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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 131, 132-APR. 22, 1940 SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to maintain, upon any original lot or any subdivisional lot, situated on any street in the District of Columbia, where there is a public sewer and water main available for the use of such lot, any system of disposal of human excreta except by means of water closets connected with such sewer and water main. SEC. 3. That no person shall, in the District of Columbia, erect or maintain a privy, or other means or system for the disposal of human excreta, except by means of water closets connected with a sewer and water main, without having secured from the health officer a permit so to do. SEC. 4. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and empowered to make and enforce any such regulations as they deem necessary to regulate the design, construc- tion, and maintenance of any system of disposal of human excreta, and the handling, storage, treatment, and disposal of human body wastes. SEC. 5. That any person who shall violate or aid or abet in violat- ing any of the provisions of this Act or of the regulations promul- gated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia under this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprison- ment for not exceeding fifteen days. Approved, April 22, 1940. [CHAPTER 132] AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to permit the payment of the costs of repairs, resurfacing, improvement, and enlargement of the Arrowrock Dam in twenty annual installments, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the pur- pose of avoiding an unduly high operation and maintenance assess- ment in any one year and tokeep the operation and maintenance charges in connection with the Arrowrock Division of the Boise reclamation project within the ability of the water users to pay, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow the irrigation districts of the said Arrowrock Division and the irrigation districts, ditch companies, and water users who have assumed obligations to pay proportionate parts of the estimated cost of the operation and maintenance of the Arrowrock Reservoir, to pay the costs, as deter- mined conclusively by said Secretary, incurred in the repair, resur- facing, and improvement of the Arrowrock Dam and in increasing the height thereof (to provide additional capacity to offset past and, to some extent, future losses of capacity resulting from the deposit of silt in the said reservoir) in twenty annual installments instead of requiring the payment of all of such operation and maintenance costs in one year as provided in section 5 of the Act of Congress of August 13, 1914 (38 Stat. 686): Provided, That such costs, for the purpose of any amendatory contracts affecting the construction charges of Arrowrock Dam that may be entered into as authorized by the Act of August 4, 1939 (53 Stat. 1187), may, in the discre- tion of the Secretary, be treated as part of the construction charges of said dam, and as payable in the same manner as such charges. Approved, April 22, 1940. 155 Water closets, re- quirements. Privy not to be erected, etc., without permit. Regulations author- ized. Penalty. April 22, 1940 [H. R. 8498] [Public, No. 4756 Arrowrock Dam, etc. Repayment of im- provements in twenty annual installments. 43 U. S.C. §492. Proviso. Treatment, etc., of construction costs. 43 U. S. C., Supp. V, §485-485k.

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