Joint resolution to provide housing relief in the Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma flood disaster emergency
PL 82-107 (H.J.Res.303), enacted 08/03/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 107—AUG. 3, 1951 
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ized to be paid in the fiscal year 19-27, and for payment for electric 
current for new forms of street lighting sliall not exceed 2 cents per 
kilowatt-houi- for current consumed. 
SEC. 14. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including 
Passenger vehicles. 
watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated and 
utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(5 U. S. C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control of 
the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the 
assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchange-
able use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, 
except as otherwise provided in this Act. 
"Official purposes" shall 
not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in 
cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes 
such transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when 
the same is approved by the Commissioners. 
No motor vehicles shall 
Restriction. 
be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch 
of the government of the District of Columbia, 
SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, 
^^^o^' removal. 
Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for 
snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appro- 
short title. 
priation Act of 1952". 
Approved August 3, 1951. 
Public Law 107 
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JOINT RE80LUTI0N 
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To provide housinji x-elief in the Missourl-Kan.sas-Oklalioinii flood disaster 
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emergency. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 8 (b) (2) of the o k'/fi?om'-^Vi'ood" 
National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended (1) oy insert- disaster. 
ing after the word "construction" in both places where it appears 
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therein the words "or reconstruction" and (2) by striking out the 
words '"''And provided further'^'' in the last proviso thereof and insert-
ing in lieu thereof the words ^''Provided further'''' and by inserting at 
the end of said last proviso a colon and the following: ^''And provided 
further^ That, where the mortgagor is the owner and occupant of the 
property and establishes (to the satisfaction of the Commissioner) 
that his home, which he occupied as an owner or as a tenant, was 
destroyed or darr^aged to such an extent that reconstruction is required 
as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm or other catas-
trophe, which the President pursuant to section 2 (a) of the Act 
entitled 'An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local 
governments in major disasters, and for other purposes' (Public Law 
875, Eighty-first Congress, approved September 30, 1950), has deter- 
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mined to be a major disaster, such maximum dollar limitations may 
be increased by the Commissioner from $4,750 to $7,000, and from 
$5,600 to $8,000, respectively, and the percentage limitation may be 
increased by the Commissioner from 95 per centum to 100 per centum 
of the appraised value". 
SEC. 2. Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize Federal 
assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for 
other purposes" (Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, approved 
September 30, 1950), is amended by inserting in clause (d) of the first 
sentence thereof after the words "in such major disaster" the follow-
ing: "providing temporary housing or other emergency shelter for 
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families who, as a result of such major disaster, require temporary 
housing or other emergency shelter,". 
Approved August 3, 1951. 
August 4, 1951 
(H. R. 315] 
Public Law 108 
CHAPTER 2 9 4 
AN ACT 
To liberalize the service pensions laws relating to veterans of the war with Spain, 
the Philippine Insurrection, or the Boxer Rebellion, and their dependents. 
Veterans, War with 
Spain, Philippine In-
surrection, or Boxer 
Rebellion. 
Service pensions. 
Delimiting dates. 
Active service. 
Monthly rates. 
Payment. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assewMed^ That in determining 
eligibility to service pension for veterans of the war with Spain, the 
Philippine Insurrection, or the Boxer Rebellion, and dependents of 
such veterans, which are payable under the laws reenacted by the Act 
of August 13, 1935 (49 Stat. 614; 38 U. S. C. 368, 369), or under Acts 
amendatory or supplemental to such laws, the following additional 
rules shall obtain: 
(a) The delimiting dates of the war with Spain, the Philippine 
Insurrection, or the Boxer Rebellion shall be from April 21, 1898, to 
July 4,1902, inclusive: Provided^ That if the person was serving with 
the United States military forces engaged in the hostilities in the Moro 
Province the period herein stated shall extend to July 15, 1903. 
(b) In computing active service there shall be counted continuous 
active service which commenced prior to and extended into the 
applicable period specified in (a) hereof or Vvhich commenced within 
such applicable period. 
(c) A discharge or release from active service under conditions 
other than dishonorable shall be a prerequisite to entitlement to service 
pension. 
SEC. 2. The minimum monthly rates of pension payable to veterans 
by virtue of the laws referred to in section 1 as modified by this Act 
shall be $90 in cases where the veteran served ninety days or more or 
was discharged for disability incurred in service in line of duty unless 
such veteran is now or hereafter becomes on account of age or physical 
or mental disabilities, helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind 
as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another person, 
the monthly rate shall be $120; and $60 in cases where the veteran 
served seventy days or more unless such veteran is now or hereafter 
becomes on account of age or physical or mental disabilities, helpless 
or blind, or so nearly helpless or blind as to need or require the 
regular aid and attendance of another person, the monthly rate shall 
be $78. 
SEC. 3. Except as provided in section 4 hereof, where eligibility for 
pension or increase of pension is established by virtue of this Act, 
pension shall be paid from date of receipt of application therefor in 
the Veterans' Administration, but in no event prior to the first day 
of the second calendar month following the enactment of this Act: 
Provided^ That payment of death pension may be made from date of 
death of a veteran where claim therefor is filed within one year after 
date of death of the veteran, but no payment shall cover a period 
prior to the first day of the second calendar month following the 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. All persons receiving pensions on the day prior to the effec-
tive date of this Act under the laws referred to in sections 1 and 5 
of this Act shall, effective the first day of the second calendar month 
following the enactment of this Act, receive the benefits of this Act 
without the necessity of filing a claim therefor.