An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to provide for the better registration of births in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes""
PL 86-524 (S.2327), enacted 06/27/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-524-JUNE 27, 1960 
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institutions and qualified individuals, with a view to determining 
the ownership of and the most appropriate repository for any relics 
and specimens recovered as a result of any work performed as provided 
for in this section. 
SEC. 3. In the administration of this Act, the Secretary may— 
(1) enter into contracts or make cooperative agreements with 
any Federal or State agency, any educational or scientific organ-
ization, or any institution, corporation, association, or qualified 
individual; and 
(2) procure the temporary or intermittent services of experts 
or consultants or organizations thereof as provided in section 15 
of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a); and 
(3) accept and utilize funds made available for salvage archeo-
logical purposes by any private person or corporations holding a 
license issued by an agency of the United States for the con-
struction of a dam or other type of water or power control project. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
Administiration. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Publir Law 86-524 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the better registration of 
births in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes". 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 2327] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Arnerica in Congress assembled^ That the last para-
graph of subsection (a) of the first section of the Act entitled "An 
Act to provide for the better registration of births in the District 
of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved March 1, 1907 (34 
Stat. 1010; sec. 6-301, D.C. Code, 1951 edition), as amended, is 
amended to read as follows: 
"Upon receipt of any report aforesaid, the Director of Public Health 
shall forward to the father of the child, or, if his address be unknown, 
to the mother, an acknowledgment of the receipt of such report, and 
if the infant delivered be not stillborn, and such report does not con-
tain the given name of the child born, a blank form on which the father 
or mother may certify over his or her signature the name of such child, 
which form, if thus executed and returned to said Director, shall be 
a part of the official record of such birth. 
In those cases in which no 
given name of a child has been certified to said Director, and a certifi-
cate cannot be executed by a parent because both parents are deceased, 
unknown, or physically or mentally incapacitated, the Director is 
authorized to accept and make a part of the official record of the birth 
of such child a certificate made in accordance with such rules and 
regulations as may bs promulgated by the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, who are hereby authorized to make rules and regu-
lations governing the certification of the given name of a child where 
the birth record pertaining to such child does not include such given 
name." 
SEC. 2. The first section of said Act approved March 1, 1907, as 
amended, is amended by adding the following subsection: 
"(c) Wherever in this Act the terms 'health officer', 'Director of 
Public Health', or 'Director' are used, such terms shall mean the 
Director of the Department of Public Health of the District of 
Columbia established by the Commissioners of the District of Colum-
bia pursuant to the authority contained in Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824)." 
D. C. 
port s. 
70 Stat. 
D. C, 
Supp. VII, 
Certific 
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6-301. 
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PUBLIC LAW 86-525-JUNE 27, 1960 
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SEC. 3. This Act shall not be considered as affecting the authority 
vested in the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia by 
Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824), and the per-
formance of any function vested by said plan in the Board of Commis-
sioners or in any office or agency under the jurisdiction and control 
of said Board of Commissioners in accordance with section 3 of such 
plan. Any function vested by this Act in any office or agency estab-
lished pursuant to such plan shall be deemed to be vested in said Board 
of Commissioners and shall be subject to delegation in accordance 
with said plan. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 2439] 
Public Law 86-525 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain teacliers in the public schools of the District of Columbia to 
count as creditable service for retirement purposes certain periods of authorized 
leave without pay taken by such teachers for educational purposes. 
D. C. teachers. 
Retirement. 
D. C. Code 
721-739. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That any teacher 
who, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, retires pursuant to 
the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers 
in the District of Columbia", approved August 7,1946 (60 Stat. 875), 
as amended, shall be entitled to nave included in the years of service 
creditable to him for retirement purposes any period of authorized 
leave of absence which was taken by him without pay, and for edu-
cational purposes; except that credit for any such period shall be con-
ditioned upon the deposit by such teacher to the credit of the teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund of the District of Columbia of a sum 
equal to the accumulated contributions and interest which would have 
been credited to his individual account if he had remained on active 
duty in the public schools of the District of Columbia during any 
such period: Provided^ That in order to receive such retirement credit 
a teacher must produce evidence satisfactory to the Superintendent 
of Schools of the District of Columbia that the authorized leave of 
absence Avithout pay was taken for educational purposes. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
June 
27, 1960 
[H. 
R. 10183] 
Public Law 86-526 
AN ACT 
To amend the Fire and Casualty Act regulating the business of fire, marine, and 
casualty insurance in the District of Columbia. 
Fire and Casu-
alty Act, D. C. 
Amendment. 
54 Stat. 1073. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 20 of 
the Fire and Casualty Act (D.C. Code 35-1323) is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Any company 
chartered by special act of the legislature of its State of domicile prior 
to the effective date of this Act, as provided in section 48 of this Act, 
as a company without capital stock but doing business exclusively on 
the stock plan and maintaining at all times a surplus of not less than 
$300,000 shall, in the administration of this Act, be considered as a 
stock company." 
Approved June 27, 1960.