An Act making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1962, and for other purposes
PL 87-265 (H.R.8072), enacted 09/21/1961

560 
PUBLIC LAW 87-265-SEPT. 21, 1961 
[75 ST A T . 
September 21, 1961 
[H. R. 8072] 
Public Law 87-265 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other 
activities chargeable in vphole or in part against the revenues of said District 
for the fiscal year ending June 30,1962, and for other purposes. 
District of 
Co-
lumbia Appropria-
tion Act, 1962. 
68 Stat. 104. 
D. C. C o d e 43-
1602. 
D. C. C o d e 43-
1540; D. C. Code 
9-220. 
FEDEKAL PAYMENT TO DISTKICT OF COLUMBIA 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America 
in Congress assetribted^ That there are 
appropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending 
June 30,1962, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia 
(unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known as 
the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, 
and $30,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be 
advanced July 1, 1961), (2) the highway fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established by law (D.C. Code, title 47, ch. 19), 
(3) the water fund (when designated as payable therefrom), estab-
lished by law (D.C. Code, title 43, ch. 15), and $1,855,000, which is 
hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 1961), (4) th3 
sanitary sewage works fund (when designated as payable therefrom), 
established by law (Public Law 364, 83d Congress), and $898,000, 
which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated (to be advanced July 1, 
1961), and (5) the motor vehicle parking fund (when designated as 
payable therefrom), established hj law (D.C. Code, title 40, ch. 8), 
sums as shown herein; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $29,000,000, 
which, together with balances of previous appropriations for this 
purpose, ^ a l l remain available until expended, for loans authorizsd 
by the Act of May 18,1954 (68 Stat. 101), and the Act of June 6,1958 
(72 Stat. 183), to be advanced upon request of the Commissioners to 
the following funds: general fund, $20,400,000, of which $3,600,000 
shall be available for the financing of appropriations made for capital 
outlay during prior fiscal years, and sanitary sewage works fund, 
$8,600,000. 
OPEKATING E X P E N S E S 
For expenses necessary for functions under this general head: 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
General operating expenses, plus so much as may be necessary to 
compensate the Engineer Commissioner at a rate equal to each civilian 
member of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 
hereafter in this Act referred to as the Commissioners; $15,409,760, 
of which $290,000 (to remain available until expended) shall be avail-
able solely for District of Columbia employees' disability compensa-
tion and $113,000 shall be payable from the highway fund, $23,900 
from the water fund, $6,400 from the sanitary sewage works fund, and 
$48,000 from the motor vehicle parking fund: Provided^ That the cer-
tificate of the Commissioners shall be sufficient voucher for the expend-
iture of $2,600 of this appropriation for such purposes, exclusive of 
ceremony expenses, as they may deem necessary. 
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561 
PUBLIC SATETY 
Public safety, including employment of consulting physicians, diag-
nosticians, and therapists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners: 
the present acting captain of the Metropolitan Police in charge of 
the public vehicle unit with the rank and pay of captain while so 
assigned, the present lieutenant in charge of the Accident Investi-
gation Unit of Traffic Division with the rank and pay of captain 
while so assigned, the present senior lieutenant assigned to the Rob-
bery Squad with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned, the 
present lieutenant assigned as Pawn Inspector with the rank and pay 
of captain while so assigned, and the present lieutenant assigned as 
court liaison officer with the rank and pay of captain while so assigned; 
purchase of sixty-two passenger motor vehicles including forty-four 
lor replacement only for police-type use without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year (but not in 
excess of $100 per vehicle above such limitation) and six for other 
replacement purposes; $55,660,627, of which $100,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the judiciary and disbursed by the Administrative Office of 
the United States Courts for expenses of the Legal Aid Agency for 
the District of Columbia, and $44,000 shall be payable from the high-
way fund, and $111,000 from the motor vehicle parking fund: Pro-
vided^ That not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations 
available to the District of Columbia may be used to match financial 
contributions from the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization to 
the District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of 
civil defense equipment and supplies approved by the Office of Civil 
and Defense Mobilization, when authorized by the Commissioners. 
EDUCATION 
Education, including the purchase of five passenger motor vehicles 
including two for replacement only, $54,016,210, of which $569,000 
shall be for development of vocational education in the District of 
Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1960, as amended. 
Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation 
°o"bie salaries. 
Act, approved May 10, 1916, as amended, shall not apply firom July 1 
s^u*s*c^s8" S9 
to August 26, 1961, to teachers of the public schools of the District note. 
of Columbia when employed by any of the branches of the United 
States Government or oy any department or agency of the District 
of Columbia government. 
PARKS AND RECREATION 
Parks and recreation, including purchase of two passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only, and the purchase, acquisition, and 
transportation of specimens for the National Zoological Park, 
$7,980,400, of which $25,000 shall be payable from the highway fund. 
HEALTH AND WELFARE 
Health and Welfare, including purchase of three passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; reimbursement to the United States 
for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hos-
pital ; and for care and treatment of indigent patients in institutions, 
including those under sectarian control, under contracts to be made 
by the Director of Public Health; $61,993,090: Provided^ That the 
inpatient rate and outpatient rate under such contracts and for serv-
ices rendered by Freedmen's Hospital shall not exceed $30 per diem 
and the outpatient rate shall not exceed $5 per visit. 
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[75 STAT. 
HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC 
Highways and Traffic, including $63,200 for traffic safety education 
without reference to any other law; and purchase of forty passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, of which three for use by the 
Commissioners shall be without regard to the statutory limitation on 
the purchase price of passenger-carrying motor vehicles but at a cost 
not to exceed $750 each in addition to the trade-in allowed for the 
present vehicles in use by the Commissioners; $10,818,700, of which 
$7,037,700 shall be payable from the highway fund and $197,500 from 
the motor vehicle parking fund: Provided^ That this appropriation 
shall not be available for the purchase of driver-training vehicles. 
SANITARY ENGINEERING 
Sanitary Engineering, including the purchase of six passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, $19,647,000, of which $190,000 
shall be payable from the highway fund, $6,562,700 shall be payable 
from the water fund, and $3,643,100 shall be payable from the sani-
tary sewage works fund. 
PEISSONAL SERVICES, WAGE-BOARD EMPLOYEES 
For pay increases and related retirement cost for wage-board em-
ployees, to be transferred by the Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia to the appropriations for the fiscal year 1962 from which 
said employees are properly payable, $1,223,000, of which $75,200 shall 
be payable from the highway fund, $112,800 from the water fund, 
and $60,700 from the sanitary sewage works fund. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS AND SUITS 
For the payment of claims in excess of $250, approved by the Com-
missioners in accordance with the provisions of the Act of February 
D.c. c o d e i - 11, 1929, as amended (45 Stat. 1160; 46 Stat. 500; 65 Stat. 131), 
901-1-906. 
$17,188. 
AUDITED 
CLAIMS 
For an amount for the payment of claims, certified to be due by the 
accounting officers of the District of Columbia, under appropriations 
the balances of which have been exhausted or credited to the general or 
special funds of the District of Columbia as provided by law (D.C. 
Code, title 47, sec. 130a), being for the service of the fiscal year 1960 
and prior fiscal years, $44,022, together with such further sums as 
may be necessary to pay the interest on audited claims for refunds at 
not exceeding 4 per centum per annum as provided by law (Act of 
July 10, 1952, 66 Stat. 546, sec. 14d). 
CAPITAL OUTLAY 
For reimbursement to the United States of funds loaned in com-
pliance with section 4 of the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as 
amended, the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 896), as amended, the 
Act of May 14,1948 (62 Stat. 235), and section 108 of the Act of May 
18,1954 (68 Stat. 103), including interest as required thereby; construc-
tion projects as authorized by the Acts of April 22,1904 (33 Stat. 244), 
February 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 91), May 18,1954 (68 Stat. 105,110), June 
6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183), and August 20, 1958 (72 Stat. 686); including 
acquisition of sites; preparation of plans and specifications for the 
D. C. 
2413. 
D, C. 
note. 
D. C. 
103. 
D. C. 
1540. 
D. C. 
15 10; 
132; 9 
804. 
C o d e 47-
Code 8-106 
C o d e 11-
C o d e 43-
C o d e 43-
40-804; 7-
-2 2 0; 4 0-
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563 
following buildings and facilities: Garrison Elementary School 
replacement, elementary school in the vicinity of Fifty-third and C 
Streets Southeast, Palisades Branch Library, replacement of Third 
Precinct station house, and National Zoological Park; for conducting 
the following preliminary surveys: electrical improvements at the 
Lorton Reservation; erection of the following structures, including 
building improvement and alteration and the treatment of grounds: 
Bancroft Elementary School addition, Woodridge Elementary School 
completion, Eliot Junior High School Addition, Davis Elementary 
School addition, Evans Junior High School, elementary school in the 
vicinity of Eleventh and Clifton Streets Northwest, warehouse and 
shops for the Recreation Department, replacement of the dormitories 
for resident physicians and interns at the District of Columbia Gen-
eral Hospital, educational center replacement at the Reformatory, 
children's cottage at the Junior Village, chapel at the District Training 
School, and replacement of dormitories at the District of Columbia 
Village; $302,000 for purchase of equipment for new school buildings; 
to remain available until expended, $43,257,900, of which $6,825,000 
shall not become available for expenditure until July 1,1962, $6,630,000 
shall be payable from the highway fund, $2,840,359 shall be payable 
from the water fund, $9,755,000 shall be payable from the sanitary 
sewage works fund, and $710,000 shall be available for construction 
services by the Director of Buildings and Grounds or by contract for 
architectural engineering services, as may be determined by the Com-
missioners, and the funds for the use of the Director of Buildings and 
Grounds shall be advanced to the appropriation account, "Construc-
tion services. Department of Buildings and Grounds": Provided^ That 
not to exceed $105,000 of funds heretofore appropriated under the 
heading "Capital Outlay, Public Building Construction", 1960, shall 
be available for the preparation of plans and specifications and the 
beginning of construction of a structure to replace the Thirteenth 
Police Precinct station house: Provided further^ That the unexpended 
balances of the amounts previously appropriated under the accounts 
herewith consolidated may be transferred to this account for use for 
the same purposes as appropriated. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided herein, all vouchers covering 
expenditures of appropriations contained in this Act shall be audited 
before payment bv the designated certifying oflEicial and the vouchers 
as approved shall be paid by checks issued by the designated disbursing 
official without countersignature. 
SEC. 3. Whenever in this Act an amount is specified within an appro-
priation for particular purposes or object of expenditure, such amount, 
unless otherwise specified, shall be considered as the maximum amount 
which may be expended for said purpose or object rather than an 
amount set apart exclusively therefor. 
SEC. 4. Appropriations in this Act shall be available, when author-
ized or approved by the Commissioners, for allowances for privately 
owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties at 8 cents 
per mile but not to exceed $25 a month for each automobile, unless 
otherwise therein specifically provided, except that sixty-two such 
allowances at not more than $410 each per annum may be authorized 
or approved by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for expenses 
of travel and for the payment of dues of organizations concerned with 
the work of the District of Columbia government, when authorized by 
74 Stat. 26. 
Maximum amount. 
A u t o m o b i l e 
lowances,, 
al-
Travel and dues. 
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[75 ST A T . 
60 Stat. 81'0. 
Advances, 
Public Utilities 
Commission, 
Restrictions. 
Street lighting. 
Passenger motor 
vehicles. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Snow re I 
Rentals, 
noval. 
58 Stat. 532. 
D. C, C o d e 1-
243. 
Uniforms. 
Re fund s 
ments. 
D. C. C 
1910. 
70 Stat. 
D, C, C 
1586j. 
74 Stat. 
74 Stat. 
74 Stat. 
; j u d g -
e d e 47-
78. 
o d e 47-
17. 
2 3 . 
20, 24. 
the Commissioners: Provided^ That the total expenditures for this 
purpose shall not exceed $65,000. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for services as 
j»,uthorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a). 
SEC. 7. The disbursing officials designated by the Commissioners 
are authorized to advance to such officials as may be approved by the 
Commissioners such amounts and for such purposes as the Commis-
sioners may determine. 
SEC. 8. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in con-
nection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement 
of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requir-
ing the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with 
the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for oper-
ation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and 
regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the 
Public Utilities Conmiission. 
SEC. 9. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the 
payment of rates for electric current for street lighting in excess of 
2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. 
SEC. 10. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (includ-
ing 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 assign-
ment for use thereof, or direct the alteration of interchangeable 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. 
SEC. 11. Appropriations contained in this Act for Highways and 
Traffic, and Sanitary Engineering shall be available for snow and 
ice control work when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. 
SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall be available when author-
ized by the Commissioners, for the rental of quarters without reference 
to section 6 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945. 
SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall be available for the fur-
nishing of uniforms when authorized by the Commissioners. 
SEC. 14. There are hereby appropriated from the applicable funds 
of the District of Coliunbia such sums as may be necessary for making 
refunds and for the payment of judgments which have been entered 
against the government of the District of Columbia, including refunds 
authorized by section 10 of the Act approved April 23, 1924 (43 Stat. 
108) : Provided^ That nothing contained in this section shall be con-
strued as modifying or affecting the provisions of paragraph 3, 
subsection (c) of section 11 of title X I I of the District of Columbia 
Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947, as amended. 
SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and 
legislative provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appro-
priation Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1962: Provided^ 
That the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of 
Buildings and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act, 1961, shall be increased from 6 to 7 per centum 
of appropriations for construction projects: Provided further^ That 
the appropriation for "Additional Municipal Services, Inaugural 
Ceremonies" and "Capital Outlay, Washington Aqueduct" included in 
the District of Columoia Appropriation Act, 1961, shall not be avail-
able in fiscal year 1962. 
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SEC. 16. The appropriation contained herein for "Cai)ital Outlay" 1^",?^^^'^^ °"*" 
shall be withheld from obligation hv deletion of projects in an amount 
Deletion o
f proj-
sufficient to assure the operation of the District of Columbia govern- **'*^-
ment within available revenues in the event of failure of enactment 
of H.R. 258, Eighty-seventh Confess, or other similar legislation. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
^short titie. 
Act, 1962". 
Approved September 21, 1961. 
Public Law 87-266 
A N A C T 
September 21, 1961 
To amend the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended, to encourage the 
^ ' ' ^ ^^^ 
construction and maintenance of American-flag vessels built in American 
shipyards. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 901 (b) 
Merchant Marine 
of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 1241), is iien't/"^' ^ 
' 
hereby amended by inserting at the end thereof the following: "For 
American-fiag 
• 
• 
^
^ 
• 
• 
^^/"w 
Vessels 
purposes of this section, the term 'privately owned United States- 
gg stat, 832. 
flag commercial vessels' shall not be deemed to include any vessel 
which, subsequent to the date of enactment of this amendment, shall 
have been either (a) built outside the United States, (b) rebuilt outside 
the United States, or (c) documented under any foreign registry, until 
such vessel shall have been documented under the laws of the United 
States for a period of three years: Provided^ however^ That the 
provisions of this amendment shall not apply where, (1) prior to the 
enactment of this amendment, the owner or a vessel, or contractor for 
the purchase of a vessel, originally constructed in the United States 
and rebuilt abroad or contracted to be rebuilt abroad, has notified the 
Maritime Administration in writing of its intent to document such 
vessel under United States registry, and such vessel is so documented 
on its first arrival at a United States port not later than one year 
subsequent to the date of the enactment of this amendment, or (2) 
where prior to the enactment of this amendment, the owner of a vessel 
under United States registry has made a contract for the rebuilding 
abroad of such vessel and has notified the Maritime Administration of 
such contract, and such rebuilding is completed and such vessel is 
thereafter documented under United States registry on its first arrival 
at a United States port not later than one year subsequent to the date 
of the enactment of this amendment." 
Approved September 21, 1961. 
Public Law 87-267 
A N A C T 
September 21, 1961 
To repeal sections 1176 and 1177 of the Revised Statutes of the United States 
[H. R. 7622] 
relating to the District of Columbia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That sections 1176 te^Vi^ie's.*' * *" 
and 1177 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the 
District of Columbia (18 Stat. 136; D.C. Code, sees. 22-3401, 3402, 
^7 stat. 464. 
and 3403) are hereby repealed. 
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Approved September 21, 1961.