An Act to provide for a reduction in the workweek of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
PL 87-697 (S.3086), enacted 09/25/1962

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PUBUC LAW 87-697-SEPT. 25, 1962 
[76 STAT. 
SepterrfDer 25,1962 
[S.3086] 
Public Law 87-697 
AN ACT 
To provide for a reduction in the workweek of the Fire Department of the Dis-
trict of Colnnibia, and for other purposes. 
D. C. Fire Dept, 
Reduction in 
workweek. 
34 Stat. 314. 
75 Stat. 830. 
Workweek. 
Temporary serv-
ices. 
Computation of 
pay. 
75 Stat. 832. 
Annual leave. 
Accrual. 
5 u s e 2062. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Houne of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph (a) 
of subsection (a) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend 
the Act entitled 'An Act to classify the officers and members 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. 4^04a(a), D.C. Code, 1961 edi-
tion), is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) (1) Beginning with the first day of the first pay period which 
begins not less than one hundred and twenty days after enactment of 
this amendatory subsection or which begins on or after July 1, 1962, 
whichever is later, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are 
authorized and directed to establish a workweek for officers and mem-
bers of the Firefighting Division of the Fire Department of the Dis-
trict of Columbia which will result in an average workweek of not 
to exceed forty-eight hours during an administratively established 
workweek cycle which the Commissioners are hereby authorized to 
establish from time to time." 
SEC. 2, (a) Paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of subsection 
(a) of section 2 of such Act approved June 19,1948 (62 Stat. 498), as 
amended (sec. 4-404a(a), D.C. Code, 1961 edition), are hereby redesig-
nated as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6), respectively. 
(b) Paragraph (c) of subsection (a) of section 2 of such Act 
approved June 19, 1948, as amended, and redesignated as paragraph 
(3) by this section, is amended by striking thereirom the period and 
inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: '•^Provided^ That 
notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the Commissioners 
of the District of Columbia or their designated agent or agents may, 
whenever the exigencies of the Fire Department require temporary 
or short-term services of one or more officers or members, order such 
officer, officers, member, or members to perform such services." 
SEC. 3. Clause (E) of subsection (b) of section 405 of the District of 
Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1953 (67 Stat. 76), as 
amended (sec. 4-821, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), is amended to read as 
follows: 
"(E) In the case of the Firefighting Division of the Fire 
Department of the District of Columbia— 
"(i) a biweekly rate shall be divided by two to derive a 
weekly rate; 
"(ii) the weekly rate shall be divided by the number of 
workdays in the average established workweek to arrive at a 
daily rate; 
"(iii) a daily rate shall be divided by two to derive a one-
half daily rate; and 
"(iv) an hourly rate shall be determined by dividing the 
daily rate of pay by tw^elve, except for the purpose of com-
putation of holiday pay." 
SEC. 4. (a) In lieu of the annual leave to which officers and members 
of the Firefighting Division of the Fire Department of the District of 
Columbia are entitled under the provisions of section 203(a) of the 
Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 (.65 Stat. 679), as amended, such 
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oflGicers and members shall be entitled to annual leave which shall 
accrue as follows: 
(1) Four and eight-tenths hours for each full biw^eekly pay 
period in the case of officers and members with less than three 
years' service; 
(2) Seven and five-tenths hours for each full biweekly pay 
period in the case of officers and members with three but less than 
fifteen years' service; 
(3) Nine and six-tenths hours for each biweekly pay period in 
the case of officers and members with fifteen years' or more service. 
(b) Accumulated annual leave to the credit of each officer and 
member of such Firefighting Division shall be adjusted by applying 
a four-fifths factor so that each officer and member of such Firefighting 
Division shall be given credit for four-fifths of a day of leave for 
each day of such accumulated annual leave, and thereafter accumu-
lated annual leave credited to him pursuant to the Annual and Sick 
Leave Act of 1951, as amended, shall be similarly adjusted when an 
officer or member is transferred to the Firefighting Division from 
another agency or from another division of the Fire Department. 
(c) When an officer or member of such Firefighting Division is 
transferred to another agency or to another division of the Fire 
Department, whose employees are entitled to annual leave with pay 
pursuant to the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, as amended, the 
reverse of the formula in subsection (b) shall be applied for the pur-
pose of adjusting accumulated annual leave. 
(d) For computation on an hourly basis, all adjusted days of annual 
leave or fractions thereof, as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of 
this section, and days of sick leave shall be multiplied by twelve to 
determine the number of hours of annual or sick leave to which each 
such officer or member of such Firefighting Division shall be entitled, 
and the number of hours of annual or sick leave shall be divided by 
twelve to determine the number of days, or fraction thereof, of annual 
or sick leave to which such officer or member of such Firefighting 
Division shall be entitled. 
(e) Notwithstanding any provision in any other law, the amount of 
annual leave accumulated on the effective date of this Act, if thirty 
days or more, shall, upon conversion to the new total in accordance 
with this section, be the maximum accumulation authorized: Provided^ 
That if the amount of annual leave accumulated before the conversion 
is less than thirty days on the effective date of this Act, then, after 
conversion to the new total, leave which is not used shall accumulate 
for use in succeeding years until it totals no more than twenty-four 
days at the beginning of the first complete biweekly pay period. 
SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the first pay 
period which begins not less than one hundred and twenty days after 
its enactment, or on or after the first day of the first pay period which 
Ijegins on or after July 1, 1962, whichever is later. 
Approved September 25, 1962. 
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note. 
Computation on 
hourly basis. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 87-698 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of August 27, 1954 (68 Stat. 868) with respect to the Uintah 
and Ouray Reservation in Utah. 
September 25,1962 
[S. 1924] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United /States of America in Congress assembled, That section 10 of 
the Act of August 27,1954 (68 Stat. 868) is amended by adding at the 
end thereof the following: 
Indians. 
Uintah and 
Ouray Reserva-
tion, Utah. 
Stock. 
25 u s e 677i.