), , 136 Stat. 5240.)