---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 U.S.C. § 505"
title: "36"
title_heading: "Patriotic and National Observances, Ceremonies, and Organizations"
number: "505"
heading: "Extension of wires along parade routes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/36/505"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Patriotic and National Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Part A — Observances and Ceremonies"
  - "Chapter 5 — Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies"
---

# §505. Extension of wires along parade routes


The Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior, and the [Inaugural Committee](/usc/36/501.md?p=1) may allow communications companies to extend overhead wires to places along a parade route that are considered convenient for use in connection with the parade and other inaugural purposes. The wires shall be removed not later than 10 days after the [inaugural period](/usc/36/501.md?p=2) ends.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1265.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 505 | 36:727. | Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 974, § 7, 70 Stat. 1050. |
|  | 36:730. | Aug. 6, 1956, ch. 974, § 10, as added Jan. 30, 1968, Pub. L. 90–251, § 4, 82 Stat. 4. |

The words “communications companies” are substituted for “telegraph, telephone, radio-broadcasting, and television companies” to eliminate unnecessary words.