An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to pay relocation costs made necessary by actions of the District of Columbia government, and for other purposes
PL 88-629 (S.1024), enacted 10/06/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-629-OCT. 6, 1964 
[78 STAT. 
October 6, 1964 
[S. 10 24] 
Public Law 88-629 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to pay relocation 
costs made necessary by actions of the District of Columbia government, and 
for other purposes. 
D.C. 
Relocation 
services. 
60 Stat. 797. 
Payments for 
expenses. 
District of 
Columbia Reloca-
tion Assistance 
Office. 
60 Stat. 790. 
Regulations. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That the Commis-
sioners of the District of Colmnbia are hereby authorized to provide 
such relocation services as they shall determine to be reasonable and 
necessary to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit 
organizations which may be or have been displaced from real property 
by actions of the United States or of the government of the District 
of Columbia, except the District of Columbia Eedevelopment Land 
Agency, such actions to include, but not be limited to, acquisition of 
propertjr for public works projects, condemnation of unsafe and insan-
itary buildings, and enforcement of the laws and regulations relating 
to housing. The Commissioners shall provide that such individuals 
and families so displaced shall be given the same preference with re-
spect to vacancies occurring in housing owned or operated within the 
District of Columbia by Federal or District of Columbia governmental 
agencies as is provided in section 8(b) of the District of Columbia 
Eedevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-707(b)). 
The Com-
missioners are authorized to make housing surveys in order to carry 
out this Act. 
SEC. 2. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to make relocation 
payments to individuals, families, business concerns, and nonprofit 
organizations for their reasonable and necessary moving expenses and 
any actual direct losses of property except goodwill or profit caused by 
their displacement from real property acquired by the Commissioners 
after the effective date of this Act for public works projects of the gov-
ernment of the District of Columbia, except the District of Columbia 
Redevelopment Land Agency. No such payment shall be made in any 
case where a payment for a similar purpose is authorized by any other 
Act. Such relocation payments shall be made in accordance with reg-
ulations prescribed by the Commissioners and shall not for any one 
relocation exceed $200 in the case of an individual or family or $3,000 
(or, if greater, the total certified actual moving expense not to exceed 
$25,000) in the case of a business concern or nonprofit organization. 
SEC. 3. Prior to the acquisition of real property for any public works 
project of the government of the District of Columbia the Commis-
sioners shall make the same determinations with respect to the availa-
bility of housing for displaced individuals and families as is required 
by section 8(a) of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 
(D.C. Code, sec. 5-707(a)). 
SEC. 4. There is hereby established within the District of Columbia 
Redevelopment Land Agency an office to be known as the District of 
Columbia Relocation Assistance Office (hereinafter referred to as the 
"Office"). The Office shall provide the relocation services authorized 
by the first section of this Act, administer the payments authorized by 
section 2 of this Act, and provide the relocation assistance which the 
District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency is authorized to 
grovide by the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. 
iode, sec. 5-701 et seq.) and any other Act. 
SEC. 5. The Commissioners are hereby authorized to make regula-
tions to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 6, This Act shall take effect sixty days after the date of its 
approval. 
Approved October 6,1964.