2022 US Code
Title 3 - The President
Chapter 1 - Presidential Elections and Vacancies
Sec. 16 - Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint session

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Citation 3 U.S.C. § 16 (2022)
Section Name §16. Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint session
Section Text

At such joint session of the two Houses seats shall be provided as follows: For the President of the Senate, the Speaker's chair; for the Speaker, immediately upon his left; the Senators, in the body of the Hall upon the right of the presiding officer; for the Representatives, in the body of the Hall not provided for the Senators; for the tellers, Secretary of the Senate, and Clerk of the House of Representatives, at the Clerk's desk; for the other officers of the two Houses, in front of the Clerk's desk and upon each side of the Speaker's platform. Such joint session shall not be dissolved until the count of electoral votes shall be completed and the result declared; and no recess shall be taken unless a question shall have arisen in regard to counting any such votes, or otherwise under this subchapter, in which case it shall be competent for either House, acting separately, in the manner hereinbefore provided, to direct a recess of such House not beyond the next calendar day, Sunday excepted, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the forenoon. But if the counting of the electoral votes and the declaration of the result shall not have been completed before the fifth calendar day next after such first session of the two Houses, no further or other recess shall be taken by either House.

Source Credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 676; Pub. L. 117–328, div. P, title I, §110(c)(1), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5240.)


Editorial Notes EDITORIAL NOTES AMENDMENTS

2022—Pub. L. 117–328 substituted "session" for "meeting" in section catchline and wherever appearing in text.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 3 - THE PRESIDENT
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 3 - THE PRESIDENT
CHAPTER 1 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES
Sec. 16 - Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint session
Contains section 16
Date 2022
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 5, 2023
Positive Law Yes
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 62 Stat. 676
136 Stat. 5240
Public Law References Public Law 117-328
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