An Act to provide for the transfer of rice acreage history where producer withdraws from the production of rice
PL 87-412 (H.R.9013), enacted 03/06/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-411-MAR. 3, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
March 3, 1962 
[H. R. 4934] 
Reservoir areas. 
Recreation facil-
ities. 
Public Law 87-411 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to modify certain leases entered into 
for the provision of recreation facilities in reservoir areaa 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ajisenibled^ That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized to amend any lease entered into with 
respect to lands under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service provid-
ing for the construction, maintenance, and operation of commercial 
recreational facilities at a Federal reservoir project so as to provide 
for the adjustment, either by increase or decrease, from time to time 
during the terai of such lease of the amount of rental or other con-
sideration payable to the United States under such lease, when and to 
the extent he determines such adjustment to be necessary or advisable 
in the public interest. No adjustment shall be made under the author-
ity of this Act so as to increase or decrease the amount of rental or 
other consideration payable under such lease for any period prior to 
the dat« of such adjustment. 
Approved March 3, 1962. 
March 6, 1962 
[H. R. 9013] 
Rice acreage al-
lotments. 
63 Stat. 1059. 
Public Law 87-412 
AN ACT 
To provide for the transfer of rice acreage history where producer withdraws 
from the production of rice. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 353 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 
1353), be amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (f) 
to read as follows: 
"(f) (1) If a producer in a State in which farm rice acreage allot-
ments are determined on the basis of past production of rice by the 
producer on the farm, dies, his history of rice production shall be-
apportioned in whole or in part among his heirs or devisees according 
to the extent to which they may continue, or have continued, his farm-
ing operations, if satisfactory proof of such succession of farming 
operations is furnished the Secretary. 
" (2) If a producer in a State in which farm rice acreage allotments 
are determined on the basis of past production of rice by the producer 
on the farm withdraws in whole or in part from rice production in 
favor of a member or members of his family who will succeed to his 
farming operations that portion of his rice history acreage as may be 
ascribed to such withdrawal may be transferred to such family mem-
ber or members, as the case may be, if satisfactory proof of such rela-
tionship and succession of farming operations by such family member 
or members is furnished the Secretarjr. 
"(3) If a producer in a State in which farm rice acreage allotments 
are determined on the basis of past production of rice by the producer 
on the farm permanently withdraws from rice production, his rice; 
history acreage may be transferred to another producer or producers 
who have had previous rice-producing experience, provided the fol-
lowing conditions are met: (i) The transferee must acquire the entire 
farming operation pertaining to rice, including all production and 
harvesting equipment, any irrigation equipment not permanently 
attached to the land, and any land owned by the transferor to which 
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any of the transferred rice history acreage may be ascribed; and (ii) 
the transferee must actually plant at least 90 per centum of his total 
producer rice acreage allotment, including the allotment determined 
on the basis of the rice history acreage acquired from the transferor 
for at 'east three out of the next four years following the transfer. 
Failure by the transferee to comply with condition (ii) above shall 
result in cancellation of the transfer of the rice history acreage. 
The 
transferor of rice acreage history under this subsection shall not be 
eligible for a producer rice acreage allotment for any year subsequent 
to such transfer, except to the extent that such allotment may be based 
on rice history acquired in a year (subsequent to the transfer) for 
which rice acreage allotments are not in effect. 
" (4) Upon dissolution of a partnership in a State in which farm rice 
acreage allotments are determined on the basis of past production of 
rice by the producer on the farm, the partnership's history of rice 
production snail be divided among the partners in such proportion as 
agreed upon in writing by the partners: Provided^ That if a partner-
ship was formed in a year in which allotments were in effect and is 
dissolved in less than three consecutive crop years after the partnership 
became effective, the rice acreage allotment established for the partner-
ship and rice history acreages credited to the partnership for each of 
the years during its existence shall be divided among the partners in 
the same proportion that each partner contributed to the allotment 
established for the partnership at the time such partnership was 
formed. 
The rice history acreage credited to each of the partners for 
the years prior to the time the partnership was formed shall revert 
to the person to whom it was originally credited." 
Approved March 6, 1962. 
Public Law 87-413 
AN ACT 
To provide for the appointment of two additional judges for the juvenile court 
of the District of Columbia. 
March 9, 1962 
[S. 486] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 19 of 
D. C. juvenile 
the Juvenile Court Act of the District of Columbia, approved June 1, *'°X'd d 111 o nai 
1938, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 11-920), is amended to read as J"f|*^ 
follows: 
52 Stat. 601. 
"APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, OATH, AND SALARY OF JUDGES 
"SEC. 19. (a) The juvenile court of the District of Columbia shall 
consist of three judges learned in the law and appointed by the Presi-
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Each judge 
appointed after the date of the enactment of this subsection shall serve 
for a term of ten years or until his successor is appointed and qualified. 
"(b) To be eligible for appointment as judge of the juvenile court 
a person must (1) have been a member of the bar of the District of 
Columbia for a period of five years preceding his appointment, (2) 
during a period of ten years immediately preceding his appointment, 
have been a resident of the District of Columbia or of the metropolitan 
area of the District for at least five years, of which not less than three 
years shall immediately precede his appointment, and (3) have a broad 
knowledge of socialproblems and procedures and an understanding of 
child psychology. For the purpose of this subsection the term 'metro-
politan area of the District' means Montgomery and Prince Georges 
Counties in Maryland and Arlington and Fairfax Counties and the 
• * Metropo 1 i t a n 
area of t h e Die' 
trict,»»