An Act to authorize a work release program for persons sentenced by the courts of the District of Columbia; to define the powers and duties in relation thereto, and or other purposes
PL 89-803 (S.1319), enacted 11/10/1966

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States. However, a person receiving instruction under this Act is not 
entitled to an appointment in the Armed Forces of the United States 
by reason of his graduation from an Academy. 
(g) A person receiving instruction under this Act is not subject to 
section 4346(d) of title 10, United States Code. 
Approved November 9, 1966. 
70A Stat. 242. 
Public Law 89-803 
A N A C T 
November 10, 1966 
To authorize a work release program for persons sentenced by the courts of the 
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District of Columbia; to define the powers and duties in relation thereto, and 
for other purposes. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America In Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "District of Columbia Work Release Act". 
SEC. 2. There is hereby authorized to be established in the District 
of Columbia a work release program under which any person who is 
(1) convicted of a misdemeanor or of violating a municipal regulation 
or an Act of Congress in the nature of a municipal regulation, and 
is sentenced to serve in a penal institution a term of one year or less, 
(2) imprisoned for nonpayment of a fine, or for contempt of court, or 
(3) committed to jail after revocation of probation pursuant to section 
16-2350, District of Columbia Code, may, whenever the judge of the 
sentencing court is satisfied that the ends of justice and the best inter-
ests of society as well as of such person would be subserved thereby, 
be granted the privilege of a work release for the purpose of working 
at his employment or seeking employment. 
Such a work release privi-
lege may also be granted, m the discretion of the sentencing court, 
whenever there exist such special circumstances as merit the granting 
of the privilege. As used in this Act, the word "sentence" and its 
derivatives shall be construed to include sentencing, imprisonment, 
and commitment as referred to in this section. 
SEC. 3. At the time of imposition of sentence, or at any time sub-
sequent thereto, the probation officers of the courts or the Director, 
Department of Corrections of the District of Columbia, may recom-
mend to, or the person sentenced may request, the sentencing court 
that such person be granted the privilege of a work release. No per-
son shall be given work release privileges except by order of the 
sentencing court. 
SEC. 4. The sentencing court shall provide in its original order of 
commitment or in a modification thereof the terms and conditions 
under which a person granted work release privileges may be released 
from actual custody during the time necessary to proceed to his place 
of employment or other authorized places, perform specified activities, 
and return to a place of confinement designated by the Director, 
Department of Corrections. 
SEC. 5. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are author-
ized to promulgate from time to time such rules and regulations as 
they deem necessary for the administration by the Department of 
Corrections of the work release program. 
Subject to the terms and 
conditions prescribed in the order of the sentencing court, the Com-
missioners are authorized to prepare an individual plan to meet the 
specific needs of each prisoner granted the privilege of a work release. 
SEC. 6. (a) The Director, Department of Corrections, may suspend 
the work release privilege of a prisoner for not to exceed five successive 
days for any breach of discipline or infraction of institution regula-
District of 
Columbia Work 
Release Act. 
77 Stat. 593. 
"Sentence.' 
Granting of work 
release privilege. 
Terms. 
Regulations. 
Temporary sus-
pension or revoca-
tion. 
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tions. The court may revoke the work release privilege at any time, 
either upon its own motion or upon recommendation of the Director, 
Department of Corrections. 
Penalty. 
^I^^ ^j^y prisouer who willfully fails to return at the time and to the 
place of confinement designated in his work release plan shall be fined 
not more than $300 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, 
such sentence of imprisonment to run consecutively with the remainder 
of previously imposed sentences. All prosecutions for violation of 
this subsection shall be in the District of Columbia Court of General 
Sessions upon information filed by the Corporation Counsel of the 
District of Columbia or any of his assistants. 
Collection o
f 
gjjQ^ 7 ^he Commlssiouers are authorized to include in individual 
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work release plans provisions for the collection of the wages, salary, 
earnings, and other income of each gainfully employed prisoner when 
paid, or require that the same be surrendered when received, less pay-
roll deductions required or authorized by law, and to deposit the 
amount so received in a trust fund account in the Treasury of the 
United States. 
Such wages, salary, or earnings in the hands of either 
the employer or the Commissioners during such prisoner's terms shall 
not be subject to garnishment or attachment. 
The Commissioners are 
further authorized in individual work release plans to provide for dis-
bursements from the trust fund account established under this section 
for any or all of the following purposes: (a) the payment of an 
amount not to exceed the lesser of 20 per centum of the prisoner's 
earnings, or $4 per day, as the cost of his room and board; (b) neces-
sary travel expenses to and from work or other business and incidental 
expenses of the prisoner; (c) support of the prisoner's dependents, if 
any; (d) support of minor children pursuant to court order; (e) pay-
ment of court fines or forfeitures; or (f) payment, either in full or 
ratably, of the prisoner's debts which have been acknowledged by him 
in writing or have been reduced to judgment. 
The balance of such 
earnings, if any there be after payments therefrom for the foregoing 
purposes, shall be paid to the prisoner upon the completion of the 
period during which he is subject to confinement. 
^^up^port pay- 
c^j,,-, § Paymcuts for support pursuant to section 7 of this Act shall 
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be made through the clerks of the respective courts. In cases where 
there is no outstanding court order of support or judgment against the 
prisoner, the Director, Department of Public Welfare, or his desig-
nated agent, shall, after investigation, report to the Commissioners the 
amounts deemed necessary for support of the prisoner's dependents. 
SEC. 9. The Attorney General of the United States may, in order to 
carry out the purposes of this Act, designate the Commissioners as 
his authorized representative to perform the functions vested in him 
by section 11 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a Board of Inde-
terminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to 
determine its functions, and for other purposes", approved July 15, 
54 Stat. 244. 
|932, Rs amended (D.C. Code, 1961 edition, sec. 24^25). 
SEC. 10. (a) As used in this Act the term "Commissioners*' means 
the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia or its desig-
nated agents. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to affect the author-
ity vested in the Commissioners by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 
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of 1952 (66 Stat. 824). The performance of any function vested by 
53'^co"mp.*/p.^V2o. this Act iu the Commissioners or in any office or agency under the 
jurisdiction and control of said Commissioners may be performed 
by the Commissioners or may be delegated by said Commissioners 
in accordnnce with section 3 of such plan. 
SEC. 11. Section 9 of the District of Columbia Unemployment Com-
pensation Act (D.C. Code, sec. 46-309) is amended (1) by striking out 
D.C. Code 1 
app; 3 C.FR 1949 
57 Stat. 114. 
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tlie period at the end of clause (e) and inserting in lieu thereof a semi-
colon, and (2) by adding after clause (e) the following new clause: 
"(f) that he is not a prisoner in a District of Columbia cor-
rectional or penal institution who was employed in the free com-
munity under authority of the District of Columbia Work Re-
lease Act, or that he has not made a claim for benefits with respect 
to a week during which he was a prisoner in a District of Columbia 
correctional or penal institution." 
SKC. 12. Except when employed ajid ])aid by the District of Co-
lumbia for the ))(M'fonnan('e of work for the District of Colmnbia 
gOA'ernnient, no prisoner eni])loyed in the free community under the 
pi-o\isions of this Act shall, while working in such employment in 
the free community oi- going to or from sucTi employment, be deemed 
to Im an agent. enlJ)1oye<^ or servant of the District of (^olumbia 
government. 
SKC. l;}. This Act shall take etfect on the first day of the first month 
which follows its appj'o\al by at least ninety days. 
Approved November 10, 1966. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 89-804 
AN ACT 
To amend section 208(c) to provide that certificates issued to motor common 
carriers of passengers pursuant to future applications shall not confer, as 
an incident to the grant of regular route authority, the right to transjxirt 
special or chartered parties. 
November 10, 1966 
[S.2893] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 208(c) 
'^°t°'" cofnmon 
of the Interstate Commerce Act is amended to read as follows: 
'^^chaHer opera-
"(c) Any common carrier by motor vehicle transporting passengers ti°"s. 
under a certificate issued under this part pursuant to an application 
49 use 308. 
filed on or before January 1,1967, or under any reissuance of the oper-
ating rights contained in such certificate, may transport in interstate 
or foreign commerce to any place special or chartered parties under 
such rules and regulations as the Commission shall have prescribed." 
Approved November 10, 1966. 
Public Law 89-805 
AN ACT 
November 10, 1966 
To amend the Tariff Schedules of the United States with respect to the dutiable 
CH. R. 8436] 
status of watches, clocks, and timing api>aratus from insular iK>ssessions of 
the United States. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate end House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled. That (a) paragraph 
(a) of general headnote 8 of the Tariff' Schedules of the LTnited States 
(19 U.S.C. § 1202) is amended— 
(1) by striking out "Articles'* in subparagraph (i) and insert-
ing in lieu thereof "Except as provided in headnote 6 of schedule 
7, part 2, subpait E, articles"; and 
(2) by striking out "except that all articles" in subparagraph 
(i) and inserting in lieu thereof "except that all such articles". 
(b) The headnotes of schedule 7, part 2, subpart E of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States are amended by adding at the end 
thereof the followinjr new headnote: 
Tariff Schedules. 
Watches,clocks, 
etc. 
77A Stat. 11. 
Post, p. 1523. 
Products of in-
sular possessions. 
77A Stat. 347; 
79 Stat. 946.