{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-10-509.01","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 10-509.01","heading":"Designation of District employees to protect life and property outside the District; powers of arrest; weapons and uniforms.","body":"(a)\nThe Mayor of the District of Columbia may designate any employee of the District to protect life and property in and on the buildings and grounds of any institution upon land outside the District acquired by the United States for the District of Columbia for the establishment or operation thereon of any sanitorium, hospital, training school, correctional institution, reformatory, workhouse, or jail; provided, that such employee shall be bonded for the faithful discharge of such duties, and the Council of the District of Columbia shall fix the penalty of any such bond. Whenever any employee is so designated he is hereby authorized and empowered:\n(1)\nTo arrest under a warrant within the buildings and grounds of any such institution any person accused of having committed within any such buildings or grounds any offense against the laws of the United States, or against any rule or regulation prescribed pursuant to this subchapter;\n(2)\nTo arrest without a warrant any person committing any such offense within such buildings or grounds, in his presence; or\n(3)\nTo arrest without warrant within such buildings or grounds, any person whom he has reasonable grounds to believe has committed a felony in such buildings or grounds.\n\n(b)\nAny individual having the power to arrest as provided in subsection (a) of this section may carry firearms or other weapons and shall wear such uniform with such identification badge as the Mayor may direct or the Council by regulation may prescribe.","path":["Title 10. Parks, Public Buildings, Grounds, and Space.","Chapter 5. Regulatory Provisions.","Subchapter V. Protection of Property Outside of District."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/10-509.01","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"482f9f11b7df8a3bd9bed0c600dcaad030931e542b8e851b35bfd8e3973729f4","source_id":"us-dc","stale":true,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-10-507.01","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-10-509.01a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}