An Act to authorize certain teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia to count as creditable service for retirement purposes certain periods of authorized leave without pay taken by such teachers for educational purposes.
PL 86-525 (S.2439), enacted 06/27/1960

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PUBLIC LAW 86-525-JUNE 27, 1960 
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SEC. 3. This Act shall not be considered as affecting the authority 
vested in the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia by 
Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824), and the per-
formance of any function vested by said plan in the Board of Commis-
sioners or in any office or agency under the jurisdiction and control 
of said Board of Commissioners in accordance with section 3 of such 
plan. Any function vested by this Act in any office or agency estab-
lished pursuant to such plan shall be deemed to be vested in said Board 
of Commissioners and shall be subject to delegation in accordance 
with said plan. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
June 27, 1960 
[S. 2439] 
Public Law 86-525 
AN ACT 
To authorize certain teacliers in the public schools of the District of Columbia to 
count as creditable service for retirement purposes certain periods of authorized 
leave without pay taken by such teachers for educational purposes. 
D. C. teachers. 
Retirement. 
D. C. Code 
721-739. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That any teacher 
who, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, retires pursuant to 
the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers 
in the District of Columbia", approved August 7,1946 (60 Stat. 875), 
as amended, shall be entitled to nave included in the years of service 
creditable to him for retirement purposes any period of authorized 
leave of absence which was taken by him without pay, and for edu-
cational purposes; except that credit for any such period shall be con-
ditioned upon the deposit by such teacher to the credit of the teachers' 
retirement and annuity fund of the District of Columbia of a sum 
equal to the accumulated contributions and interest which would have 
been credited to his individual account if he had remained on active 
duty in the public schools of the District of Columbia during any 
such period: Provided^ That in order to receive such retirement credit 
a teacher must produce evidence satisfactory to the Superintendent 
of Schools of the District of Columbia that the authorized leave of 
absence Avithout pay was taken for educational purposes. 
Approved June 27, 1960. 
June 
27, 1960 
[H. 
R. 10183] 
Public Law 86-526 
AN ACT 
To amend the Fire and Casualty Act regulating the business of fire, marine, and 
casualty insurance in the District of Columbia. 
Fire and Casu-
alty Act, D. C. 
Amendment. 
54 Stat. 1073. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 20 of 
the Fire and Casualty Act (D.C. Code 35-1323) is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new sentence: "Any company 
chartered by special act of the legislature of its State of domicile prior 
to the effective date of this Act, as provided in section 48 of this Act, 
as a company without capital stock but doing business exclusively on 
the stock plan and maintaining at all times a surplus of not less than 
$300,000 shall, in the administration of this Act, be considered as a 
stock company." 
Approved June 27, 1960.