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 PUBLIC LAW 94-524—OCT. 17, 1976

90 STAT. 2475

Public Law 94-524 94th Congress An Act To establish procedures and regulations for certain protective services provided by the United States Secret Service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976". SEC, 2, As used in this Act the term— (1) "Secret Service" means the United States Secret Service, the Department of the Treasury; (2) "Director" means the Director of the Secret Service; (3) "protectee" means any person eligible to receive the protection authorized by section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, or Public Law 90-331 (82 Stat. 170); (4) "Executive departments" has the same meaning as provided in section 101 of title 5, United States Code; (5) "Executive agencies" has the same meaning as provided in section 105 of title 5, United States Code; (6) "Coast Guard" means the United States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation or such other Executive department or Executive agency to which the United States Coast Guard may subsequently be transferred; (7) "duties" means all responsibilities of an Executive department or Executive agency relating to the protection of any protectee; and (8) "non-Governmental property" means any property owned, leased, occupied, or otherwise utilized by a protectee which is not owned or controlled by the Government of the United States of America. SEC. 3. (a) Each protectee may designate one non-governmental property to be fully secured by the Secret Service on a permanent basis. (b) A protectee may thereafter designate a different non-Governmental property in lieu of the non-Governmental property previously designated under subsection (a) (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "previously designated property") as the one non-Governmental property to be fully secured by the Secret Service on a permanent basis under subsection (a). Thereafter, any expenditures by the Secret Service to maintain a permanent guard detail or for permanent facilities, equipment, and services to secure the non-Governmental property previously designated under subsection (a) shall be subject to the limitations imposed under section 4. (c) For the purposes of this section, where two or more protectees share the same domicile, such protectees shall be deemed a single protectee. SEC. 4. Expenditures by the Secret Service for maintaining a permanent guard detail and for permanent facilities, equipment, and services to secure any non-Governmental property in addition to the one non-Governmental property designated by each protectee under subsection 3(a) or 3(b) may not exceed a cumulative total of $10,000 at each such additional non-Governmental property, unless expenditures in excess of that amount are specifically approved by resolutions adopted by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate, respectively. SEC. 5. (a) All improvements and other items acquired by the Federal Government and used for the purpose of securing any nonGovernmental property in the performance of the duties of the Secret Service shall be the property of the United States.

Oct. 17, 1976 [H.R. 1244] Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976. Definitions.

18 USC 3056 note.

Nongovernmental property, permanent security. 18 USC 3056 note.

Expenditures, limitations. 18 USC 3056 note.

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