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
PL 82-503 (H.J.Res.395), enacted 07/10/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 503-JULY 10, 1952 
[66 ST A T . 
(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 Admin-
istrator 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 da/s 
beginning not earlier than the eighteenth day of January in any year, 
troops participating in such ceremonies". 
Approved July 10, 1952. 
July 10, 1952 
[H. J. Res. 395] 
Public Law 503 
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. 
Inaugural c e r e-
monies. 
Maintenance of 
order, etc. 
Regulations. 
Publication. 
Violation. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representati'ves of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled^ That $55,100, or so much 
thereof as may be necessary, payable in like manner as other appro-
priations 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 transpor-
tation, cost of removing and relocating streetcar-loading platforms; for 
the construction, rent, maintenance, and expenses incident to the oper-
ation 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.