20 U.S.C. § 53
Section 53 · Protection of property
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Dong v. Smithsonian Institution (1997)
Most recently applied in 187 Md. App. 187 - CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Bickerstaff (August 2009)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
All laws for the protection of public property in the city of Washington shall apply to, and be in force for, the protection of the lands, buildings, and other property of the Smithsonian Institution. All moneys recovered by or accruing to, the institution shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, to the credit of the Smithsonian bequest, and separately accounted for.
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Codification
R.S. §5589 derived from act Aug. 10, 1846, ch. 178, §5, 9 Stat. 104.