3 U.S.C. § 16 : US Code - Section 16: Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint meeting

Search 3 U.S.C. § 16 : US Code - Section 16: Same; seats for officers and Members of two Houses in joint meeting

At such joint meeting 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 meeting 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 meeting of the two Houses,
no further or other recess shall be taken by either House.