An Act to amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to establish and operate motor vehicle pools and systems and to provide office furniture and furnishings when agencies are moved to new locations, to direct the Administrator to report the unauthorized use of Government motor vehicles, and to authorize the United States Civil Service Commission to regulate operators of Government-owned motor vehicles, and for other purposes
PL 83-766 (H.R.8753), enacted 09/01/1954

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Reports to Con-
gress. 
Trailers. 
Department of Defense may utilize appropriations otherwise avail-
able for the payment of quarters allowances for military personnel. 
The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Committees on Armed 
Services of the Senate and the House of Eepresentatives a quarterly 
report, the first of which shall be submitted three months subsequent 
to the date of enactment *of this Act, setting forth the cost, number, 
and location of housing units constructed or acquired pursuant to the 
authority contained in this section during the three-month period pre-
ceding the date of such report, and setting forth the cost, number, and 
location of the housing units intended to be constructed or acquired 
pursuant to such authority during the next succeeding quarter. 
SEC. 408. The Secretaries of the military departments are authorized 
to acquire a total of not to exceed five thousand units of trailers which 
may be made available at locations both inside and outside continental 
United States for occupancy by military personnel and their depend-
ents on a rental basis without loss of any allowances for quarters. 
Approved September 1, 1954. 
September 1, 1954 
[H. R. 8753] 
Public Law 766 
CHAPTER 1211 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended, to authorize the Administrator of General Services to establish and 
operate motor vehicle pools and systems and to provide office furniture and 
furnishinj?s when agencies are moved to new locations, to direct the Admin-
istrator to report the unauthorized use of Government motor vehicles, and 
to authorize the United States Civil Service Commission to regulate operators 
of Government-owned motor vehicles, and for other purposes. 
Federal Property 
and Admini strative 
S e r v i c e s Act of 
1949, amendments, 
40 u s e 471. 
Motor 
v e h i c l e 
pools. 
40 u s e 491. 
D e t e rminations 
by Administrator. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2 of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 
378), is amended by adding after the comma following the words 
"traffic management" the following: "establishment of pools or sys-
tems for transportation of Government personnel and property by 
motor vehicle within specific areas,". 
SEC. 2. The text of section 211 of the Federal Property and Admin-
istrative Services Act of 1949, as added by the Act of September 5, 
1950 (64 Stat. 583), is amended to read as follows: 
" (a) In order to carry out the policy, expressed in section 2 of this 
Act, to provide for an economical and efficient system for transporta-
tion of Government personnel and property, it is further intended by 
the Congress in enacting this section to (1) provide for the proper 
identification of Government motor vehicles; (2) establish effective 
means of limiting their use to official governmental purposes; (3) 
reduce the number of Government-owned vehicles to the minimum 
necessary for transaction of the public business; (4) provide wherever 
practicable for centrally operated interagency pools or systems for 
local transportation of Government personnel and property; and (5) 
establish procedures to insure safe operation of motor vehicles on Gov-
ernment Dusiness. 
"(b) Subject to regulations issued by the President pursuant to 
subsection (c), the Administrator shall in respect of executive agen-
cies, and to the extent that he determines that so doing is advantageous 
to the Government in terms of economy, efficiency, or service, after 
consultation with and with due regard to the program activities of 
the agencies concerned, (1) consolidate, take over, acquire, or arrange 
for the operation by any executive agency of, motor vehicles and other 
related equipment and supplies for the purpose of establishing motor 
vehicle pools and systems to serve the needs of executive agencies; and 
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(2) provide for the establishment, maintenance, and operation 
(including servicing and storage) of motor vehicle pools or systems 
for transportation of property or passengers, and for furnishing such 
motor vehicle and related services to executive agencies. 
Such motor 
vehicle services may be furnished, as determined by the Administra-
tor, through the use, under rental or other arrangements, of motor 
vehicles of private fleet operators, taxicab companies, local or inter-
state common carriers, or Government-owned motor vehicles, or com-
binations thereof. 
The Administrator shall, so far as practicable, 
provide any of the services specified in this subsection to any Federal 
agency, mixed ownership corporation (as defined in the Government 
Corporation Control Act), or the District of Columbia, upon its 
request. 
"(c) The President shall, within ninety days after the effective date 
of this section, issue regulations under this section to establish pro-
cedures for the taking effect of determinations made by the Adminis-
trator pursuant to subsection (b). 
Such regulations shall provide 
for adequate notice to executive agencies of any determinations affect-
ing them or their functions; for independent review and decision as 
directed by the President of any determination not mutually agreed 
upon between the Administrator and the agency concerned, includ-
ing exemption of any agency, in whole or in part, from any determina-
tion ; and for enforcement of determinations becoming effective under 
such regulations. No determination made pursuant to subsection (b) 
shall be binding upon any agency except as provided in such, 
regulations. 
"(d) The General Supply Fund provided for in section 109 shall 
be available for use by or under the direction and control of the 
Administrator for paying all elements of cost (including the purchase 
or rental price of motor vehicles and other related equipment and 
supplies) incident to the establishment, maintenance, and operation 
(including servicing and storage) of motor vehicle pools or systems 
for transportation of property or passengers, and to the furnishing 
of such motor vehicles and equipment and related services pursuant 
to subsection (b). 
Payments by requisitioning agencies so served 
shall be at prices fixed by the Administrator at levels which will 
recover so far as practicable all such elements of cost: Provided^ That 
the purchase price of motor vehicles and other equipment specified in 
this subsection shall be recovered only through charge for the cost of 
amortization: And provided fiurther^ That such costs shall be deter-
mined in accordance with the accrual accounting method and financial 
reports shall be prepared on the basis of such accounting. 
"(e) Any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to 
subsection (b) shall set forth in writing an analytical justification for 
the establishment, maintenance, and operation of each such motor 
vehicle pool and system. Such justification shall include a detailed 
comparison of estimated costs of present and proposed modes of opera-
tion, and a showing that savings can be realized by the establishment, 
maintenance, and operation of such pool or system. 
"(f) Whenever any such motor vehicle pool or system has been 
established pursuant to subsection (b), the Administrator shall main-
tain accurate records of the cost of its establishment, maintenance, and 
operation. 
If, during any reasonable period, not exceeding two suc-
cessive fiscal years, no actual savings are realized on the basis of the 
accounting for costs provided in subsection (d) the Administrator shall 
discontinue such motor vehicle pool or system, and shall return to the 
agency or agencies involved motor vehicles and related equipment and 
supplies similar in kind and of a value reasonably comparable to the 
value of the motor vehicles and related equipment and supplies there-
tofore received by the Administrator from such agency or agencies. 
59 Stat. 600. 
31 u s e 856. 
Regulations. 
P a y m e n t 
oi 
costs. 
63 Stat. 382. 
5 u s e 630g. 
Justifications. 
eost records. 
Di s continuance 
when no 
savings 
realized. 
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R e i m bursement 
for vehicles, etc. 
S c r i p , 
etc. 
tokens. 
Operating regula-
tions. 
klentification. 
Exemption. 
Violations. 
62 Stat. 
810. 
725. 
"(g) Whenever the Administrator takes over pursuant to subsection 
(b) any motor vehicle or other related equipment or supplies from any 
Government corporation, or from any other agency if such vehicle, 
equipment or supplies have been acquired by such agency through 
expenditures made from, and not theretofore reimbursed to, any 
revolving or trust fund authorized by law, the Administrator shall 
reimburse such corporation or fund by an amount equal to the fair 
market value of the vehicle, equipment or supplies so taken over. 
If 
thereafter, pursuant to subsection (f), the Administrator returns to 
such corporation or agency any motor vehicle, equipment or supplies, 
the Administrator shall be reimbursed by the payment to him, by such 
corporation or from such fund, of an amount equal to the fair market 
value of the vehicle, equipment or supplies so returned. 
"(h) When reimbursement is not required under subsection (g), 
the value, as determined by the Administrator, of any motor vehicle 
or other related equipment or supplies taken over under authority of 
subsection (b) may be added to the capital of the General Supply 
Fund, and in the event that property similar in kind is subsequently 
returned pursuant to subsection (f), the value thereof may be deducted 
from the General Supply Fund. 
" (i) The Administrator, in the operation of motor vehicle pools or 
systems, may make provision for the furnishing, sale, and use of scrip, 
tokens, tickets, and similar devices for the making of payment by 
using agencies for services rendered by the Administrator in the trans-
portation of property or passengers. 
"(j) The United States Civil Service Commission shall issue.regu-
lations to govern executive agencies in authorizing civilian personnel 
to operate Government-owned motor vehicles for official purposes 
within the continental United States, its Territories, and possessions. 
Such regulations shall prescribe standards of physical fitness for 
authorized operators and may require operators and prospective oper-
ators to obtain such State and local licenses or permits as would be 
required for the operation by them of similar vehicles for other than 
official purposes. 
The head of each executive agency shall issue such 
orders and directives as may be necessary to comply with such regu-
lations and shall make appropriate provision therein for periodically 
testing the physical fitness of operators and prospective operators and 
for the suspension and revocation of authorizations to operate. 
"(k) Under regulations prescribed by the Administrator, every 
motor vehicle acquired and used for official purposes within the United 
States, its Territories, or possessions, by any Federal agency or the 
District of Columbia shall be conspicuously identified by showing 
thereon either (1) the full name of the department, establishment, 
corporation, or agency by which it is used and the service in which it 
is used, or (2) a title descriptive of the service in which it is used if 
such title readily identifies the department, establishment, corpora-
tion, or agency concerned, and the legend 'For official use only': 
Provided^ That the regulations issued pursuant to this section may 
provide for exemptions from the requirement of this section when 
conspicuous identification would interfere with the purpose for which 
a vehicle is acquired and used. 
"(1) Whenever, during the regular course of his duties, there shall 
come to the knowledge of the Administrator any violation of the pro-
visions of section 5 of the Act of July 16, 1914, as amended (5 U. S. C. 
78), or of section 641 of title 18 of the United States Code involving 
the conversion by a Government official or employee of a Government-
owned or leased motor vehicle to his own use or the use of others, the 
Administrator shall report such violation to the head of the agency in 
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which the official or employee concerned is employed, for further inves-
tigation and either appropriate disciplinary action under such section 
5 or, where appropriate, referral to the Attorney General for prosecu-
tion under such section 641. 
"(m) Members of the uniformed services (as defined in the Career 
Compensation Act of 1949, as amended) may be directed by appropri-
ate regulation of the head of the executive agency in which they are 
serving to secure transportation necessary in conducting official Gov-
ernment business within the limits of their duty stations. 
Expenses 
so incurred by such members for train, bus, streetcar, taxicab, ferry, 
bridge, and similar fares and tolls, or for use of privately owned 
vehicles at a fixed rate per mile, shall be defrayed by the agency in 
which they are serving, or the personnel so directed shall be reimbursed 
for such expenses." 
SEC. 3. Section 210 of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding 
at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(g) Whenever an agency, or an organizational unit thereof, 
occupying a substantial and identifiable segment of space (building, 
floor, wing, and so forth) in a location controlled for purposes of 
assignment of space by the Administrator, is moved to such a sub-
stantial and identifiable segment of space in the same or another loca-
tion so controlled by the Administrator, furniture and furnishings 
used by the moving agency or unit shall be moved only if the Adminis-
trator, after consultation with the head of the agency concerned, and 
with due regard for the program activities of such agency, shall deter-
mine that suitable replacements cannot more economically and 
efficiently be made available in the new space. In the absence of such 
determination, suitable furniture and furnishings for the new space 
shall be provided, as the Administrator shall determine to be more 
economical and efficient, (1) from stocks under the control of the 
moving agency or (2) from stocks available to the Administrator, but 
the same or similar items shall not be provided from both sources. 
When furniture and furnishings are provided for the new space from 
stocks available to the Administrator, the items so provided shall 
remain in the control of the Administrator, and the furniture and 
furnishings previously used by the moving agency or unit and not 
moved to the new space shall pass to the control of the Administrator 
without reimbursement. 
When furniture and furnishings not so 
moved are carried as assets of a revolving or working capital fund at 
the time they pass to the control of the Administrator, the net book 
value thereof shall be written off and the capital of the fund dimin-
ished by the amount of such write-off. When furniture or furnishings 
which have been purchased from trust funds pass to the control of the 
Administrator pursuant to this subsection, reimbursement shall be 
made by the Administrator for the fair market value of such furniture 
and furnishings." 
SEC. 4. Such Act, as amended, is further amended by— 
(a) Inserting in the caption for section 211 in the table of contents 
to such Act, immediately before the period at the end thereof, the 
words "and operation". 
(b) Inserting at the end of the caption to the text of section 211 
of such Act the words "AND OPERATION". 
(c) Inserting at the end of section 3 thereof the following new 
subsection: 
"(1) The term 'motor vehicle' means any vehicle, self-propelled or 
drawn by mechanical power, designed and operated principally for 
highway transportation of property or passengers, exclusive or any 
vehicle designed or used for military field training, combat, or tactical 
Uniformed si 
63'stat. 802. 
37 u s e 231. 
580. 
64 Stat. 
40 u s e 490. 
Office furniture. 
64 Stat. 583. 
40 u s e 491. 
63 Stat. 378. 
40 u s e 472. 
' 'Motor vehicle. 
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Repeals. 
63 Stat. 532. 
42 u s e 214a. 
purposes, or used principally within the confines of a regularly estab-
lished military post, camp, or depot, and any vehicle regularly used 
by an agency in the performance of investigative, law enforcement, or 
intelligence duties if the head of such agency determines that exclusive 
control of such vehicle is essential to the effective performance of such 
duties." 
SEC. 5. Section 474 of title 14 of the United States Code and the 
proviso of section 204 of the Act of July 31, 1953 (67 Stat. 257), are 
hereby repealed. 
Approved September 1, <1954. 
September 1, 1954 
[H. R. 9709] 
Public Law 767 
- .. 
.; H,,,. 
CHAPTER 1212 
AN ACT 
To extend and improve the unemployment compensation program. 
U n e m p 1 oyment 
compensation. 
Number o f e m-
ployees. 
68A Stat. 447. 
68A Stat. 440. 
Reduced rates. 
New employers. 
Quarterly install-
ments. 
68A Stat. 758. 
49 Stat. 620. 
42 u s e 1305. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That, effective 
with respect to services performed after December 31, 1955, section 
3306 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is hereby amended 
by striking out "eight or more" and inserting in lieu thereof "4 or 
more". 
SEC. 2. Effective with respect to rates of contributions for periods 
after December 31, 1954, section 3303 (a) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1954 is hereby amended by adding after paragraph (3) the 
following: 
"For any person (or group of persons) who has (or have) not been 
subject to the State law for a period of time sufficient to compute the 
reduced rates permitted by paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this sub-
section on a 3-year basis, the period of time required may be reduced 
to the amount of time the person (or group of persons) has (or have) 
had experience under or has (or have) been subject to the State law, 
whichever is appropriate, but in no case less than 1 year immediately 
preceding the computation date." 
SEC. 3. Effective w4th respect to the taxable year 1955 and suc-
ceeding taxable years, section 6152 (a) (3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1954 is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 4. (a) The Social Security Act, as amended, is further amended 
by adding after title X I V thereof the following new title: 
"TITLE 
XV—UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMPENSATION 
FOR 
~ 
FEDERAL 
EMPLOYEES 
22 u s e 801 note. 
6 8 A Stat. 9 3 9, 
453. 
"DEFINITIONS 
"SEC. 1501. When used in this title— 
"(a) The term 'Federal service' means any service performed after 
1952 in the employ of the United States or any instrumentality thereof 
which is wholly owned by the United States, except that the term 
shall not include service performed— 
"(1) by an elective officer in the executive or legislative branch 
of the Government of the United States; 
"(2) as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 
"(3) by foreign service personnel for whom special separation 
allowances are provided by the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (60 
Stat. 999) ; 
"(4) prior to January 1, 1955, for the Bonneville Power 
Administrator if such service constitutes employment under sec-
tion 1607 (m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939;