An Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 92-196 (H.R.11341), enacted 12/15/1971

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(4) processes or permits to be processed into commercial prod-
ucts the remains of a wild free-roaming horse or burro, or 
(5) sells, directly or indirectly, a wild free-roaming horse or 
burro maintained on private or leased land pursuant to section 4 
of this Act, or the remains thereof, or 
(6) willfully violates a regulation issued pursuant to this Act, 
shall be subject to a fine of not more than $2,000, or imprisonment for 
not more than one year, or both. Any person so charged with such 
violation by the Secretary may be tried and sentenced by any United 
States commissioner or magistrate designated for that purpose by the 
court by which he was appointed, in the same manner and subject to 
the same conditions as provided for in section 3401, title 18, United 
States Code. 
(b) Any employee designated by the Secretary of the Interior or 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall have power, without warrant, to 
arrest any person committing in the presence of such employee a 
violation of this Act or any regulation made pursuant thereto, and to 
take such person immediately for examination or trial before an officer 
or court of competent jurisdiction, and shall have power to execute 
any warrant or other process issued by an officer or court of competent 
jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this Act or regulations made 
pursuant thereto. Any judge of a court established under the laws of 
the United States, or any United States magistrate may, within his 
respective jurisdiction, upon proper oath or affirmation showing 
probable cause, issue warrants in all such cases. 
SEC, 9. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the Sec-
retary to relocate wild free-roaming horses or burros to areas of the 
public lands where they do not presently exist. 
SEC. 10. After the expiration of thirty calendar months following 
the date of enactment of this Act, and every twenty-four calendar 
months thereafter, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture will 
submit to Congress a joint report on the administration of this Act, 
including a summary of enforcement and/or other actions taken there-
under, costs, and such recommendations for legislative or other actions 
as he might deem appropriate. 
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
consult with respect to the implementation and enforcement of this 
Act and to the maximum feasible extent coordinate the activities of 
their respective departments and in the implementation and enforce-
ment of this Act. The Secretaries are authorized and directed to under-
take those studies of the habits of wild free-roaming horses and 
burros that they may deem necessary in order to carry out the provi-
sions of this Act. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
82 Stat. I l l s . 
Power of arrest. 
Limitation. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Studies. 
Public Law 92-196 
AN ACT 
December 15, 1971 
To provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other 
[H. R. 11341] 
purposes. 
~ 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may 
District of 
be cited as the "District of Columbia Kevenue Act of 1971". 
AclTf^Jgrl!''*""^ 
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TITLE I 
AMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA INHERITANCE TAX 
SEC. 101. (a) Paragraph (a) of section 1 of article 1 of title V 
of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 1937 (D.C. Code, sec. 
53 Stat. 1111. 
47-1601) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 1. (a) All real property and tangible and intangible per-
sonal property, or any interest therein, having its taxable situs in the 
District of Columbia, transferred from any person who may die seized 
or possessed thereof, either by will or by law, or by right of survivor-
ship, and all such property, or interest therein, transferred by deed, 
grant, bargain, gift, or sale (except in cases of a bona fide purchase 
for full consideration in money or money's worth), made or intended 
to take effect in possession or enjoyment after the death of the decedent, 
or made in contemplation of death, to or for the use of, in trust or 
otherwise (including property of which the decedent has retained 
for his life or for any period not ascertainable without reference to 
his death or for any period which does not in fact end before his death 
(1) the possession or enjoyment of, or the right to the income from 
such property, or (2) the right, either alone or in conjunction with 
any person, to designate the persons who shall possess or enjoy the 
property or the income therefrom), to the father, mother, husband, 
wife, children by blood or legally adopted children, or any other lineal 
descendants or lineal ancestors of the decedent, shall be subject to the 
tax as follows: 1 per centum of so much of said property as is in excess 
of $5j000 and not in excess of $25,000; 2 per centum of so much 
of said property as is in excess of $25,000 and not in excess of 
$50,000; 3 per centum of so much of said property as is in excess of 
$50,000 and not in excess of $100,000; 5 per centum of so much of 
said property as is in excess of $100,000 and not in excess of $500,000; 
6 per centum of so much of said property as is in excess of $500,000 
and not in excess of $1,000,000; and 8 per centum of so much of said 
property as is in excess of $1,000,000." 
Repeal. 
(b) Paragraph (b) of such section is repealed and paragraph 
(c) of such section is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) So much of said property so transferred to any person other 
than those included in paragraph (a) of this section and all firms, 
institutions, associations, and corporations shall be subject to a tax 
as follows: 5 per centum of so much of said property as is in excess 
of $1,000 and not in excess of $25,000; 10 per centum of so much of 
said property as is in excess of $25,000 and not in excess of $50,000; 
14 per centum of so much of said property as is in excess of $50,000 
and not in excess of $100,000; 18 per centum of so much of said prop-
erty as is in excess of $100,000 and not in excess of $500,000; 22 
per centum of so much of said property as is in excess of $500,000 and 
not in excess of $1,000,000; and 23 per centum of so much of said 
property as is in excess of $1,000,000." 
Effective date. 
^^^ rjj^g ameudmcuts made by this section shall apply with respect 
to property in the estates of persons who die on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
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TITLE I I 
TAXATION OF BUSINESS INVENTORY 
SEC. 201. Paragraph 2 of section 6 of the Act of July 1,1902 (D.C. 
Code, sec. 47-1207), is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
32 stat. eis. 
following sentence: "Effective July 1,1972, the rate of tax applicable 
to the average stock in trade of dealers in general merchandise shall 
be two-thirds of the rate of tax established by the District of Columbia 
Council for application generally to personal property subject to tax-
ation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972; and effective July 1, 
1973, the rate of tax applicable to the average stock in trade of deal-
ers in general merchandise shall be one-third the rate of tax established 
by the District of Columbia Council to be applied generally to per-
sonal property subject to taxation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1973; and effective July 1, 1974, the tax on the average s t o ^ in trade 
of dealers in general merchandise is repealed." 
TITLE I I I 
MOTOR VEHICLE FUELS TAX 
SEC. 301. (a) The first section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide 
for a tax on motor vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, 
and for other purposes," approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 106; D.C. 
Code, sec. 47-1901), as amended, is amended by striking the figure ^J?,,^l^^:^J^'' 
, , _ , , 
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80 Stat, 858. 
"7" and inserting m lieu thereof the figure 8 . 
(b) Section 2(b) 
of such Act 
(D.C. Code, 47-1902(b)), is 
43 stat. loe. 
amended to read as follows: 
"(b) The term 'motor vehicle fuels' means gasoline, diesel fuel, f^'eTs°"" ^^^'""^^ 
and other volatile and flammable liquid fuels produced or com-
pounded for the purpose of operating or propelling internal 
combustion engines. It also includes benzol, oenzene, naphtha, kerosene, 
heating oils, all liquified petroleum gases, and all combustible gases 
and liquids suitable for the generation of power for propulsion of 
motor vehicles when advertised, offered for sale, sold for use, or used, 
alone, or blended or compounded with other products, for the purpose 
of operating or propelling internal combustion engines." 
(c) Section 10 of such Act (D.C. Code, 47-1910) is repealed. 
Repeal. 
(d) Section 14 of such Act (D.C. Code, 47-1912), as amended, 
is amended by striking out "of 7 cents per gallon". 
SEC. 302. The amendments made by this title shall take effect on 
Elective date. 
the first day of the first month which begins more than thirty days 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
TITLE IV 
CORPORATE AND UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS INCOME TAX 
SEC. 401. Section 2 of title V I I of article I of the District of 
Columbia Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947 (D.C. Code, sec. 
47-1571a) is amended by striking out "6" and inserting in lieu 82^staL^6i2!^' 
thereof "7". 
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61 Stat. 346; 
82 Stat. 612. 
Ante, p . 653. 
Supra. 
Effective dates 
Sanitary and 
sewer systems. 
68 Stat. 108; 
84 Stat. 19 30. 
74 Stat. 210, 
D.C. Code 43-
1620. 
81 Stat. 224. 
(D.C. Code, 
inserting in 
(D.C. Code, 
inserting in 
sec. 
lieu 
sec. 
lieu 
sec. 
lieu 
SEC. 402. Section 3 of title V I I I of such Act 
47-1574b) is amended by striking out "6" and 
thereof "7". 
SEC. 403. Section 2 of title VII of such Act (D.C. Code, 
47-1571a) is amended by striking out "7" and inserting in 
thereof "8". 
SEC. 404. Section 3 of title V I I I of such Act 
47-1574b) is amended by striking out "7" and 
thereof "8". 
SEC. 405. The amendments made by sections 401 and 402 of this title 
shall apply with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 
1971, but before January 1, 1974. The amendments made by sections 
403 and 404 of this title shall apply with respect to taxable years 
beginning on or after January 1,1974. 
TITLE V 
INCREASE SPECIAL FUND BORROWING AUTHORITY 
SEC. 501. Section 214 of the District of Columbia Public Works Act 
of 1954 (D.C. Code, sec. 43-1613) is amended by striking out the 
figure 
"$72,000,000" and 
inserting in lieu thereof 
the 
figure 
"$106,000,000". 
SEC. 502. The Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners 
of the District of Columbia to plan, construct, operate, and maintain 
a sanitary sewer to connect the Dulles International Airport with the 
District of Columbia system", approved June 12,1960, as amended, is 
further amended (1) by striking out in section 4 (D.C. Code, sec. 
43-1623 (a)) "$25,000,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$35,500,000", 
and (2) by adding at the end of section 2(b) (D.C. Code, sec. 
43-1621 (b)) the foUowing: "Lump-sum payments made by an agency 
or local authority pursuant to the provisions of this section, and as 
reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in compliance with 
section 4 of this Act, need not be appropriated, and may be made by the 
agency or local authority to the Secretary of the Treasury.". The 
second sentence of section 4(a) of such Act is amended by striking 
out "Any loan advanced" down through and including "from the 
receipts credited to said fund" and inserting in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing : "Any loan advanced under this section shall be credited to the 
Metropolitan Area Sanitary Sewage Works Fund, and— 
"(1) in the case of any loan advanced under this section before 
July 1, 1971, 50 per centum of such loan shall be repaid to the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and 
"(2) in the case of any loan advanced on or after July 1,1971, 
100 per centum of such loan shall be repaid to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, 
from the receipts credited to such fund". 
TITLE VI 
80 Stat. 857; 
84 Stat. 19 30. 
INCREASE IN AUTHORIZATION OF THE FEDERAL PAYMENT TO THE DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA 
SEC. 601. (a) Section 1 of article VI of the District of Columbia 
Revenue Act of 1947 (D.C. Code, sec. 47-2501a) is amended to read 
as follows: 
"SECTION 1. There are authorized to be appropriated, as the annual 
payment by the United States toward defraying the expenses of the 
government of the District of Columbia, not to exceed $173,000,000 for 
the fiscal year ending June 30,1972, and not to exceed $178,000,000 for 
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the fiscal year ending June 30,1973, and for each fiscal year thereafter. 
Sums appropriated under this section shall be credited to the general 
fund of the District of Columbia." 
(b) (1) In addition to the amount authorized to be appropriated 
under section 1 of Article VI of the District of Columbia Revenue 
Act of 1947 (D.C. Code, sec. 47-2501a) for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1972, there is authorized to be appropriated to the District of 
Columbia for such fiscal year not to exceed $6,000,000 which may only 
be used in such fiscal year to pay officers and employees of the District 
of Columbia increased compensation which is required by compara-
bility adjustments made on or after January 1, 1972, in the rates of 
pay of statutory pay systems (as defined in section 5301(c) of title 
5, United States Code), based on the 1971 Bureau of Labor Statistics 
survey. 
(2) In addition to the amount authorized to be appropriated under 
section 1 of Article VI of the District of Columbia Revenue Act of 
1947 (D.C. Code, sec. 47-2501a) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1973, and for each fiscal year thereafter, there is authorized to be 
appropriated to the District of Columbia not to exceed $12,000,000 
for each such fiscal year which may only be used to pay officers and 
employees of the District of Columbia increased compensation which 
is required by comparability adjustments made on or after January 1, 
1972, in the rates of pay of statutory pay systems (as defined in sec-
tion 5301 (c) of title 5, United States Code), based on the 1971 Bureau 
of Labor Statistics survey. 
TITLE VII 
Ante, p, 654. 
84 Stat. 1946, 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 701. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Com-
missioner of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered, 
in his discretion, for the best interests of the District of Columbia, to 
sell and convey, in whole or in part, to the highest bidder, at public 
sale, for not less than the fair market value thereof, certain real 
estate now owned in fee simple by the United States of America 
comprised of approximately 143.15 acres of land, located in Prince 
Georges County in the State of Maryland, and more particularly 
described in the deeds conveying said land to the United States 
recorded on November 7, 1923, in liber 206, folio 384, and August 28, 
1923, in liber 206, folio 17, in the land records of Prince Georges 
County, Maryland. 
(2) The Commissioner shall, before offering to sell such real estate 
at public sale, offer to sell and convey all of such real estate, for not 
less than the fair market value thereof, to the Prince Georges County 
government. Prince Georges County, Maryland. Only after such 
county government has had a reasonable time not to exceed six months 
to consider and accept or reject such offer (in whole or in part) may 
the Commissioner sell and convey such real estate or the remaining 
portion of such real estate, as the case may be, at public sale. 
(b) The Commissioner is further authorized to pay the reasonable 
and necessary expenses of the sale or sales of such land, and shall 
deposit the net proceeds of any such sales in the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 702. Any compensation received by an officer or employee of 
the District of Columbia government, the direct or indirect source of 
which is a grant from any Federal agency, department, or instru-
mentality shall, for the purposes of section 5533 of title 5 of the United 
States Code (relating to dual compensation) be held and considered 
to be compensation paid to such officer or employee from regularly 
appropriated funds. 
Land disposi-
tion. 
Dual compens 
tion. 
80 Stat. 483; 
8 4 Stat. 1195. 
gress 
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SEC. 703. Along with, and in addition to, all other financial and 
budgetary information and data which the Commissioner of the 
District of Columbia is required annually to submit to the Office of 
Management and Budget by section 214 of the Budget and Account-
64 Stat. 833. 
j^g Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 22), the Commissioner shall prepare and 
submit to that Office a schedule showing an estimate of all funds 
which will be available to any agency, department, or instrumentality 
of the District of Columbia government, during the fiscal year for 
which such financial and budgetary information and data are sub-
mitted, from grants from any Federal agency, department, or 
instrumentality, or from any private source. Such schedule shall 
include such additional information as the Office of Management and 
Budget deems necessary and appropriate to fully indicate the purposes 
for which such grants will be made, the scope of the programs funded 
by such grants, and the relationship between the grant funded 
programs and the programs of such agency, department, or instru-
mentality funded by money appropriated directly to the District of 
^^«f"""t t° Con- 
Columbia. Such schedule, and such additional information as the 
Office of Management and Budget may include, shall be transmitted 
to the Congress along with the annual budget request from the 
District of Columbia government. 
Rent auotments. 
gj,^ ^04. Sectiou 16 of the Dlstrict of Columbia Public Assistance 
76 Stat. 917. 
j^gt of 1962 (D.C. Code, sec. 3-215) is amended by inserting " ( a ) " 
immediately after "SEC. 16.", and by adding at the end of the section 
the following: 
"(b) (1) If a recipient fails to make his regular rental payment for 
a period of ten days after the date such payment was due then the 
lessor of such recipient may send written notice of such failure to the 
Commissioner. Upon receipt of such notice the Commissioner, after 
appropriate notice to all interested parties and an opportunity for a 
hearing, may deduct from the monthly public assistance grant for 
such recipient for the next month following the notice to the Com-
missioner an amount equal to the monthly shelter allotment for such 
recipient. Such deducted amount shall be disposed of by the Commis-
sioner according to the following provisions of this subsection. 
"(2) If it is determined that there is no legal basis for the recipi-
ent's failure to make such regular rental payment then the amount 
deducted and held by the Commissioner shall be paid to the lessor 
legally entitled to receive such payment. The Commissioner shall con-
tinue to deduct such amount from such grant for each month there-
after for so long as such recipient receives such grant, and to pay 
such amount directly to the lessor of such recipient. 
" (3) If it is determined that there is a legal basis for the recipient's 
failure to make such regular rental payment then the Commissioner 
shall pay to the lessor legally entitled to receive such payment such 
part of the amount deducted and held by him as is determined to be 
owed to the lessor. The Commissioner shall restore to the monthly 
public assistance grant for such recipient such shelter allotment for 
each month thereafter for so long as the recipient receives such grant 
and makes his regular rental payments. 
"(c) (1) If any lessor, receiving payments from the Commissioner 
under subsection (b) fails to maintain the premises of the recipient 
according to all applicable laws and regulations of the District of 
Columbia, then the recipient may send written notice alleging such 
failure to the Commissioner. Upon receipt of such notice the Com-
missioner, after appropriate notice to all interested parties and an 
opportunity for a hearing, may suspend such payments for such 
recipient for each month thereafter, and shall hold and dispose of 
such amount according to the following provisions of this subsection. 
"(2) If it is determined that there is no basis for such allegation 
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by the recipient the Commissioner shall pay such amount to such 
lessor and continue to make such payments for such recipient. 
"(3) If it is determined that there is a basis for such allegation by 
the recipient the Commissioner shall pay to the lessor such part of 
the amount suspended as is determined to be owed to him. The Com-
missioner shall restore to the monthly public assistance grant for 
such recipient the monthly shelter allotment for each month there-
after for so long as the recipient receives such grant and makes his 
regular rental payments. If such recipient vacates the premises with 
respect to which such allegation was made, rents other premises in the 
District of Columbia, and the Commissioner determines on the basis 
of such allegation that such recipient was justified in vacating the 
premises with respect to which the allegation was made, the Com-
missioner may pay to the recipient an amount (not to exceed his 
monthly shelter allotment) to enable him to make the rental payment 
required (if any) for such other premises for the period preceding 
the period for which the recipient will first receive his monthly shelter 
allotment under the preceding sentence. 
"(d) The failure of any lessor to receive all or part of a monthly 
shelter allotment withheld from any recipient pursuant to subsection 
(b), or the suspension of rental payments under subsection (c), of 
this section shall not be cause for eviction of any recipient. 
" (e) For the purpose of any regulations of the Secretary of Health, 
Education, and Welfare, or of any other requirement of law, the 
total amount of assistance given to a recipient shall include that 
amount suspended and held, or paid by the Commissioner as authorized 
under subsections (b) and (c). Nothing in this section shall operate 
to deny to the District of Columbia any funds from any program of 
the Federal Government relating to public assistance which are paid 
to the District of Columbia on the basis of the funds appropriated 
directly to the District for programs administered under this Act. 
"(f) For purposes of subsections (b) and (c), the term 'lessor' 
includes a sublessor. 
"(g) The District of Columbia Council is authorized to issue such 
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
section " 
SEC. 705. Section 6 of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925 (43 
Stat. 1119; D.C. Code, sec. 40-603) is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection: 
"(k) (1) Any unattended motor vehicle found parked at any time 
upon any public highway of the District of Columbia against which 
there are two or more outstanding or otherwise unsettled traffic viola-
tion notices or against which there have been issued two or more war-
rants, may, by or under the direction of an officer or member of the 
Metropolitan Police force or the United States Park Police force, 
either by towing or otherwise, be removed or conveyed to and 
impounded in any place designated by the Commissioner, or immobi-
lized in such manner as to prevent its operation, except that no 
such vehicle shall be immobilized by any means other than by the use 
of a device or other mechanism which will cause no damage to such 
vehicle unless it is moved while such device or mechanism is in place. 
"(2) It shall be the duty of the officer or member of the police 
force removing or immobilizing such motor vehicle, or under whose 
directions such vehicle is removed or immobilized, to inform as soon 
as practicable the owner of an impounded or immobilized vehicle of 
the nature and circumstances of the prior unsettled traffic violation 
notices or warrants, for which or on account of which, such vehicle 
was impounded or immobilized. In any case involving immobilization 
of a vehicle pursuant to this subsection, such member or officer shall 
cause to be placed on such vehicle, in a conspicuous manner, notice 
" L e s s o r . " 
Regulationsa 
Motor vehicless, 
impoundment. 
46 Stat. 1424; 
63 Stat. 128. 
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Welfare recipi-
ents, identifica-
tion cardsa 
76 Stat. 915. 
Check distribu-
tion. 
Penalty. 
D.C. govern-
ment personnel, 
limitation. 
80 Stat. 964; 
84 Stat. 1938. 
Effective date. 
84 Stat. 846. 
D.C, Code 1-102 
note. 
sufficient to warn any individual to the effect that such vehicle has 
been immobilized and that any attempt to move such vehicle might 
result in damage to such vehicle. 
"(3) The owner of such impounded or immobilized motor vehicle, 
or other duly authorized person, shall be permitted to repossess or to 
secure the release of the vehicle upon the depositing of the collateral 
required for his appearance in the Superior Court of the District of 
Columbia to answer for each violation for which there is an outstand-
ing or otherwise unsettled traffic violation notice or warrant." 
SEC. 706. (a) Section 7 of the District of Columbia Public Assistance 
Act of 1962 (D.C. Code, sec. 3-206) is amended by inserting " ( a ) " 
immediately after "SEC. 7." and by adding at the end of the section 
the following: 
"(b) After determining that a person is eligible to receive public 
assistance, the Commissioner shall issue to such person a public assist-
ance identification card which shall be used hj such person, in obtain-
ing any public assistance, as a means of identifying him as the proper 
recipient of such public assistance. The public assistance identification 
card shall contain the name, social security number, and account or 
case number of the recipient to whom such card was issued. 
"(c) The Commissioner may by regulation prescribe additional 
uses and requirements with respect to the issuance and use of the 
public assistance identification card as he deems necessary. Nothing 
in this section shall be construed to require recipients of public assist-
ance to receive their monthly allotment checks in person at one central 
location. The Commissioner shall by regulation establish such means 
of distribution of such checks which, utilizing the public assistance 
identification card, will insure the least amount of fraud and loss of 
such checks without unduly burdening the recipients of such checks. 
"(d) Any person who sells a public assistance identification card, 
or otherwise permits any person other than the recipient to 
whom it was issued to use such card to obtain public assistance to 
which such user is not otherwise eligible to receive, shall be fined 
not more than $500, or imprisoned for not longer than one year, or 
both." 
(b) Section 17(a) of such Act 
amended by striking out the "or" 
inserting immediately after clause 
public assistance identification card;" 
SEC. 707. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972, no person 
shall be appointed— 
(1) as a full-time employee to a permanent, authorized posi-
tion in the government of the District of Columbia during any 
month when the number of such employees is greater than 39,619; 
or 
(2) as a temporary or part-time employee in the government 
of the District of Columbia during any month in which the 
number of such employees exceeds the number of such employees 
for the same month of the preceding fiscal year. 
SEC, 708. (a) Section 4(b) of the District of Columbia Minimum 
Wage Act (D.C. Code, sec. 36-404(b)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting "or" at the end of paragraph (4), 
(2) by striking out "; or" at the end of paragraph (5) and 
inserting in lieu thereof a period, and 
(3) by striking out paragraph (6). 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) of this section shall 
take effect January 1,1972. 
SEC. 709. (a) The last sentence of subsection (b) of section 103 of 
title I of the Act of September 22j 1970 (relating to the Commission 
on the Government of the District of Columbia), is amended by 
(D.C. Code, sec. 3-216(a)) is 
at the end of clause (2) and 
(3) the following: "or, (4) a 
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inserting immediately before the period a comma and the following: 
"and such report shall be printed as a House document". 
(b) Subsection (b) of section 106 of title I of such Act is amended 
D^c.^code^^V-ioi 
to read as follows: 
note. * 
"(b) The Administrator of General Services shall provide financial 
and administrative support services for the Commission on a reim-
bursable basis. The head of any Federal agency or department, or 
agency of the District of Columbia, is authorized to provide for the 
Commission such other services as the Commission requests on such 
basis, reimbursable or otherwise, as may be agreed upon between the 
department or agency and the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the 
Commission. All such requests shall be made by or in the name of the 
Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Commission." 
TITLE VIII 
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
SEC. 801. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof 
separability. 
to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the 
Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or cir-
cumstances, shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 802. Nothing in this Act, or any amendments made by this 
Act, shall be construed so as to affect the authority vested m the 
Commissioner of the District of Columbia or the authority vested 
in the District of Columbia Council by Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 3 of 1967. The performance of any function vested by this 
si stat. 948. 
Act in the Commissioner of tljie District of Columbia or in any office 
^^^ °^^* 
or agency under his jurisdiction and control, or in the District of 
Columbia Council, may be delegated by the Commissioner or by the 
Council, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of such 
plan. 
SEC. 803. (a) The repeal or amendment by this Act shall not 
affect any other provision of District law, or any act done or any 
right accrued or accruing under such law, or any suit or proceeding 
had or commenced in any civil cause before repeal or amendment 
of such law, but all rights and liabilities under such law shall con-
tinue, and may be enforced in the same manner and to the same 
extent, as if such repeal or amendment had not been made. 
(b) All offenses committed, and all penalties incurred, under any 
provision of law hereby repealed or amended, may be prosecuted 
and punished in the same manner and with the same effect as if this 
Act nad not been enacted. 
SEC. 804. Except as otherwise provided, the provisions of this 
Effective date. 
Act shall take effect upon the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 805. In granting its consent to the Washington Metropolitan R«8*°n\i transit 
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Area Iransit Authority Compact and enacting that compact for the costs. 
District of Columbia, Congress declared the policy that, to the extent 
that costs of the regional transit project are not covered by user 
charges, such costs shall be equitably shared among the Federal, Dis-
trict of Columbia, and participating local governments in the transit 
zone. In the National Capital Transportation Act of 1969, Congress, ^^c^^code^i-
in conformance with this policy, authorized the Commissioner of the 1441 note. ^ 
District of Columbia to contract with the Transit Authority to make 
annual capital contributions to provide the District of Columbia's 
share of tne cost of the regional transit project. Pursuant to this 
authorization, the District of Columbia has entered into a Capital Con-
tributions Agreement with the Transit Authority and the political 
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[85 STAT. 
subdivisions in the transit zone to make tlie agreed upon annual con-
tributions. It is the purpose of this section to reaffirm 
the 
aforementioned policy established by Congress with respect to the 
regional transit project and the contractual obligation of the District 
of Columbia to provide its share of the cost of the regional transit 
project. 
Approved December 15, 1971. 
December 15, 1971 
[H. R. 11652] 
Public Law 92-197 
AN ACT 
To amend title 38 of the United States Code to liberalize the provisions relating 
to payment of dependency and indemnity compensation. 
Veterans. 
Dependency and 
indemnity com-
pensation, in-
crease. 
83 Stat. 144. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 411 of 
title 38, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) Dependency and indemnity compensation shall be paid to a 
widow, based on the pay ^rade of her deceased husband, at monthly 
rates set forth in the following table: 
Children. 
84 Stat. 256. 
Monthly rate 
$184 
189 
195 
208 
212 
217 
227 
240 
^251 
232 
241 
249 
"Pay grade 
W-4 
0-1 
0-2 
0-3 
0-4 
0-5 
0-6 
0-7 
0-8 
0-9 
Monthly rate 
$262 
232 
240 
257 
272 
299 
337 
365 
399 
429 
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"Pay grade 
E-1 
E-2 
E-3 
E-4 
E^5 
E-6 
E-7 
E-8 
E-9 
W-1 
W-2 
W-3 
"1 If the veteran served as sergeant major of the Army, senior enlisted adviser of the 
Navy, chief master sergeant of the Air Force, or sergeant major of the Marine Corps, at 
the applicable time designated by section 402 of this title, the widow's rate shall be $270. 
"2 If the veteran served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Staff of the 
Army, Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, or Commandant of the 
Marine Corps, at the applicable time designated by section 402 of this title, the widow's 
rate shall be $503. 
"^b) If there is a Avidow with one or more children below the age 
of eignteen of a deceased veteran, the dependency and indemnity com-
pensation paid monthly to the widow shall be increased by $22 for 
each such child. 
"(c) The monthly rate of dependency and indemnity compensation 
payable to a widow shall be increased by $55 if she is (1) a patient 
in a nursing home or (2) helpless or blind, or so nearly helpless or 
blind as to need or require the regular aid and attendance of another 
person." 
SEC. 2. Section -113 of title 38, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"Whenever there is no widow of a deceased veteran entitled to 
dependency and indemnity compensation, dependency and indemnity 
compensation shall be paid in equal shares to the children of the 
deceased veteran at the following monthly rates: