An Act to authorize compensation for overtime work performed by officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, and the White House Police force, and for other purposes
PL 89-282 (S.1719), enacted 10/21/1965

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Public Law 89-282 
A N A C T 
\ October 21, 1965 
To authorize compensation for overtime work performed by oflBcers and mem- \ 
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bers of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District 
of Columbia, the United States Park Police force, and the White House 
Police force, and for other purposes. 
D. C. Police 
and Firemen^ 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first'section 
of the Act entitled "An Act to provide a five-day week for officers and ° u.s. park 
members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park ^'^ijf"- „ 
Police force and the White House Police force", approved August 15, PoUce! 
1950, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 4-904), is amended to read as 
64 stat. 447, 
follows: 
"That (a) for purposes of this Act, the following definitions apply. 
Definitions. 
unless the context requires otherwise: 
"(1) 'Authorizing official' means the Board of Commissioners of 
the District of Columbia in the cases of the Metropolitan Police force 
and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the Secretary 
of the Interior in the case of the United States Park Police force, and 
the Secretary of the Treasury in the case of the White House Police 
force. 
"(2) 'Administrative workweek' means a period of seven consecu-
tive calendar days. 
"(3) 'Basic workweek' means a forty-hour workweek, excluding 
rollcall time, in the case of officers and members of the police forces 
specified in this Act; a forty-hour workweek in the case of officers and 
members of the District of Columbia Fire Department other than 
those in the Firefighting Division; and an average workweek of forty-
eight hours in the case of officers and members of the Firefighting 
Division of the District of Columbia Fire Department. 
"(4) 'Basic workday' means an eight-hour day excluding rollcall 
time in the case of officers and members of the police forces specified 
in this Act; an eight-hour day in the case of officers and members of 
the District of Columbia Fire Department other than those in the Fire-
fighting Division; and an average twelve-hour workday in the case 
of officers and members of the Firefighting Division. 
"(5) (A) 'Off-duty days' means the nonwork days which, when 
combined with the basic workdays make up the administrative 
workweek. 
"(B) 'Off-duty time' means the time in any basic workday outside 
the regular tour of an officer or member's duty. 
"(6) 'Rollcall time' means that time, not exceeding one-half hour 
each workday which is in addition to each basic workday of the basic 
workweek for reading of rolls and other preparation for the daily 
tour of duty. 
"(7) 'Rate of basic compensation' means the rate of compensation 
fixed by law for the position held by an officer or member exclusive of 
any deductions or additional compensation of any kind. 
"(8) 'Premium pay' means compensation not considered as salary 
for the purpose of computing deductions for life insurance or for com-
puting annuity payments under the Policemen and Firemen's Retire-
ment and Disability Act. 
"(9) 'Officer or member' means any employee in the Metropolitan 
Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the 
United States Park Police force, or the White House Police force 
whose compensation is fixed and adjusted in accordance with the Dis-
trict of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as 
amended. 
D. c„ code 
71 Stat. 39 1. 
D. C. Code 
4-5 2 1 note. 
4-823 note. 
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Forty hour work-
week, determina-
tion. 
Overtime work. 
Payment. 
78 Stat. 880. 
D. C. Code 
4-823. 
Compensatory 
time, availability. 
"(10) 'Court duty' means attendance by an ojfficer or member in his 
official capacity, excluding his appearance as a defendant, at court or 
at a quasi-judicial hearing. 
"(11) 'Special event' or 'special assignment' means anj planned 
activity or function which the authorizing official designates in 
advance as such. 
" (b) The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the 
Secretary of the Interior, or the Secretary of the Treasury, as the case 
may be, is authorized and directed to establish a basic workweek of 
forty hours to be scheduled on five days foi* the respective police forces 
referred to in this Act: Provided^ That rollcall time shall be without 
compensation or credit to the time of the basic workweek. 
"(c) All officially ordered or approved hours of work (except roll-
call time) performed by officers and members in excess of the basic 
workweek in any administrative workweek, shall be considered as over-
time work and shall be compensated for as provided by this Act. 
"(d) (1) Whenever the authorizing official designates in advance an 
activity or function as a special event, or special assignment, all over-
time work in connection with such special event, or special assign-
ment, shall be compensated for by payment as follows: 
"(i) For each officer or member who receives compensation at 
a rate provided for in class 1 through class 4, in the District of 
Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, 
the overtime work shall be compensated for by payment at one 
and one-half times the basic hourly rate of such officer or member 
and all such compensation shall be considered premium pay. 
"(ii) For each officer or member who receives compensation at 
a rate provided for classes 5 and above, in the District of Columbia 
Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, the over-
time work shall be compensated for by payment at the basic hourly 
rate of such officer or member's basic compensation (except as 
otherwise limited by subsection (h) (1) and (2) of this section) 
and all such compensation shall be considered premium pay. 
"(2) An officer or memiber may elect to receive compensatory time 
off as provided in subsection (f) of this section in lieu of payment for 
overtime work as provided in this subsection. 
"(e) Each officer or member who on any off-duty time performs 
court duty (excluding the first appearance in court on each case), or 
who performs work, as ordered or approved, on any off-duty day shall 
be compensated in accordance with subsection (d) of this section, 
"(f) Overtime work, other than that for which compensation by 
payment or time off is provided by subsections (d) and (e) of this 
section, shall be compensated for by compensatory time off at a rate of 
one hour of compensatory time for each hour of overtime work per-
formed. 
Such compensatory time off shall be granted in accordance 
with the following provisions: 
"(1) The authorizing official, or such person as he may designate 
to act in his place, may, at the request of any officer or member, grant 
such officer or member compensatory time off from his scheduled tour 
of duty in lieu of payment for an equal amount of time spent for over-
time work, including the first appearance for court duty in each case, 
if to grant such leave would not unreasonably diminish the number 
of officers or members available to maintain law, order, and public 
safety. 
"(2) Any officer or member who is eligible for compensatory time 
off and has made application for such compensatory time off, which 
application was denied, may within thirty days of such denial make 
application for compensatory pay at his basic hourly rate of basic 
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compensation and all such compensation shall be considered premium 
pay. 
" (3) Such compensatory time off shall be used within such period of 
time as the authorizing official shall prescribe. If such officer or 
member fails to take such compensatory time off within the prescribed 
period, he shall thereby waive all right to such compensatory time off', 
unless his failure to take such compensatory time off is due to an 
official denial of his request for such compensatory time off. 
Such 
overtime work shall be credited for purposes of compensation in mul-
tiples of one hour, rounded to the nearest hour in case of fractions 
thereof. Thirty minutes or more of any such hour shall be credited 
as one hour. 
"(g) (1) Whenever any officer or member is authorized or directed 
to return to overtime duty at a time which is not an immediate con-
tinuation of his regular tour of duty, such officer or member shall 
receive credit for not less than two hours of overtime work for pur-
poses of compensation under this Act. 
"(2) Overtime work resulting from the immediate continuation of 
an officer's or member's regular tour of duty which, excluding roUcall 
time, is thirty minutes or more in excess of the basic workday shall 
be credited for purposes of compensation under subsection (f) of 
this section. 
"(h) (1) No premium pay provided by this Act shall be paid to, and 
no compensatory time off is authorized for, any officer or member 
whose rate of basic compensation equals or exceeds the minimum 
scheduled rate of basic compensation provided for service step 1 in 
class 10 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act 
of 1958, as amended. 
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"(2) In the case of any officer or member whose rate of basic com- 4.833." 
pensation is less than the minimum scheduled rate of basic compensa-
tion provided for service step 1 in class 10 of the Police and Fire-
men's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, such premium pay may be 
paid only to the extent that such payment would not cause his aggre-
gate rate of compensation to exceed such minimum scheduled rate 
with respect to any pay period. 
"(3) Each authorizing official is authorized to promulgate such 
regulations and issue such orders as are necessary to carry out the 
intent and purpose of this Act, and to delegate to a designated agent 
or agents any of the functions vested in the authorizing official by 
this Act." 
SEC. 2. Paragraph (6) of section 2(a) of the Act entitled "An Act 
Repeal. 
to amend the Act entitled '-An Act to classify the officers and mem-
bers of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for 
other purposes', approved June 20, 1906, and for other purposes", 
approved June 19,1948 (62 Stat. 498), as amended (sec. 4-404a, D.C. 
Code), is repealed. 
SEC. 3. The first sedtion of the Act entitled "An Act to provide 
for granting to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, 
the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and the White 
House and United States Park Police forces additional compensation 
for working holidays", approved October 24, 1951 (65 Stat. 607), as 
amended (sec. 4-807, D.C. Code), is amended by striking the last 
72 stat. 377. 
two of the three provisos thereof, and by inserting, in lieu thereof, 
the following: '•'•Provided further^ That, when an officer or member is 
authorized or directed to work on a holiday and such officer or member 
is required to work longer than his regular tour of duty he shall be 
compensated for such overtime in accordance with the provisions of 
subsection (e) of the first section of the Act approved August 15,1950 
(64 Stat. 447), as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 4-904(e)). 
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SEC. 4. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
Effective date. 
gjjo. 5. This Act shall become effective on the first day of the first 
pay period which begins not less than thirty days after approval of 
this Act. 
Approved October 21, 1965. 
Public Law 89-283 
October 21, 1965 
A N 
A C T 
[H. R. 9042] 
To provide for the implementation of the Agreement Concerning Automotive 
Products Between the Govenmient of the United States of America and the 
Government of Canada, and for other purposes. 
Act of 1965. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
producTs Trade 
United States of America in Congress assenibled^ 
TITLE I—SHORT TITLE AND PURPOSES 
SHORT TITLE 
SECTION 101. This Act may be cited as the "Automotive Products 
Trade Act of 1965". 
PURPOSES 
SEO. 102. The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to provide for the implementation of the Agreement Con-
cerning Automotive Products Between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Canada signed 
on January 16,1965 (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreement"), 
in order to strengthen the economic relations and expand trade 
in automotive products between the United States and Canada; 
and 
(2) to authorize the implementation of such other international 
agreements providing for the mutual reduction or elimination of 
duties applicable to automotive products as the Government of 
the United States may hereafter enter into. 
TITLE II—BASIC AUTHORITIES 
IMPLEMENTATION OF T H E AGREEMENT 
19 u s e 120 2. 
SEC. 201. (a) The President is authorized to proclaim the modifica-
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tious of the Tariff Schedules of the United States provided for in 
title IV of this Act. 
(b) At any time after the issuance of the proclamation authorized 
by subsection (a), the President is authorized to proclaim further 
modifications of the Tariff Schedules of the United States to provide 
for the duty-free treatment of any Canadian article which is original 
motor-vehicle equipment (as defined by such Schedules as modified 
pursuant to subsection (a)) if he determines that the importation of 
such article is actually or potentially of commercial significance and 
that such duty-free treatment is required to carry out the Agreement. 
IMPLEMENTATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS 
SEC. 202. (a) Whenever, after determining that such an agreement 
will afford mutual trade benefits, the President enters into an agree-