An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and for other purposes
PL 87-867 (H.R.12276), enacted 10/23/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-867-OCT. 23,1962 
[76 STAT. 
October 23, 1962 
[H. R. 12276] 
Public Law 87-867 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District 
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and for other purposes. 
FEDERAL FUNDS 
District of Co-
lumbia Appropria-
tion Act, 1963. 
Ante, 
p. 18. 
68 
Stat. 
104. 
D.C. 
Code 
43-
1602. 
D.C. 
Code 
43-
1540. 
D.C. 
Code 
9-
220. 
FEDERAL PAYMENT TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are ap-
propriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1963, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia 
(unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known as 
the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, 
and $30,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of 
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be ad-
vanced July 1, 1962), (2) the highway fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D.C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), 
including the motor vehicle parking account (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (Public Law 87-408), (3) the 
water fund (when designated as payable therefrom), established by 
law (D.C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,938,000, which is hereby ap-
propriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1962), and (4) the 
sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), 
established by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $961,000, 
which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 
1962) ; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $23,542,000, which, together 
with balances of previous appropriations for this jiurpose, shall re-
main available until expended, for loans authorized by the Act of 
May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 101), and the Act of June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 
183), to be advanced upon request of the Commissioners to the follow-
ing funds: general fund, $18,700,000, highway fund, $1,600,000, and 
sanitary sewage works fund, $3,242,000. 
FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION AND LOANS TO THE METROPOLITAN 
AREA 
SANITARY SEWAGE WORKS FUND 
For additional amounts for payment of the Federal contribution 
to the Metropolitan area sanitary sewage works fund of the District 
of Columbia, $300,000, and for loans to be advanced and credited to 
said fund upon request of the Commissioners, $2,500,000, both 
amounts to remain available until expended. 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS 
OPERATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for functions under this general head: 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
General operating expenses, plus so much as may be necessary to 
compensate the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian 
member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
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hereafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; $15,974,250, 
of which $350,000 (to remain available until expended) shall be 
available solely for District of Columbia employees' disability com-
pensation and $16f,000 shall be payable from the highway fund 
(including $48,000 from the motor vehicle parking account), $23,900 
from the water fund, and $6,400 from the sanitary sewage works fund: 
Provided, That the certificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient 
voucher for the expenditure of $2,500 of this appropriation for such 
purposes, exclusive of ceremony expenses, as they may deem necessary: 
Provided further, That, for the purpose of assessing and reassessing 
real property in the District of Columbia, $5,000 of the appropriation 
shall be available for services as authorized by section 15 of the Act 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), but at rates for individuals not in 
eo stat. sio. 
excess of $100 per diem. 
PUBLIC SAFETT 
Public Safety, including employment of consulting physicians, 
diagnosticians, and therapists at rates to be fixed by the Commission-
ers; the present acting captain of the Metropolitan Police in charge of 
the public vehicle unit with the rank and pay of captain while so 
assigned, the present lieutenant in charge of the Accident Investiga-
tion Unit of Traffic Division with the rank and pay of captain while 
so assigned, the present senior lieutenant assigned to the Robbery 
Squad with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned, the present 
lieutenant assigned as Pawn Inspector with the rank and pay of 
^^^/^ ,%,i^ ,, 
captain while so assigned, and the present lieutenant assigned as 
court liaison officer with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned; 
purchase of fifty-five passenger motor vehicles including forty-six 
for police-type use without regard to the general purchase price 
limitation for the current fiscal year (but not in excess of $100 per 
vehicle above such limitation) of which forty-four are replacements 
and nine for other replacement purposes; $57,587,800, of which $100,-
000 shall be transferred to the judiciary and disbursed by the Ad-
ministrative Office of the United States Courts for expenses of the 
,^. ^ 
Legal Aid Agency for the District of Columbia and $155,000 shall be 
payable from the highway fund (including $111,000 from the motor 
vehicle parking account) : Provided^ That not to exceed $50,000 of any 
funds from appropriations available to the District of Columbia may 
be used to match financial contributions from the Department of 
Defense to the District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the 
purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies approved by the 
Department of Defense, when authorized by the Commissioners: Pro-
vided further, That the limitation of $10,000 included under the head-
ing "Corporation Counsel" in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, for settlement of claims not in excess of $250 each is hereby 
74 stat. is. 
increased to $15,000. 
EDUCATION 
Education, including the development of national defense education 
programs and for matching Federal grants under the National 
Defense Education Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1580), as 
amended, $57,248,400, of which $574,200 shall be for development of 
20 use 401 
vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with "°*^-
the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, and the limitation of $6,000 
eo stat. 775. 
included under the heading "Public Schools" in the District of Colum- 
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bia Appropriation Act, 1961, for services of experts and consultants 
74 stat. 19. 
is hereby increased to $7,600. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
Act, approved May 10,1916, as amended, shall not apply from July 1 
39 stat. ssa. 
5 use 58, 59 
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[76 STAT. 
to August 25, 1962, to teachers of the public schools of the District 
of Columbia when employed by any of the branches of the United 
States Government or by any department or agency of the District of 
Columbia government. 
PARKS AND RECREATION 
Parks and recreation, including the purchase, acquisition, and trans-
portation of specimens for the National Zoological Park, $8,359,800, 
of which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
HEALTH AND WELFARE 
Health and Welfare, including reimbursement to the United States 
for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hos-
pital ; and for care and treatment of indigent patients in institutions, 
including those under sectarian control, under contracts to be made 
by the Director of Public Health; $65,386,300: Provided, That the 
inpatient rate and outpatient rate under such contracts and for services 
rendered by Freedmen's Hospital shall not exceed $32 per diem and 
the outpatient rate shall not exceed $5 per visit: Provided 
further, 
That this appropriation shall be available for the furnishing of med-
ical assistance to individuals sixty-five years of age or older who are 
residing in the District of Columbia without regard to the requirement 
of one-year residence contained in District of Columbia Appropriation 
59 Stat. 282. 
Act, 1946, Under the heading "Operating Expenses, Gallinger Munic-
ipal Hospital," and this appropriation shall also be available to render 
assistance to such individuals who are temporarily absent from the 
District of Columbia. 
HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
Highways and Traffic, including $63,400 for traffic safety educa-
tion without reference to any other law; the limitation of $200 
included under the heading "Department of Motor Vehicles" in the 
74 Stat. 24. 
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1961, for membership in 
the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators is hereby 
increased to $240; rental of three passenger-carrying motor vehicles 
for use by the Commissioners; and purchase of thirty-nine passenger 
motor vehicles, including thirty for replacement only; $11,418,000, of 
which $7,652,126 shall be payable from the highway fund (including 
$1,642,100 from the motor vehicle parking account) : Provided, That 
this appropriation shall not be available for the purchase of driver-
training vehicles. 
SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Sanitary Engineering, including the purchase of thirteen passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, $20,760,800 of which $204,000 
shall be payable from the highway fund (motor vehicle parking ac-
count) , $6,861,375 shall be payable from the water fund, and $3,936,650 
shall be payable from the sanitary sewage works fund. 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in com-
D.c. Code 8-106 pliauce with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
*'*'**• 
amended, the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended, the 
D.c. Code n- 
Act of May 14, 1948 (62 Stat. 235), and section 108 of the Act of 
103; 43-1540. 
j^^y ;^3^ ^^954 ^gg g^.^^ ^03), including interest as required thereby; 
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construction projects as authorized by the Acts of April 22, 1904 (33 
Stat. 244), February 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 91), May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 
105, 110), June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183), and August 20,1958 (72 Stat. 
686); including acquisition of sites; preparation of plans and specifi-
cations for the following buildings and facilities: New junior hi^h 
school, North Dakota and Kansas Avenues, Northwest, Bunker Hill 
Elementary School addition, new junior high school in the vicinity of 
48th and Meade Streets, Northeast, Hine Junior High School replace-
ment, Southwest Branch Library, and Engine Company Number 18 
replacement; for conducting a preliminary survey of the locking sys-
tem at the District of Columbia Jail; erection of the following struc-
tures, including building improvement and alteration and the 
treatment of grounds: Garrison Elementary School replacement, ele-
mentary school in the vicinity of Fifty-third and C Streets, Southeast, 
elementary school in the vicinity of Camp Simms, Hart Junior High 
School addition, Capitol View Branch Library, Palisades Branch 
Library, Kelly-Miller Swimming Pool, Third Police Precinct replace-
ment. Thirteenth Police Precinct replacement, Harbor Police Precinct 
replacement, Engine Company Number 8 replacement, consolidation 
and expansion of structures at the District oi Columbia General Hos-
pital, improvement of communications at Lorton Reservation, Chapel 
at the Maple Glen School, Dining Room addition and three children's 
cottages at the Junior Village, and Security Cottage addition at the 
Cedar Knoll School; $162,000 for purchase of equipment for new 
school buildings; to remain available until expended, $49,451,000, of 
which $14,500,000, shall not become available for expenditure until 
July 1, 1963, $9,871,142 shall be payable from the highway fund 
(including $60,000 from the motor vehicle parking account), $1,748,-
053 shall be payable from the water fund, $7,083,636 shall be payable 
from the sanitary sewage works fund, and $1,193,700 shall be avail-
able for construction services by the Director of Buildings and 
Grounds or by contract for architectural engineering services, as may 
be determined by the Commissioners, and the funds for the use of 
the Director of Buildings and Grounds shall be advanced to the appro-
priation account, "Construction services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds": Provided^ That not to exceed $300,000 of funds hereto-
fore appropriated under the heading "Capital Outlay" shall be 
available for purchase of furniture and equipment for new dormi-
tories at the District of Columbia Village. 
POTOMAC INTERCEPTOR SEWERLINE 
For an additional amount for necessary expenses for plans, specifi-
cations, acquisitions of rights-of-way, construction, and operation of 
a sanitary interceptor and trunk sewerline, to extend from the Dis-
trict of Columbia system to the Dulles International Airport; to 
remain available until expended, $2,800,000, to be payable from the 
"Metropolitan area sanitary sewage works fund". 
D.C. Code 43-
1510; 40-804; 
7-132; 9-220; 
40-804. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment by the designated certifying official and the vouchers 
as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the designated disburs-
ing official without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an ap-
propriation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such 
amount, unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maxi-
mum amount which may be expended for said purpose or object rather 
than an amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
Vouchers. 
Maximum amount. 
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Automobile al-
lowances. 
Travel ex-
penses. 
60 Stat. 810. 
60 Stat. 810. 
58 Stat. 532. 
D.C. Code 1-
243. 
Uniforms. 
D.C. Code 47-
1910. 
70 Stat. 78. 
D.C. Code 47-
1586J. 
SEC. 4. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when au-
thorized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for pri-
vately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties 
at 8 cents per mile but not to exceed $25 a month for each automobile, 
unless otherwise therein specifically provided, except that one hun-
dred and twenty-five (fifty for investigators in the Department of 
Public Welfare) such allowaiices at not more than $410 each per an-
num may be authorized or approved by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for expenses 
of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations concerned with 
the work of the District of Columbia government, when authorized 
by the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total expenditures for this 
purpose shall not exceed $65,000. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for services 
as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). 
SEC. 7. The disbursing officials designated by the Commissioners 
are authorized to advance to such officials as may be approved by the 
Commissioners such amounts and for such purposes as the Commis-
sioners may determine. 
SEC. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement 
of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requir-
ing the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with 
the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for 
operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates 
and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by 
the Public Utilities Commission. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 
2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 10. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated 
and utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 
1946 (5 U.S.C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control 
of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration of interchangeable 
use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except 
as otherwise provided in this Act. 
"Official purposes" shall not apply 
to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers 
and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation 
necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved 
by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations contained in this Act for Highways and 
Traffic, and Sanitary Engineering shall be available for snow and ice 
control work when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall be available when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without reference 
to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the 
furnishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 14. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia, including refunds 
authorized b^ section 10 of the Act approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 
108) : Provided^ That nothing contained in this section shall be 
construed as modifying or affecting the provisions of paragraph 3, 
subsection (c) of section 11 of title X I I of the District of Columbia 
Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
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SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and legis-
lative provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1963: Provided^ That 
the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be increased from 6 to 7 per centum of appropriations 
for construction projects. 
SEC. 16. The salary of the Controller for the Department of Public 
Welfare shall be at the rate of Grade GS-16 and the Commissioners 
are authorized to appoint supervisors of investigators for the Depart-
ment of Public Welfare at Grade GS-11 and investigators at Grade 
GS-9. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1963". 
Approved October 23, 1962. 
74 Stat. 17. 
74 Stat. 23. 
Short title. 
Public Law 87-868 
AN ACT 
To assist States and communities to carry out intensive vaccination programs 
designed to protect their populations, particularly all preschool children, 
against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus. 
October 23, 1962 
[H. R. 10541] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Bejyresentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Vaccination Assistance Act of 1962". 
SEC. 2. Part B of title I I I of the Public Health Service Act is 
amended by adding after section 316 the following new section: 
u, 
GRANTS FOR INTENSIVE VACCINATION PROGRAMS 
"SEC. 317. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
$14,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1963, and $11,000,000 
each for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1964, and June 30, 1965, to 
enable the Surgeon General to make grants to States and, with the 
approval of the State health authority, to political subdivisions or 
instrumentalities of the States under this section. 
Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this section for the fiscal years ending June 30, 
1963, and June 30, 1964, shall be availrble for making such grants 
during the fiscal year for which appropriated and the succeeding fiscal 
year. Such grants may be used to pay that portion of the cost of inten-
sive community vaccination programs against poliomyelitis, diphthe-
ria, whooping cough, and tetanus which is reasonably attributable to 
(1) purchase of vaccines needed to protect children under the age of 
five years and such additional groups of children as may be described 
in regulations of the Surgeon General upon his finding that they are 
not normally served by school vaccination programs and (2) salaries 
and related expenses of additional State and local health personnel 
needed for planning, organizational, and promotional activities in 
connection with such programs, including studies to determine the 
immunization needs of communities and the means of best meeting 
such needs, and personnel and related expenses needed to maintain 
additional epidemiologic and laboratory surveillance occasioned by 
such programs. 
"(b) For purposes of this section an 'intensive community vaccina-
tion program' means a program of limited duration which is so de-
signed and conducted as to achieve, with the cooperation of practicing 
physicians, official health agencies, voluntary organizations, and vol-
unteers, the immunization against poliomyelitis, diphtheria, whooping 
Vaccination As-
sistance Act of 
1962. 
58 Stat. 693; 
75 Stat. 824. 
42 u s e 243-
247a. 
"Intensive com-
munity vaccination 
program."