An Act to amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to provide for the same cost-of-living adjustments in the basic compensation of officers and members of the United States Park Police force as are given to Federal employees under the General Schedule and to require submittal of a report on the feasibility and desirability of codifying the laws relating to the United States Park Police force.
PL 94-533 (H.R.15276), enacted 10/17/1976

PUBLIC LAW 94-533—OCT. 17, 1976 
90 STAT. 2493 
Public Law 94-533 
94th Congress 
An Act 
To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to 
provide for the same cost-of-living adjustments in the basic compensation of 
officers and members of the United States Park Police force as are given to 
Federal employees under the General Schedule and to require submittal of a 
report on the feasibility and desirability of codifying the laws relating to the 
United States Park Police force. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
PURPOSE 
SECTION 1. The purpose of this Act is to insure that officers and mem-
bers of the United States Park Police force are entitled to adjustments 
in basic compensation in the same overall percentage as are other Fed-
eral employees within the General Schedule under the Federal pay 
comparability system. 
ADJUSTMENTS IN BASIC COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OP 
THE PARK POLICE FORCE 
SEC. 2. Section 501 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's 
Salary Act of 1958 (D.C. Code, sec. 4-833) is amended— 
(1) by striking out "The rates" and inserting in lieu thereof 
"(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the rates" in 
lieu thereof, and 
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: 
"(b) (1) Effective at the beginning at the first applicable pay period 
commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjust-
ment takes effect under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code, in 
the rates of pay under General Schedule, the annual rate of basic 
compensation of officers and members of the United States Park Police 
force shall be adjusted by the Secretary of the Interior by an amount 
(rounded to the next highest multiple of $5) equal to the percentage 
of such annual rate of pay which corresponds to the overall percentage 
(as set forth in the applicable report transmitted to the Congress 
under such section 5305) of the adjustment made in the rates of pay 
under the General Schedule. 
"(2) No adjustment in the annual rate of basic compensation of 
such officers and members may be made except in accordance with 
paragraph (1). 
"(c) Any reference in any law to the salary schedule in section 101 
of this Act with respect to officers and members of the United States 
Park Police force shall be considered to be a reference to such sched-
ule as adjusted in accordance with subsection (b).". 
Oct. 17, 1976 
[H.R. 15276] 
D.C. 
U.S. Park Police, 
compensation, 
cost-of-living 
adjustment. 
D.C. Code 4-833 
note. 
5 u s e 5332 note. 
D.C. Code 4-823. 
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PUBLIC LAW 94-533--OCT. 17, 1976 
REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF CODIFYING I^WS RELATING TO THE 
PARK POLICE 
Report to 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress not 
Congress. 
later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act a report on 
D.C. Code 4-833 
the feasibility and desirability of enacting as a part of the United 
note; 16 USC 1 
States Code those provisions concerning the powers, duties, functions, 
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salaries, and benefits of officers and members of the United States 
Park Police force which presently are contained in several statutes 
and are compiled in the District of Columbia Code. 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
D.C. Code 4-833 
8EC. 4. The aminidments made l)y this Act shall take effect on 
note. 
October 1,1976. 
Approved October 17, 1976. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 94-1473 (Coram, on the District of Columbia). 
SENATE REPORT No. 94-1342 (Comm. on the District of Columbia). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 122 (1976): 
Sept. 13, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate.