An Act to authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to enter into and renew reciprocal agreements for police mutual aid on behalf of the District of Columbia with the local governments in the Washington metropolitan area
PL 90-587 (S.2496), enacted 10/17/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-587-OCT. 17, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
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Approved October 17, 1968. 
Public Law 90-587 
October 17, 1968 
A N A C T 
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To authorize the Commissioner of the District of Columbia to enter into and 
renew reciprocal agreements for police mutual aid on behalf of the District of 
Columbia with the local governments in the Washington metropolitan area. 
D.C. Govern 
merit. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Commis-
p'oiice mutual 
siouer of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized in liis discre-
aid agreements. 
tion to entcr into aiid to renew reciprocal agreements, for such period 
as he deems advisable, with any county, municipality, or other govern-
mental unit in the States of Maryland and Virginia, in order to estab-
lish and carry into effect a plan to provide mutual aid, through the 
furnishing of policemen and other agents and employees, together 
with all necessary equipment, in the event of war, internal disorder, 
fire, flood, epidemic, or other public disorder which threatens or has 
occurred. 
SEC. 2. The District of Columbia shall not enter into any such agree-
ment unless the agreement provides that each of the parties to such 
agreement shall (1) waive any and all claims against all the other 
parties thereto which may arise out of their activities outside their 
respective jurisdictions under such agreement; (2) indemnify and 
save harmless the other parties to such agreement from all claims 
by third parties for property damage or personal injury which may 
arise out of the activities of the other parties to such agreement outside 
their respective jurisdictions under such agreement. 
SEC. 3. The policemen and other officers, agents, and employees of 
the District, w^hen acting hereunder or under other lawful authority 
beyond the territorial limits of the District, shall have all of the 
pension, relief, disability, workmen's compensation, and other benefits 
enjoyed by them while performing their respective duties within the 
District of Columbia. 
SEC. 4. The Commissioner of the District of Columbia shall be 
responsible for directing the activities of all policemen and other 
officers and agents coming into the District pursuant to any such 
reciprocal agreement, and the Commissioner is empowered to author-
ize all policemen and other officers and agents from outside the District 
to enforce the laws applicable in the District to the same extent as if 
they were duly authorized officers and members of the Metropolitan 
Police force of the District of Columbia. 
Approved October 17, 1968.