An Act to amend the act redefining the units and establishing the standards of electrical and photometric measurements to provide that the candela shall be the unit of luminous intensity.
PL 88-165 (S.1064), enacted 11/04/1963

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PUBLIC LAW 88-165-NOV. 4, 1963 
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retarded or community mental health center, from the owners 
thereof) an amount bearing the same ratio to the then value (as 
determined by the agreement of the parties or by action brought in 
the district court of the United States for the district in which the 
center is situated) of so much of such facility or center as constituted 
an approved project or projects, as the amount of the Federal partici-
pation bore to the cost of the construction of such project or projects. 
Such right of recovery shall not constitute a lien upon such facility or 
center prior to judgment. 
STATE CONTROL OF OPERATIONS 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided, nothing in 
this Act shall be construed as conferring on any Federal officer or 
employee the right to exercise any supervision or control over the 
administration, personnel, maintenance, or operation of any facility 
for the mentally retarded or community mental health center with 
respect to which any funds have been or may be expended under this 
Act. 
CONFORMING 
AMENDMENT 
60 Stat. 1048. 
42 u s e 291k. 
SEC. 407. (a) The first sentence of section 633(b) of the Public 
Health Service Act is amended by striking out "eight" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "twelve". The second sentence thereof is amended to 
read: "Six of the twelve appointed members shall be persons who 
are outstanding in fields pertaining to medical facility and health 
activities, and three of these six shall be authorities in matters relat-
ing to the operation of hospitals or other medical facilities, one of 
them shall be an authority in matters relating to the mentally 
retarded and one of them shall be an authority in matters relating to 
mental health, and the other six members shall be appointed to repre-
sent the consumers of services provided by such facilities and shall 
be persons familiar with the need for such services in urban or rural 
areas." 
(b) The terms of office of the additional members of the Federal 
Hospital Council authorized by the amendment made by subsection 
(a) who first take office after enactment of this Act shall expire, as 
designated by the Secretary at the time of appointment, one at the 
end of the first year, one at the end of the second year, one at the end 
of the third year, and one at the end of the fourth year after the 
date of appointment. 
.\pproved October 31, 1963, 10:Cf7 a.m. 
Public Law 88-165 
A N A C T 
November 4, 1963 
To amend the Act redefining the units and establishing the standards of 
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electrical and photometric measurements to provide that the candela shall 
be the unit of luminous intensity. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled^ That the Act 
entitled "An Act to redefine the units and establish the standards of 
electrical and photometric measurements" (Act of July 21, 1950; 
64 Stat. 370) is amended by deleting the word "candle" wherever it 
is use 223. 
appears and inserting in lieu thereof the word "candela". 
Approved November 4, 1963.