An Act to amend section 4202 of title 18, United States Code, relating to parole of Federal prisoners
PL 82-98 (H.R.3455), enacted 07/31/1951

150 
July 31, 1951 
[H. R. 3455) 
amendments. 
02 Stat. 854 
PUBLIC LAW 98—JULY 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Public Law 98 
CHAPTER 277 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4202 of title 18, United States Code, relating to parole of 
Federal prisoners. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Revresentatives 
of the 
SdmenYs ^ ^'"*^' ^^*?^^ States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4202 
of title 18 of the United States Code is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"§4202. 
Prisoners eligible 
"A Federal prisoner, other than a juvenile delinquent or a com-
mitted youth offender, wherever confined and serving a definite term 
or terms of over one hundred and eighty days, whose record shows that 
he has observed the rules of the institution in which he is confined, 
may be released on parole after serving one-third of such term or 
terms or after serving fifteen years of a life sentence or of a sentence 
of over forty-five years." 
Approved July 31, 1951. 
Public Lav^ 99 
CHAPTER 282 
August 1, 1951 
[S. 263] 
AN ACT 
To amend section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the apprehension-
and detention of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for 
their temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, and 
for other purposes", approved April 27, 1904, as amended. 
District of Colum-
bia. 
Insane persons, 
commitment, etc. 
33 Stat. 318. 
Validity 
cate. 
of certifl-
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the apprehension and detention 
of insane persons in the District of Columbia, and providing for their 
temporary commitment in the Government Hospital for the Insane, 
and for other purposes", approved April 27, 1904, as amended (sec. 
21-330, D. C. CodCj 1940 edition), is hereby atnended to read: 
"That for the purpose of this Act no certificate as to the sanity or 
the insanity of any person shall be valid which has been issued (a) 
by a physician who has not been regularly licensed to practice medicine 
in the District of Columbia, unless he be a commissioned surgeon of 
the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Public Health Service, 
or a physician employed by the Veterans' Administration; or (b) by a 
physician who is related by blood or by marriage to the person whose 
mental condition is in question. No certificate alleging the insanity 
of any person shall be valid, which has been issued by a physician who 
is financially interested in the hospital or asylum in which the alleged 
insane person is to be confined; nor, except in the case of physicians 
employed by the United States or the District of Columbia, shall any 
such certificate be valid which has been issued by a physician who is 
professionally or officially connected with such hospital or asylum." 
Approved August 1, 1951. 
August 1, 1951 
[S. 673] 
Public Law 100 
CHAPTER 2 8 3 
AN ACT 
To permit the exchange of land belonging to the District of Columbia for land 
belonging to the abutting property owner or owners, and for other purposes. 
^_District o
f coium- 
^Q {f enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Exchange o
f land. 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That where two lots