Reading Room Document
Authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to Order the Closing of Certain Streets Located Along the Perimeter of the White House
18 U.S.C. § 3056 grants the Secretary of the Treasury broad authority to take actions that are necessary and proper to protect the President, including the authority to order the closing of certain streets located along the perimeter of the White House. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/20226/download.
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