Joint resolution authorizing the Commission established to reix)rt nixHi the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to comiH*! the attendan<'e and testimony of witnesses and the production of evidence
PL 88-202 (S.J.Res.137), enacted 12/13/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-202-DEC. 13, 1963 
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(2) The term "motor vehicle" means any other vehicle or machine 
propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used on the highways 
principally in the transportation of passengers. 
(3) The term "seat belt" means any strap, webbing, or similar 
device designed to secure a passenger in a motor vehicle in order to 
mitigate the results of any accident, including all necessary buckles, 
and other fasteners, and all hardware designed for installing such 
seat belt in a motor vehicle. 
Effective date. 
SEC. 4. Tliis Act shall take effect on the date of its enactment except 
that section 2 shall take effect on such date as the Secretary of Com-
merce shall determine but such date shall be not less than one hundred 
and eighty days nor more than one year after the date of publication 
of standards first established under the first section of this Act, 
If 
such standards first established are thereafter changed, such standards 
as so changed shall take effect on such date as the Secretary of Com-
merce shall determine but such date shall be not less than one hundred 
and eighty days nor more than one year after the date of their publi-
cation m accordance with the provisions of the first section of this Act. 
Approved December 13, 1963. 
Public Law 88-202 
December 13, 1963 
[S. J. Res, 137] 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Authorizing the Commission established to reix)rt nixHi the assassination of 
President John F. Kennedy to comiH*! the attendan<'e and testimony of wit-
nesses and the production of evidence. 
Commission in-
vestigating as-
sassination of 
President John 
F. Kennedy. 
Subpena power, 
28 F.R. 12789. 
Manner of serv-
ice. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Co7igress asse?nhhd, That (a) for the purposes 
of this joint resolution, the term "Commission" means the Commission 
appointed by the President by Executive Order 11130, dated November 
29, 1963. 
(b) The Commission, or any member of the Commission when so 
authorized by the Commission, shall have jDower to issue subpenas 
requiring the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the produc-
tion of any evidence that relates to any matter under investigation by 
the Commission. The Comiiiission, or any member of the Commission 
or any agent or agency designated by the Commission for such pur-
pose, may administer oaths and affirmations, examine witnesses, and 
receive evidence. Such attendance of witnesses and the production of 
such evidence may be required from any place within the TJnited States 
at any designated place of hearing. 
(c) In case of contumacy or refusal to obey a subpena issued to any 
person under subsection (b), any court of the United States within 
the jurisdiction of which the inquiry is carried on or within the juris-
diction of which said person guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey 
is found or resides or transacts business, upon application by the Com-
mission shall have jurisdiction to issue to such person an order requir-
ing such person to appear before the Commission, its member, agent, 
or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give tes-
timony touching the matter under investigation or in question; and 
any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said 
court as a contempt thereof. 
(d) Process and papers of the Connnission, its members, agent, or 
agency, may be served either upon the witness in person or by regis-
tered mail or by telegraph or by leaving a copy thereof at the residence 
or principal office or place of business of the person required to be 
served. The verified return by the individual so serving the same, set-
ting forth the manner of such service, shall be proof of the same, and 
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the return post office receipt or telegraph receipt therefor when regis-
tered and mailed or telegraphed as aforesaid shall be proof of service of 
the same. Witnesses summoned before the Commission, its members, 
agent, or agency, shall be paid the same fees and mileage that are 
paid witnesses in the courts of the United States, and witnesses whose 
depositions are taken and the persons taking the same shall severally 
be entitled to the same fees as are paid for like services in the courts 
of the United States. 
(e) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or 
Privilege 
from producing books, records, correspondence, documents, or other fnctim^nlum 
evidence in obedience to a subpena, on the ground that the testimony 
or evidence required of him mav tend to incriminate him or subject 
him to a penalty or forfeiture; but no individual shall be prosecuted 
or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture (except demotion or removal 
from office) for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing con-
cerning which he is compelled, after having claimed his privilege 
against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that 
such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and 
pimishment for perjury committed hi so testifying. 
(f) All process of any court to which application may be made under 
piace of 
this Act may be served in the judicial district wherein the person service. 
required to be served resides or may lie found. 
Approved December 13, 1963. 
Public Law 88-203 
A N A C T 
December 13, 1963 
To amend title V of the Agricultural Act of 1
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Be It enacted hy the Senate atul House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ Tliat section 510 
Mexican farm 
of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended by striking labor program. 
••December 31, 1963" and inserting "Deceml)er 31, 1964". 
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Approved December 13, 1963. 
7usc neiinote. 
Public Law 88-204 
AN ACT 
To authorize assistance to public and other nonprofit institutions of higher 
education in financing the construction, rehabilitation, or improvement of 
needed academic and related facilities in undergraduate and graduate insti-
tutions. 
December 16, 1963 
[H. R. 6143] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Higher Education Facilities Act of 1963". 
Higher Educa-
tion Facilities 
Act of 1963. 
FINDINGS AND DECLARATION OF POLICY 
SEC. 2. The Congress hereby finds that the security and welfare 
of the United States require that this and future generations of 
American youth be assured ample opportunity for the fullest develop-