An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to prescribe the area within which officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia may reside
PL 84-797 (H.R.2603), enacted 07/25/1956

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Effective date. 
"(1) If the route of such transportation leaves and reenters the 
northern portion of the Western Hemisphere, such transportation 
shall be considered to consist of transportation to a point outside 
such northern portion, and of separate transportation thereafter. 
"(2) If such transportation is transportation by water on a 
vessel which makes one or more intermediate stops at ports within 
the United States on a voyage which begins or ends in the United 
States and ends or begins outside the northern portion of the 
Western Hemisphere, a stop at an intermediate port within the 
United States at which such vessel is not authorized both to dis-
charge and to take on passengers shall not be considered to be a 
stop at a port within the United States. 
For purposes of this subsection, the term 'northern portion of the 
Western Hemisphere' means the area lying west of the 30th meridian 
west of Greenwich, east of the International Date Line, and north 
of the equator, but not including any country of South America." 
(b) Section 4261 (d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (relating 
to payment of tax imposed on transportation of persons) is amended 
by striking out "The and inserting in lieu thereof "Except as pro-
vided in section 4264, the". 
(c) The first sentence of section 4291 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1954 (relating to cases where persons receiving payment must col-
lect tax) is amended to read as follows: "Except as provided in section 
4264 (a), every person receiving any payment for facilities or services 
on which a tax is imposed upon the payor thereof under this chapter 
shall collect the amount of the tax from the person making such pay-
ment." 
SEO. 5. The table of sections for part I of subchapter C of chapter 
33 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is amended by striking out 
"Sec. 4262. Exemptions." 
and inserting in lieu thereof 
"Sec. 4262. Definition of taxable transportation. 
"Sec. 4263. Exemptions. 
"Sec. 4264. Special rules." 
SEC. 6. The amendments made by this Act shall apply to amounts 
paid on or after the first day of the first month which begins more 
than sixty days after the date of the enactment of this Act for trans-
portation commencing on or after such first day. 
Approved July 25, 1956. 
July 25, 1956 
[H. R. 2603] 
Public Law 797 
CHAPTER 726 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to prescribe the 
area within which officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and 
the Fire Department of the District of Columbia may reside. 
D. e . Police and 
Firemen. 
R e s i d e n c e re-
quirements. 
Be it ejMcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress a^sernoled^ That (a) there shall 
be no limitation or restriction of place of residence of any officer or 
member of the Metropolitan Police force, or of the Fire Department 
of the District of Columbia other than residence within the Wash-
ington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district. For the purposes 
of this Act, "Washington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district" 
shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, 
be held to include the District of Columbia and the territory adjacent 
thereto within a radius of twelve miles from the United States Capitol 
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Building. Any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force 
or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia living outside 
of the District of Columbia shall have and maintain a telephone at 
all times in his residence. 
(b) For the purposes of this Act, the Commissioners of the District 
of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to prescribe 
the area constituting the "Washington, District of Columbia, metro-
politan district" so as to include the District of Columbia and the 
territory within any radius which is greater than twelve miles but 
not more than twenty miles from the United States Capitol Building. 
SEC. 2. No member of the Fire Department of the District of 
Columbia shall, unless on leave of absence, go beyond the confines of 
the District of Columbia, or be absent from duty without permission. 
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the right of officers 
and members of the Fire Department to reside anywhere within the 
Washington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district. Thirty days 
shall be the term of total sick leave in any one year without disallow-
ance of pay. 
Leaves of absence with pay of members of the Fire 
Department of the District of Columbia may be extended in cases of 
illness or injury incurred in line of duty, upon recommendation of the 
board of surgeons approved by the Commissioners, for such period 
exceeding thirty days in any one year as in the judgment of the 
Commissioners may be necessary. For the purposes of this subsection 
"any one year" shall mean a year from January 1 to December 31, 
both dates inclusive. 
SEC. 3. The following laws or parts of laws are hereby repealed: 
(1) Section 373 of the Revised Statutes of the United States 
relating to the District of Columbia (D. C. Code, sec. 4r-132). 
(2) The Act entitled "An Act to amend section 483 of title 20 of 
the Code of the District of Columbia as to residence of members of 
the Police Department", approved August 9, 1935 (D. C. Code, sec. 
4-132). 
(3) The second paragraph under the heading "FIRE DEPARTMENT" 
of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for 
the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the 
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen fourteen, and for other 
purposes", approved March 4, 1913, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 
4-409). 
(4) The Act entitled "An Act to amend section 559 of title 20 of 
the Code of the District of Columbia as to restriction on residence of 
members of the fire department", approved August 9, 1935 (D. C. 
Code, sec. 4-409). 
Approved July 25, 1956. 
Telephone. 
Fire Department. 
Leave. 
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Public Law 798 
CHAPTER 727 
;AN lACT 
juiy 25,1956 
To simplify accounting, facilitate the payment of obligations, and for other 
[H. R. 9593] 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Semite and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That (a) the account 
for each appropriation available for obligation for a definite period 
of time shall be closed as follows: 
(1) On June 30 of the second full fiscal year following the fiscal 
year or years for which the appropriation is available for obligation, 
the obligated balance shall be transferred to an appropriation account 
of the agency or subdivision thereof responsible for the liquidation of 
Go vemment obli-
gations. 
Accounting pro-
cedure. 
Merged accounts.