An Act to require premarital examinations in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 89-682 (H.R.3314), enacted 10/15/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-682-OCT. 15, 1966 
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attorney to make prompt compliance with the order of the panel or 
the trial commissioner a full statement of the circumstances shall be 
incorporated in the report of the panel. 
"(g) The Court of Claims is hereby authorized and directed, under 
such regulations as it may prescribe, to provide the facilities and serv-
ices of the office of the clerk of the court for the filing, processing, 
hearing, and dispatch of congressional reference cases and to include 
within its annual appropriations the costs thereof and other costs of 
administration, including (but without limitation to the items herein 
listed) the salaries and traveling expenses of the commissioners serv-
ing as trial commissioners and panel members, mailing and service 
of process, necessary physical facilities, equipment, and supplies, and 
personnel (including secretaries and law clerks)." 
SEC. 3. Section 792(a) of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: "The Court 
shall designate one of the commissioners to serve at the will of the 
court as chief commissioner." 
Approved October 15, 1966. 
Provision of 
facilities and 
services. 
Commissioners. 
67 Stat. 226. 
Public Law 89-682 
A N A C T 
October 15, 1966 
To require premarital examinations in the District of Columbia, and for other 
[H. R. 3314] 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reprei^entatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That all applications 
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for marriage licenses shall be open to inspection as public records. All aminaTfons^, re-" 
such applications upon which licenses have not yet been issued shall be quirement. 
kept together in a separate file readily accessible to public examination. 
SEC. 2. No application for a marriage license sliall be received unless 
there shall be filed therewith a statement or statements, upon a form 
prescribed by the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
signed by (1) a person in the District of Columbia certified by the 
Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer and 
interpret a standard laboratory blood test, (2) a physician licensed 
to practice medicine or osteopathy in the District of Columbia, a State, 
or a territory or possession of the United States, or (3) a commis-
sioned medical officer in the military service or in Public Health 
Service of the United States, that the applicant has submitted to a 
standard laboratory blood test within thirty days prior to the filing of 
such application, and that, in the opinion of such certified person, 
physician, or medical officer, based upon the result of that test, the 
applicant is not infected with syphilis in a stage of that disease in 
which it can be transmitted to another person. Such statement shall 
not disclose the technical data upon which it is based. 
Any such 
statement shall include the name of the person or laboratory adminis-
tering the test, the name of the test administered, the exact name of the 
applicant, and the date of the test. 
SEC. 3. If a judge of the United States District Court for the District 
of Columbia determines that public policy or the physical condition 
of either of the persons applying for a marriage license requires the 
intended marriage to be celebrated without delay, he may waive the 
provisions of section 2 of this Act and section 2 of the Act of August 12, 
1937 (D.C. Code, sec. 30-109), and a license may be issued without 
regard to such sections. 
SEC. 4. In any case in which a person is unable for financial reasons 
to obtain the services of— 
(1) a private physician, or 
Waiver. 
50 Stat. 626. 
Financial disa-
bility provi-
sion. 
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STAT. 
Confidential 
information. 
Penalty. 
Effective date. 
(2) any other person in the District of Columbia, certified by 
the Department of Public Health as duly qualified to administer 
and interpret a standard laboratory blood test, 
to conduct such test or sign the statement required by section 2 of this 
Act, any medical officer of the Department of Public Health of the 
District of Columbia is authorized to conduct such test and provide 
such statement at no cost to such person. 
SEC. 5. Any information obtained from any laboratory blood test 
required under section 2 of this Act shall be regarded as confidential by 
each person, agency, or committee who obtains, transmits, or receives 
such information. 
SEC. 6. Whoever— 
(1) knowingly divulges, other than in accordance with the pro-
visions of this Act, any information, derived from the laboratory 
blood test required by section 2 of this Act, relating to any person 
suffering, or suspected to be suffering from, syphilis, 
(2) knowingly misrepresents any fact called for by the state-
ment required by such section, or knowingly falsifies any material 
fact in connection with the laboratory blood test required by such 
section, 
(3) knowingly issues a marriage license without having received 
the statement required under such section or an order of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued 
under section 3 of this Act, or 
(4) otherwise fails to comply with any other provision of this 
Act, 
shall be imprisoned for not more than six months, or fined not more 
than $250, or both. 
Prosecutions for violations of this section shall 
be conducted by the Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon the expiration of ninety days 
after the date of its enactment. 
Approved October 15, 1966. 
October 15, 1966 
[H. R. 17119] 
Public Law 89-683 
AN ACT 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit members of the armed forcein 
to be assigned or detailed to the Environmental Science Services Administra-
tion, Department of Commerce. 
Armed Forces. 
Assignment of 
members to Com-
merce Department. 
70A Stat. 32. 
10 u s e 711-718. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houae of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 41 of 
title 10, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) by adding the following new section: 
"§ 719. Department of Commerce: assignment or detail to Envi-
ronmental Science Services Administration 
"Upon tlie request of the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of 
a military department may assign or detail members of the armed 
forces under his jurisdiction for duty in the Environmental Science 
Services Administration, Department of Commerce, with reimburse-
ment from the Department of Commerce. 
Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, a member so assigned or detailed may exercise the 
functions, and assume the title, of any position in that Administration 
without aft'ecting his status as a member of an armed force, but he is 
not entitled to the compensation fixed for that position."; and 
(2) by adding the following new item at the end of the analysis: 
"719. Department of Commerce: assignment or detail to Environmental Science 
Services Administration." 
Approved October 15, 1966.