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PUBLIC LAW 503-JULY 10, 1952

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(32 Stat. 152; 40 U.S.C. 31), is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: "and except that the Administrator of General Services and the respective heads of executive departments and establishments may allocate such space in any public building under their care and supervision as they deem necessary for the purposes of quartering, for a period of not exceeding five d a / s beginning not earlier than the eighteenth day of January in any year, troops participating in such ceremonies". Approved July 10, 1952. Public Law 503 July 10, 1952 [H. J. Res. 395]

Inaugural c e r emonies. Maintenance of order, etc.

Regulations. Publication.

Violation.

CHAPTER 659

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the maintenance of public order and the protection of life and property in connection with the Presidential inaugural ceremonies of 1953. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That $55,100, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable in like manner as other appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia, is hereby authorized to be appropriated to enable the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to maintain public order and protect life and property in said District of Columbia from January 15 to January 26, 1953, both inclusive, including the employment of personal services, payment of allowances, traveling expenses, hire of means of transportation, cost of removing and relocating streetcar-loading platforms; for the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the operation of temporary public comfort stations, first-aid stations, and information booths, during the period aforesaid, and other incidental expenses in the discretion of the Commissioners, Said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to make all reasonable regulations necessary to secure the preservation of public order and protection of life and property, and to make special regulations, respecting the standing, movements, and operating of vehicles of whatever character or kind during said period; and to grant, under such conditions as they may impose, special licenses to peddlers and vendors to sell goods, wares, and merchandise on the streets, avenues, and sidewalks in the District of Columbia, and to charge for such privilege such fees as they may deem proper. SEC, 2, The regulations and licenses authorized by this Act shall be in full force and effect only during the period January 15 to January 26, 1953, both inclusive. Such regulations shall be published in one or more of the daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia and no penalty prescribed for the violation of any such regulation shall be enforced until five days after such publication. Any person violating any regulation promulgated by the Commissioners under the authority of and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall upon conviction thereof in the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned for not more than thirty days. Each and every day a violation of any such regulation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and the penalty prescribed herein shall be applicable to each such separate offense. Approved July 10, 1952.

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