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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 207-APIR. 1, 1942 SEC. 11. (a) Any judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, any judge of The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, as established by this Act, or any judge of the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, may hereafter retire after having served as a judge of such court for a period or periods aggre- gating twenty years or more, whether continuously or not. Any judge who so retires shall receive annually in equal monthly install- ments, during the remainder of his life, a sum equal to such pro- portion of the salary received by such judge at the date of such retirement as the total of his aggregate years of service bears to the period of thirty years, the same to be paid in the same manner as the salary of such judge. In no event shall the sum received by any such judge hereunder be in excess of the salary of such judge at the date of such retirement. In computing the years of service under this section, service in either the Police Court of the District of Columbia or the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, or the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, as heretofore con- stituted, shall be included whether or not such service be continuous. The terms "retire" and "retirement" as used in this section shall mean and include retirement, resignation, or failure of reappointment upon the expiration of the term of office of an incumbent. (b) Any judge receiving retirement salary under the provisions of this Act may be called upon by the chief judge of The Municipal Court for the District of Columbia or the chief judge of The Munici- pal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to perform such judicial duties as may be requested of him in either of said courts, or in the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia, but in any event no such retired judge shall be required to render such service for more than ninety days in any calendar year after such retirement. In case of illness or disability precluding the rendering of such service such retired judge shall be fully relieved of any such duty during such illness or disability. SEC. 12. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circum- stances, shall not be affected thereby; and if any provision hereof becomes inoperative, either by reason of failure of appropriations or otherwise, it shall not affect the legality or operative effect of any or all of the remaining features and provisions hereof. SEc. 13. The appropriations in the 1942 District of Columbia Appropriation Act, approved July 1, 1941, for the Police Court of the District of Columbia and the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia, are hereby continued available for the purposes specified therein, and for the expenditures authorized by this Act. And there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia not otherwise appropriated, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEC. 14. The provisions of this Act authorizing the appointment and salaries of the judges of The Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the clerk, deputy clerks, and other employees of said court, shall take effect one month after approval of this Act. The other provisions of this Act shall take effect three months after the date of its approval. The expression "effective date of this Act", as used in this Act, means three months after the approval of this Act. Approved, April 1, 1942. 197 Retirement provi- sions. Service included. "Retire" and "re- tirement." Recall to service. Separability of pro- visions. Approprlatione available. 55 Stat. 519. Appropriation au- thorized. Post, pp. 441. 442. Effective date of appointment, etc., pro- visions. Other provisions. " Effective date of this Act."

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