Joint resolution to authorize the quartering in public buildings in the District of Columbia of troops participating in inaugural ceremonies
PL 82-502 (H.J.Res.394), enacted 07/10/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 502-JULY 10, 1952 
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in January 1953. All stands or platforms that may be erected on 
public space shall be under the supervision of the inaugural committee. 
No stand shall be built on the sidewalks, streets, parks, and public 
grounds of the District of Columbia, other than the area on the south 
side of Pennsylvania Avenue directly in front of the White House, 
except with the approval of the inaugural committee, the director of 
inspection of the District of Columbia, and the Administrator of 
General Services. The reservations or public spaces occupied by the 
stands or other structures shall, after the inauguration, be promptly 
restored to their previous condition. 
The inaugural committee shall 
indemnify the appropriate agency of the Government for any damage 
to such reservations or spaces. 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are author-
ized to permit the inaugural committee to stretch suitable overhead 
conductors, with sufficient supports, for illumination and other pur-
poses. If it shall be necessary to erect wires for illuminating or other 
purposes over any park or reservation in the District of Columbia, 
the work of erection and removal shall be under the supervision of 
the official in charge of said park or reservation. 
Such conductors 
with their supports shall be removed on or before January 31, 1953. 
The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or such other officials 
as may have jurisdiction in the premises, shall enforce the provisions 
of this joint resolution, take needful precautions for the protection 
of the public, and insure that the pavement of any street, avenue, or 
alley disturbed is replaced in its previous condition. No expense or 
damage from the stretching, operation, or removal of the temporary 
overhead conductors shall be incurred by the United States or the 
District of Columbia. 
SEC. 3. The Secretarv of Defense is authorized to lend to the Com-
mittee on Inaugural Ceremonies such hospital tents, smaller tents, 
camp appliances, hospital furniture, ensigns, flags, ambulances, drivers, 
stretchers, and Red Cross flags and poles (except battle flags), as may, 
in their judgment, be spared without detriment to the public service. 
Such loans shall be returned by the 26th day of January 1953. The 
committee shall indemnify the Government for any loss or damage 
to such flags not necessarily incident to such use. 
SEC. 4, The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Admin-
istrator of General Services, and the inaugural committee are author-
ized to permit telegraph, telephone, radio-broadcasting, and television 
companies to extend overhead wires to such points alon^ the line of 
parade as shall be deemed convenient for use in connection with the 
parade and other inaugural purposes. 
Such wires shall be removed 
within ten days after the conclusion of the ceremonies. 
Approved July 10, 1952. 
D. C. C o m m i s -
sioners. 
Secretary of De-
fense. 
Overhead wires. 
Public Law 502 
CHAPTER 658 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the quartering in public buildings in the District of Columbia of 
troops participating in inaugural ceremonies. 
July 10, 1952 
[H. J. Res. 394] 
Resolved 
hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ That the fourth 
paragraph under the heading "State, War, and Navy Department 
Building" in the first section of the Act entitled "An Act making 
appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses 
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and three, and for other purposes", approved April 28, 1902 
Inaugural cer«!-
monies. 
Qu a r t e r i n g of 
troopis. 
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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 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.