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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 76-FEB. 16, 1942 Rules and regula- tions. No discrimination. Parking meters or devices. D. C. Code 40-616. Motor-vehicle park- ing agency. Designation of members, etc. Change of desig. nates. Delegation of pow- ers. for use of space in each such parking facility; to provide rate differ- entials between said parking facilities for such reasons as the amount of space occupied, the location of the facility, and other reasonable differences; and to prescribe and promulgate such rules and regula- tions for the carrying out of the provisions of this Act as may be necessary to keep said parking facilities subject at all times to public regulation, and to insure the maintenance and operation of such parking facilities in a clean and orderly manner and in such a manner as to provide efficient and adequate service to the public. The rates to be charged for parking of motor vehicles within said parking facilities shall be fixed at the lowest possible rates, consistent with the achievement of the purposes of this Act, that will defray the cost of maintaining, operating, and administering the parking facilities; liquidate within such time as the Commissioners shall determine the cost of acquiring and improving the required property for parking- facility purposes; and provide for the acquisition and improvement of other necessary parking facilities, but without any purpose of obtain- ing for the District any profit or surplus revenue from the operation of said parking facilities. There shall be no discrimination in rates or privileges among the members of the public using said parking facilities. (e) The power to secure and install mechanical parking meters or parking devices on the streets, avenues, roads, highways, and other public spaces in the District under the jurisdiction and control of the said Commissioners, in addition to those mechanical parking meters and devices installed pursuant to the authority conferred on the said Commissioners by section 11, of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act 1939, approved April 4, 1938 (52 Stat. 192), such meters or devices to be located at such points as the Commissioners may determine, and the said Commissioners are authorized and empowered to make and enforce rules and regulations for the con- trol of parking of vehicles on such streets, avenues, roads, highways, and other public spaces, and as an aid to such regulation and control of the parking of vehicles the Commissioners may prescribe fees for the parking of vehicles where meters or devices are installed. SEC. 4. There is hereby created a motor-vehicle parking agency consisting of seven members, namely, a representative of the Federal Works Agency, to be designated by the Administrator thereof; a representative of the National Park Service, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior; a representative of the Department of Vehicles and Traffic of the District, to be designated by the Com- missioners, and four other members, each of whom shall have been a bona fide resident of the District for at least three years immediately preceding his appointment, to be appointed by the Commissioners, without regard to race or creed. The Secretary of the Interior the Federal Works Administrator, and the Commissioners may from time to time, in their discretion, change their respective designates in office, and they shall name new designates to fill any vacancies caused by the death, resignation, or other inability to serve, of their respective designates in office. The terms of the other four members of the agency shall be four years each, except that in the case of the initial appointments, one shall be for a term of one year, one for a term of two years, and one for a term of three years. In the case of any vacancy in the position of the members appointed for definite terms the same shall be filled for the remainder of the term. The said agency shall perform the duties imposed upon it by this Act and such other duties as the Commissioners may assign to it. The Commissioners are authorized to delegate to the agency any or all 92 [56 STAT.

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