An Act to establish a Department of Food Services in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
PL 82-159 (S.1349), enacted 10/08/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 159—OCT. 8, 1951 
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Public Law 158 
CHAPTER 4 4 5 
AN ACT 
To increase the lending authority of Export-Import Bank of Washington and 
to extend the period within which the bank may make loans. 
October 3, 1951 
[S.2006] 
12 U. 
note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amet'ica in Congress ossemMed^ That the Export- Bank°A'"t^'f^i94V 
Import Bank Act of 1945, as amended (59 Stat. 526, 666; 61 Stat. 130), amendment. ° 
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is hereby amended in the following particulars: 
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(a) By deleting from section 6 the words "two and one-half" and 
substituting in lieu thereof the words "three and one-half"; and 
(b) By deleting from section 7 the words "three and one-half" 
and substituting in lieu thereof the words "four and one-half"; and 
(c) By deletmg from section 8 the date "June 30, 1953" and sub-
stituting in lieu thereof the date "June 30,1958". 
Approved October 3, 1951. 
Public Law 159 
CHAPTER 448 
AN ACT 
To establish a Department of Food Services in the public schools of the District 
of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
October 8,1951 
[S. 1349] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ 
TITLE I—PUBLIC SCHOOL CAFETERIAS AND 
LUNCHROOMS 
D. 0. Public School 
Food Services Act. 
SECTION 1. That there is hereby created in the public schools of the se?^c*e^s™Tstabfi3h^ 
District of Columbia a Department of Food Services, which Depart- ment. 
ment, under the direction and control of the Board of Education of 
the District of Columbia, hereinafter referred to as the "Board", is 
hereby authorized to conduct a centralized system of public school 
cafeterias, lunchrooms, and related services, hereinafter referred to as 
"food services". 
SEC. 2. For carrying out the purposes of this Act, the Board is 
empowered— 
(a) to establish in the Department of Food Services an Office 
of Central Management consisting of a Director and Assistant 
Directors of Food Services, whose compensation shall be fixed in 
accordance with the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act 
of 1947, as amended; 
(b) to make and enforce such rules and regulations as it deems 
necessary for the government of the Department of Food Services 
and for the use and enjoyment of the facilities and services of such 
department; 
(c) upon the written recommendation of the Superintendent soS°*^^™^°* ^
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of Schools, to employ such personnel as may be required to man-
age cafeterias, lunchrooms, and related services and to conduct 
the Office of Central Management. 
The compensation of such 
personnel, other than the Director and Assistant Directors of 
Office of Central 
Management. 
61 Stat. 248. 
Rules and regula-
tions. 
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63 Stat. 954. 
5 U. 8.0. §1071 note. 
63 Stat. 842. 
Personnel for opera-
tion, etc., of food serv-
ices. 
Compensation for 
holidays. 
Annual leave, etc. 
Sick leave. 
P a r t - t i m e 
em^ 
ployees. 
Gifts of money. 
Service credit for 
retirement. 
46 Stat. 468. 
5 U. S. C. §§ 691 
note, 707. 
5 U. S. O. § 736b. 
Food Services, shall be fixed in accordance with the Classification 
Act of 1949: Provided^ That the salaries of persons employed to 
manage cafeterias, lunchrooms, and related services shall be paid 
in installments and computed in accordance with the provisions 
of the fourth and fifth paragraphs under the subheading "For 
allowance to principals" under the caption "Public schools" con-
tained in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act making appropria-
tions to provide for the expenses of the government of the District 
of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and nine, and for other purposes", approved May 26, 
1908 (35 Stat. 290, 291), as amended (sec. 31-609, D. C. Code, 
1940 edition) : And provided further^ That such persons shall not 
be entitled to leave with pay of any kind except that which is 
allowed teachers under the District of Columbia Teachers' Leave 
Act of 1949; 
(d) upon the written recommendation of the Superintendent of 
Schools, to employ on a full-time or part-time basis such personnel 
as may be required for the operation and maintenance of food 
services at rates of pay to be fixed by said Board without reference 
to the Classification Act of 1949, and with respect to part-time 
employees without regard to prohibitions or limitations relating 
to dual compensation as contained in any Act of Congress. Per-
sons employed under the provisions of this paragraph shall be 
entitled to compensation for all time when and as they perform 
service, and, in addition thereto, shall be entitled to compensation 
for such holidays as fall within a regular tour of duty of not less 
than five days in any established workweek. Persons employed 
under this paragraph shall not be entitled, by reason of such 
service, to vacation or annual leave with pay. 
Notwithstanding 
the provisions of any other law, such persons shall be entitled to 
sick leave with pay, to be cumulative at the rate of one day a 
month, September to June, inclusive, of each year, the total cumu-
lation not to exceed thirty days, to be granted under such condi-
tions as the Board may by regulation prescribe: Provided, 
That 
as to part-time employees such leave shall be pro rated on an 
hourly basis. The days of sick leave with pay provided for in 
this section shall mean days on which employees would otherwise 
work and receive pay and shall be exclusive of Saturdays, Sun-
days, holidays, and vacation periods authorized by the Board; 
(e) upon the written recommendation of the Superintendent 
of Schools, to accept for the benefit of the program of food services 
gifts of money which shall be deposited in the fund created by 
section 4 of this Act, and of personal property and volunteer 
personal service. 
SEC. 3. Service rendered by any person for salary or wages as an 
employee of any cafeteria or lunchroom operated in the public school 
buildings of the District during any period prior to the date when 
such cafeteria or lunchroom is placed under the office of central man-
agement shall, if and when such person becomes an employee of the 
Department of Food Services, be deemed to be service rendered for 
the government of the District of Columbia for purposes of the Civil 
Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended, to be 
computed in accordance with section 5 of such Act: Provided, That 
such person shall make deposits covering such service as provided in 
section 9 of such Act: And provided further, That any such person 
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may elect to make such deposits in installments in accordance with 
the provisions of section 9 of such Act, 
SEC. 4. Article I I of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' 
Salary Act of 1947, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting the 
following new salary schedules immediately after the salary schedule 
for Class 34—Child Labor Inspectors: 
"DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES 
" C L A S S 35 
^DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES 
"A basic salary of $6,000 per year, with an annual increase in salary 
of $200 for five years, or until a maximum salary of $7,000 per year is 
reached. 
61 Stat. 260. 
" C L A S S 3 6—ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES 
"A basic salary of $5,000 per year, with an annual increase in salary 
of $200 for five years, or until a maximum salary of $6,000 per year is 
reached." 
SEC. 5. There is hereby created in the Treasury of the United States 
a fund to be known as "District of Columbia Public School Food 
Services Fund", hereinafter referred to as the "Food Services Fund", 
and there is authorized to be appropriated, out of the revenues of the 
District of Columbia, $25,000 which shall be credited to the Food 
Services Fund. 
All revenues and receipts of any nature whatever 
derived from the operation of food services, or as provided otherwise 
by this Act, shall, under regulations of the Board, be paid over to the 
doUector of Taxes of the District of Columbia not less often than 
once each week and by him deposited in the Treasury of the United 
States to the credit of the Food Services Fund. 
Such fund shall be 
used as a permanent revolving fund and expenditures therefrom shall 
be made only upon vouchers certified by the Superintendent of Schools 
or his designated agent and approved before payment by the Auditor 
of the District of Columbia, and shall be disbursed in the same manner 
as other District of Columbia funds are disbursed. 
The Food Services 
Fund shall be available for the purchase of food, supplies, and all 
other services and expenditures of whatever nature which are neces-
sary for the conduct of the Department of Food Services, including 
personal services, the operation and maintenance of motor trucks, 
and the expenses of conducting the Office of Central Management. 
SEC. 6. Appropriations are hereby authorized for the acquisition, 
maintenance and replacement of equipment used or acquired for use 
in the conduct of the Department of Food Services in the public schools 
of the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 7. (a) All funds, whether in cash or other form, in the custody 
or possession of the person or persons operating cafeterias and lunch-
rooms in public school buildings of the District of Columbia which 
funds have been derived from such operations shall, on the date such 
cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under the Office of Central Man-
agement, be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, and 
deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States to the credit 
of the Food Services Fund, and all supplies and equipment of whatever 
nature acquired for use in such cafeterias and lunchrooms shall, by 
the person or persons having custody or possession of such supplies 
and equipment, be returned or transferred to the Board of Education, 
Food 
Services 
Fund. 
Appropriation au-
thorized. 
Deposit of receipts. 
Expenditures from 
fund. 
Equipment. 
Appropriation au-
thorized. 
Payment and de-
posit of fimds. 
Transfer of su pplies, 
etc. 
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Time limitation. 
School-lunch pro-
gram. 
60 Stat. 230. 
42 U. 8. C. § 1751 
note. 
Audits. 
Citation of title. 
together with all books and records pertaining to the same: Provided, 
That the Board of Education shall place all such cafeterias and lunch-
rooms under the Office of Central Management not more than one 
year after the Department of Food Services is established by said 
Board. 
(b) All obligations incurred for food, supplies, and equipment used 
or usable in the conduct of cafeterias and lunchrooms unsatisfied on 
the day the respective cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under 
the Office of Central Management, shall be paid from the Food 
Services Fund. 
SKC. 8. Insofar as the Board shall conduct a school-lunch program 
under the authority of this title, it shall be considered a "school" 
within the meaning of the National School Lunch Act, and all funds 
to which it may thus become entitled as a participating school under 
the National School Lunch Act shall be deposited in the fund created 
by section 5 hereof. 
SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Auditor of the District of 
Columbia to audit at least quarterly the accounts of the Department 
of Food Services and make reports thereof to the Commissioners of 
the District of Columbia. 
SEC. 10. This title may be cited as the "District of Columbia Public 
School Food Services Act". 
TITLE II—DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES 
Commodity 
tracts. 
Milk program. 
Appropriations au-
thorized. 
SEC. 201. The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is 
authorized (a) to enter into a contract or contracts from time to time 
with the United States Department of Agriculture for the distribution 
to schools and to public and charitable institutions of commodities 
made available by said Department, and (b) to carry out, under regu-
lations of the said Board, a program or programs of furnishing milk 
to school children in the District, including the purchase and distribu-
tion of milk under agreement with the United States Department of 
Agriculture: Provided^ That all moneys collected under such program 
or programs shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes of the District 
of Columbia for deposit into the Treasury of the United States to the 
credit of the District. 
SEC 202. Appropriations are hereby authorized to enable the 
Board of Education to carry out the contracts and programs author-
ized by this title. 
Approved October 8, 1951. 
October 10, 1951 
[S. 1183] 
Public Law 160 
CHAPTER 4 5 7 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the construction, protection, 
operation, and maintenance of public airports in the Territory of Alaska", as 
amended. 
Alaska. 
Public airports. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Ainerica in Congress assembled^ That section 5 of the