An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint a member of the Metropolitan Police Department or a member of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia as Director of the District Office of Civil Defense, and for other purposes"", approved May 21, 1951
PL 83-103 (H.R.3425), enacted 07/06/1953

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of 1951, as amended by this Act, within a reasonable period of years, 
consistent with the exigencies of the public business, and to make such 
reports with respect to the action taken as may be requested by the 
Civil Service Commission. 
The Civil Service Commission shall 
include in its annual report to the Congress a statement of the progress 
made in carrying out the purposes of this section. 
SEC. 7. (a) Section 401 of the Independent Offices Appropriation 
Act, 1953 (Public Law 455, Eighty-second Congress), is repealed, 
effective as of June 29, 1953. 
(b) Sections 3 and 4 of the Act of December 21, 1944, are hereby 
repealed. 
SEC. 8. The first section and section 2 of this Act shall take effect on 
the first day of the first pay period which begins after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
Approved July 2, 1953. 
5 u s e 2062. 
R e p o r t to Coii> 
gress. 
Effective dates. 
66 Stat. 418. 
5 u s e 2062a. 
58 Stat. 846. 
5 u s e 6 Id, 61e. 
Public Law 103 
CHAPTER 179 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Dis-
trict of Columbia to appoint a member of the Metropolitan Police Department 
or a member of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia as Director 
of the District Office of Civil Defense, and for other purposes", approved 
May 21, 1951. 
July 6, 1953 
[H. RT 3425] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate arid House of ^Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemMed, That the Act entitled 
"An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 
to appoint a member of the Metropolitan Police Department or a 
member of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia as 
Director of the District Office of Civil Defense, and for other pur-
poses", approved May 21, 1951 (Public Law 37, Eighty-second 
Congress), is amended to read as follows: 
"That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized 
to appoint a member of the Metropolitan Police Department or a 
member of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia to any 
position in any office or agency of the government of the District of 
Columbia, to which office or agency there may be transferred the 
functions of the Office of Civil Defense (authorized to be abolished 
by Reorganization Plan Number 5 of 1952), with the salary provided 
by law for such position, chargeable to the appropriation for the 
newly established office or agency: Provided, That during the tenure 
of his appointment such member so appointed shall be deemed to be 
a member of such Metropolitan Police Department or such Fire 
Department, as the case may be, for all purposes of rank, seniority, 
allowances, privileges and benefits, including retirement and disability 
benefits under the provisions of section 12 of the Act approved Sep-
tember 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718-721), as amended, to the same extent 
as though the appointment had not been made, and at the termination 
of such appointment he shall be entitled to resume his status within 
the Metropolitan Police Department or Fire Department, as the case 
may be, which shall include any promotion in rank to which he may 
have become entitled: Provided 
further, 
That retirement and dis-
ability benefits and salary deductions shall be based on the salary of 
the rank or position held in the Metropolitan Police Department or 
the Fire Department, as the case may be, prior to his appointment 
to such position in such office or agency succeeding to the functions 
of the Office of Civil Defense or the salary of the position or rank 
C i v i l 
defense, 
D. C. 
Appointments. 
65 Stat. 44. 
66 Stat. 825. 
D. e . Code 4-113 
to 4-597, 
passim. 
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he would have attained in the Metropolitan Police Department or the 
Fire Department had his appointment to such position in such office 
or agency not been made, whichever is greater. 
"SEC. 2. As used in this Act the terms 'Metropolitan Police Depart-
ment' and 'Fire Department' shall include, respectively, offices or 
agencies succeeding to the functions of such departments pursuant 
to Reorganization Plan Number 5 of 1952." 
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect at such time as the Commissioners 
of the District of Columbia shall transfer the functions of the Office 
of Civil Defense of the District of Columbia to a newly established 
Office of Civil Defense or any other office or agency, pursuant to 
Reorganization Plan Number 5 of 1952. 
Approved July 6, 1953. 
July 6, 1953 
[S. 1550] 
Public Law 104-
CHAPTER 180 
AN ACT 
To authorize the President to prescribe the occasions upon which the uniform of 
any of the Armed Forces may be worn by persons honorably discharged 
therefrom. 
Armed Forces, 
Uniforms. 
10 use 1393. 
10 u s e 
1028b; 
14 u s e 16 7b-2; 
34 use 399d. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 125 of 
the Act of June 3,1916 (39 Stat. 216), as amended, is further amended 
by deleting the words "of ceremony" wherever they appear therein 
and substituting therefor the words "authorized by regulations of the 
President". 
SEC. 2. Section 2 of the Act of June 21, 1930 (46 Stat. 793), as 
amended, is further amended by deleting the words "of ceremony" and 
substituting therefor the words "authorized by regulations of the 
President". 
Approved July 6, 1953. 
Jvay 8, 1953 
CS.35] 
Public Law 105 
CHAPTER 181 
AN ACT 
To amend the Federal Airport Act in order to provide for an extension for a limited 
period of the program for the repair and rehabilitation of public airports dam-
aged by Federal agencies, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Federal Airport United Stotcs of America in Congress assembled, That section 17 of the 
62 i^1?iiiu' 
Federal Airport Act, as amended, is hereby amended as follows: 
R^eYm'bm-slment 
(^) ^J deleting the last sentence of subsection (c) and inserting in 
for damage to pub- lieu thereof the following: "Appropriations made pursuant to this 
ic airpo s. 
subsection shall remain available until expended." 
(b) By amending subsection (d) to read as follows: 
"TIME LIMITATIONS ON FILING OF REQUESTS 
"(d) No request for reimbursement of the cost of rehabilitation or 
repair of a public airport submitted pursuant to this section shall be 
considered by the Secretary unless such request was submitted to him 
within six months after the occurrence of the damage upon which the 
request is based, or, in the case of a request relating to damage occurring 
while the airport was under the control and management of the United 
States, within six months after the transfer of such control and man-