An Act to amend section 3268 of the Internal Revenue Code so as to exempt certain recreational facilities from the tax prescribed therein therein, and for other purposes
PL 82-576 (H.R.5734), enacted 07/17/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 575-JULY 17, 1952 
[66 STAT. 
any such tolls or other charges for purposes of financing, acquiring, 
constructing, operating or maintaining any facility or facilities, all to 
the extent provided by and in accordance with the provisions of the 
aforesaid compact or agreement as amended and supplemented, as con-
sented to by the Congress, and the laws of the State of New Jersey 
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with respect thereto or to said 
commission: Provided^ That as a specific exemption from the provi-
sions of section 506 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended, 
the collection of tolls for the use of any bridge hereafter constructed 
or acquired by the commission, in excess of amounts reasonably 
required for the operation and maintenance thereof under economical 
management, shall cease at the expiration of fifty years from the date 
of the opening to traffic by the commission of the bridge latest con-
structed or acquired by said commission after the effective date of this 
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-^c^i and the rate of such tolls shall be subject to the provisions of 
section 503 of the General Bridge Act of 1946, as amended. 
SEC. 4. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Public Law 575 
CHAPTER 923 
July 17. 1952 
AN ACT 
[H. R. 3589] 
To amend title 17 of the United States Code entitled "Copyrights" with respect 
to recording and performing rights in literary works. 
Be it enacted hy the Seinate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Code* amindnl^nf' ^^*^^^ States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (c) 
61 Stat. 653. * of sectiou 1 of title 17, United States Code, is amended to read as 
follows: 
Literary^woriw^^ 
«(c) To deliver, authorize the delivery of, read, or present the copy-
performing rights, righted work in public for profit if it be a lecture, sermon, address or 
similar production, or other nondramatic literary work; to make or 
procure the making of any transcription or record thereof by or from 
which, in whole or in part, it may in any manner or by any method 
be exhibited, delivered, presented, produced, or reproduced; and to 
play or perform it in public for profit, and to exhibit, represent, 
produce, or reproduce it in any manner or by any method whatsoever. 
The damages for the infringement by broadcast of any work referred 
to in this subsection shall not exceed the sum of $100 where the infring-
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ing broadcaster shows that he was not aware that he was infringing 
and that such infringement could not have been reasonably foreseen; 
and". 
Effective date. 
SEC. 2. Thls Act shall take effect on the 1st day of January 1953. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Public Law 576 
CHAPTER 924 
July 17, 1952 
^^ ACT 
[H.R. 5734] 
To amend section 3268 of the Internal Revenue Code so as to exempt certain 
recreational facilities from the tax prescribed therein, and for other purposes. 
Be it ena/ited hy the Semite and House of Representatives 
of the 
Tax on bowling United States of Amsrica in Congress assembled, That section 3268 
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(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (relating to tax on bowling alleys 
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^^j^^ billiard and pool tables) is hereby amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following new sentence: "The tax imposed under this 
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section shall not apply for any period beginning after June 30, 1952, 
with respect to any bowling alley, billiard table, or pool table main-
tained exclusively for the use of members of the Armed Forces on any 
property owned, reserved, or used by, or otherwise acquired for the 
use of, the United States if no charge is made for their use." 
SEC. 2. Subsection (a) 
(4) (D) of the Renegotiation Act, as 
amended by section 201 (c) of the Renegotiation Act of 1951 and 
by section 617 of the Revenue Act of 1951, is hereby amended by 
striking out "October 31,1951" and inserting in lieu thereof "Decem-
ber 31, 1952". 
SEC. 3. Section 201 (h) of the Renegotiation Act of 1951 is amended 
by striking out "twelve months" and inserting in lieu thereof "two 1231 
years". 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
65 Stat. 23, 569. 
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1191 (a) (4) (D). 
65 Stat. 24. 
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Public Law 577 
CHAPTER 925 
AN ACT 
To provide for authorization of a study and report of irrigation works in 
connection with Chief Joseph Dam. 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 6163] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assetnbled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to proceed in relation to the Chief Joseph 
Dam project on the Columbia River, Washington, initially authorized 
by section 1 of the Act of July 24, 1946 (60 Stat. 637), in accordance 
with the provisions of this Act to make a study and report to Con-
gress on means of providing financial and other assistance in the rec-
lamation of arid lands in the general vicinity of the project. In mak-
ing such study and report the Secretary shall be guided by the 
provisions of applicable laws. 
SEIO. 2. The report of the Secretary of the Interior shall state, 
among other things, the construction cost of the proposed works, 
including said authorized project and proposed reclamation units; 
the portions of said cost allocable to various functions; the operation 
and maintenance costs of all functions (of the project); the amount 
of the construction cost allocable to irrigation which the irrigators 
may reasonably be expected to repay, together with the proposed 
charges for water service and proposed repayment period upon the 
irrigation allocation; the amount of the cost allocable to irrigation 
in excess of that which the irrigators can repay, which the Secretary 
proposes shall be recovered from power revenues; the proposed 
charges for power, and proposed repayment period on the amount 
allocable to power; the proposed interest rate on the power investment, 
and the disposition which the Secretary proposes to make of the inter-
est component and other components of the power revenues; the unre-
covered cost to the Federal Treasury of the works proposed, in con-
nection with the means of financing recommended by the Secretary; 
the ratio of net costs to net benefits; the ratio of net benefits per acre 
to irrigators' repayment per acre; and a complete financial analysis 
of repayment program together with all other data reasonably re-
quired to enable the Congress to pass upon the economic feasibility 
of the proposed works. 
SEC. 3. Any such reclamation works proposed to be constructed 
under the study authorized by this Act may be undertaken only after 
the Secretary of the Interior has submitted a report and findings 
thereon under section 2 of this Act and section 9 of the Reclamation 
Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), and only if the works so reported 
on are thereafter specifically authorized by Act of Congress. 
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Dam project. 
Sttxly and report 
of proposed recla-
mation works. 
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