An Act to retrocede to the State of Ohio concurrent jurisdiction over certain highways within Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
PL 83-301 (S.2689), enacted 02/27/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 300-FEB. 20, 1954 
[68 STAT. 
Public Law 300 
CHAPTER 13 
February 20, 1954 
[H. R. 5959] 
Armed Forces. 
Dual compensa-
tion. 
47 Stat. 406. 
38 u s e ch. 12A. 
Effective date. 
AN ACT 
To exempt certain commissioned officers retired for disabilities caused by instru-
mentalities of war from the limitation prescribed by law with respect to the 
combined rate of retired pay and of compensation as civilian employees of the 
Government which retired officers may receive. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proviso in 
section 212 (b) of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations 
for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1933, and for other purposes", approved June 30, 1932 
(5 U. S. C, sec. 59a (b)), is amended to read as follows: '"''Provided^ 
That this section shall not apply to any regular or emergency commis-
sioned officer retired for disability (1) incurred in combat with an 
enemy of the United States, or (2) caused by an instrumentality of war 
and incurred in line of duty during an enlistment or employment as 
provided in Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), part I, para-
graph I". 
SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall 
take effect as of January 1, 1951. 
Approved February 20, 1954. 
February 27, 1954 
[S. 2689] 
Wright-P atters on 
Air F o r c e Base, 
Ohio. 
Highway j u r i s-
diction. 
Public Law 301 
CHAPTER 33 
AN ACT 
To retrocede to the State of Ohio concurrent jurisdiction over certain highways 
within Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 
Be it enxwted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby 
granted to the State of Ohio a retrocession of jurisdiction over the 
portions of highways described below within the Wright-Patterson 
Air Force Base to the extent that all laws of the State and all laws 
of the United States shall be applicable thereon and the United States 
and the State shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction thereover: 
(A) State Route Numbered 4, beginning at Huberville, approxi-
mately three thousand feet northeast of the intersection of Harshman-
ville Road with State Route Numbered 4, thence northeast to the 
Greene County and Montgomery County line, the above section of 
road being in Montgomery County, Ohio; 
(B) All that part of State Route Numbered 4 lying between 
the Greene County and Montgomery County line and the Cleveland, 
Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad underpass and being 
within the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundaries, 
the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio; 
(C) Beginning at the point where State Route Numbered 4 passes 
the extreme south corner of the original Wilbur Wright Field bound-
ary, said point being approximately one thousand seven hundred feet 
northeast of Huffman Dam, thence northeasterly to the corporate 
limits of the village of Fairborn, Ohio, the above section of road 
being in Greene County, Ohio; 
(D) State Route Numbered 235, beginning at a point where State 
Route Numbered 235 intersects and crosses an easterly boundary line 
of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said point being approxi-
mately one thousand seven hundred feet north of the intersection of 
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State Route Numbered 235 with State Route Numbered 4, thence 
westerly to the extreme west line of the reservation, excepting that 
part of the road lying between Haddix Road and the Osborn Road, 
the above section of road being in Greene County, Ohio; 
(E) State Route Numbered 69, beginning at the intersection of 
State Route Numbered 69 and original State Route Numbered 235, 
thence southwesterly with the east one-half of the road to the extreme 
southwest corner of the reservation boundary, the above section of 
road being in Greene County, Ohio; 
(F) Harshmanville Road, beginning at the intersection of Harsh-
manville Road with Yellow Springs Road in the village of Riverside, 
thence southerly with the east one-half of the road a distance of 
approximately one thousand four hundred feet, thence continuing 
southerly the full width of the road to Airway Road; 
(G) Yellow Springs Road, beginnihg at the intersection of Yellow 
Springs Road with Harshmanville Road in the village of Riverside, 
thence easterly with the south one-half of the road to the Wright-
Patterson Air Fore Base reservation boundary; 
(H) Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road 
with Harshmanville Road, thence easterly with the north one-half 
of the road a distance of approximately two thousand feet, thence 
continuing easterly with the full width of the road to the Greene 
County and Montgomery County line; 
(I) Spinning Road, beginning at the intersection of Spinning Road 
with the south right-of-way line of Airway Road, thence southerly 
with the west one-half of the road one thousand nine hundred and 
seventy-three feet to a south boundary line of the Wright-Patterson 
Air Force Base reservation; 
(J) Glendean Avenue, beginning at the intersection of Glendean 
Avenue with the north right-of-way of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, thence northerly with the east one-half of Glendean Avenue, a 
distance of approximately one thousand seven hundred feet; 
(K) Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road 
with the Greene County and Montgomery County line, thence easterly 
to the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, the 
point of ending being approximately four hundred and fifty feet east 
of Skyline Drive; 
(L) National Road (Huffman), beginning at a corner in the 
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, said corner 
being in the National Road and approximately two hundred feet north 
of its intersection Avith Airway Road, thence, with the west one-half 
of the road, northerly four thousand four hundred feet, thence 
continuing northerly with the full width of the road to Old Route 
Numbered 4; 
(M) Zink Road (New Germany Road), beginning at the inter-
section of the New Germany Road with the south right-of-way line of 
Old Route Numbered 4, thence southerly with the east one-half of 
the road, a distance of eight hundred and ninety feet, also beginning 
in tlie New Germany Road at a corner in the reservation boundary, the 
beginning point being approxnnately one thousand four hundred feet 
southerly from the south right-of-way line of Old Route Numbered 
4, thence continuing southerly with the westerly one-half of the road 
a distance of one thousand five hundred and eighty-seven feet; 
(N) Old Route Numbered 4. beginning at the intersection of Old 
Route Numbered 4 with the southerly right-of-way of the Cleveland, 
Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad, thence easterly the full 
width of the road to tlie part of the road right-of-way owned by the 
Connnissioners of Greene County, Ohio; 
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PUBLIC LAW 302-MAR. 1, 1954 
[68 STAT. 
Effectiveness. 
(O) Sand Hill Road, beginning at the intersection of Sand Hill 
Road with an east boundary line of the Wright-Patterson Air Force 
Base reservation, the same oeing the west boundary line of the aban-
doned Cincinnati and Lake Erie Railroad, thence westerly to State 
Route Numbered 235; 
(P) Haddix Road, beginning at the intersection of Haddix Road 
with State Route Numbered 235, thence northeasterly with the right 
one-half of the road to the Greene County and Clark County line; 
(Q) Elizabeth Road (Johnson Street), beginning at the intersec-
tion of Elizabeth Road (in Old Osborn) with State Route Numbered 
235, thence northwesterly to Haddix Road; 
(R) Osborn Road, beginning at gate Numbered 260 at the Wright-
Patterson Air Force Base reservation boundary, thence northerly with 
the west one-half of the road to State Route Numbered 235; 
(S) Airway Road, beginning at the intersection of Airway Road 
with the southerly right-of-way of Old Route Numbered 4, thence 
southerly with the westerly one-half of the road to the extreme south-
east corner of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Area "D" 
reservation boundary; 
(T) Old Route Numbered 4, all that part of Old Route Numbered 
4 that may be within the boundaries of Wright-Patterson Air Force 
Base, Area "D". 
The location of the highways and the bounded 
areas are shown and identified by corresponding letter symbols on 
sheet numbered L of a drawing designated: Wright-Patterson Air 
Force Base, Basic Layout Plan, drawing numbered E W F E 150, dated 
December 2, 1952, on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, Depart-
ment of the Army. 
This Act is effective only as to those portions of 
the highways and areas indicated in this Act over which the United 
States has heretofore acquired exclusive jurisdiction and shall not 
affect portions of highways and areas, if any, over which exclusive or 
concurrent jurisdiction is now vested in the State of Ohio. 
SEC. 2. The retrocession of jurisdiction provided for in this Act 
shall take effect upon the acceptance thereof by the General Assembly 
of the State of Ohio. 
Approved February 27, 1954. 
March 1, 1954 
[H. R. 8069] 
Public Law 302 
CHAPTER 58 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of July 10, 1953, which created the Commission on 
Intergovernmental Relations. 
67 Stat. 146. 
S u s e 138a-138j 
note. 
Reports to Pres-
ident. 
5 u s e 138a-138j 
note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,, That subsection (c) 
of section 3 of the Act of July 10, 1953, entitled "An x\.ct to establish 
a Commission on Intergovernmental Relations", is hereby amended 
to read as follows: 
"(c) The Commission, not later than March 1, 1955, shall submit 
to the President for transmittal to the Congress its final report, includ-
ing recommendations for legislative action; and the Commission may 
also from time to time make to the President such earlier reports as 
the President may request or as the Commission deems appropriate." 
SEC. 2. Section 6 of such Act of July 10, 1953, is hereby amended to 
read as follows: 
u, 
TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION 
"SEC. 6. The Commission shall cease to exist at the close of busi-
ness on March 1,1955," 
Approved March 1, 1954.