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 81ST CONG., 18 T SESS.-CH. 686 -0CT. 13, 1949 credited on July 1, 1949, with one day of leave with pay for each complete year of service in the public schools of the District of Columbia prior to July 1, 1949: Provided,That the total amount to be credited under the provisions of this section shall not exceed twenty days and shall be granted for the same purposes as leave with pay is provided in the first section of this Act. Attendance officers shall be credited on July 1, 1949, with all cumulative leave with pay to which they are entitled on June 30, 1949, under the provisions of section 18 of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. The total cumulation of leave with pay allowable under this Act and the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947 shall not exceed sixty days, and no attendance officer shall be entitled to annual or sick leave with pay under the provisions of any other Act. SEC. 3. Probationary and permanent teachers and attendance officers shall be entitled to use all leave to their credit when they are granted maternity leave by the Board of Education. SEC. 4. In cases of serious disability or ailments, and when required by the exigencies of the situation, and in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Board of Education may prescribe, the superin- tendent of schools may advance additional leave with pay not to exceed twenty days to every probationary or permanent teacher or attendance officer who may apply for such advanced leave. SEC. 5. In the event of separation from the service of any teacher or attendance officer who is indebted for unearned advanced leave, such teacher or attendance officer shall refund the amount of pay received for the period of such excess. If such teacher or attendance officer fails to make such refund, deductions therefor shall be made from any salary due him or from any amount standing to his credit under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public school teachers in the District of Columbia", approved August 7, 1946. The provisions of this section shall not apply in cases of death, retirement for disability, or in the event that the teacher or attendance officer to whom leave with pay has been advanced is unable to return to duty because of disability. SEC. 6. The Board of Education is hereby authorized to employ substitute teachers and attendance officers for service during the absence of any teacher or attendance officer on leave with pay and to fix the rate of compensation to be paid such substitutes. SEC. 7. The Board of Education is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry this Act into effect. The term "teacher" used in this Act shall include all employees whose salaries are fixed by article I of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. The term "attendance officers" shall include all employees whose salaries are fixed by class 32 in article II of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947. SEC. 8. There is 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 sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, and any appropriations for the public schools of the District of Columbia for personal services are hereby made available for the payment of the substitutes provided for in section 6 of this Act. SEC. 9. The following parts of Acts are hereby repealed: (a) So much of section 14 of the Act entitled "An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved July 7, 1947, as reads: "The said Board shall prescribe the amount to be deducted from the salary of any absent teacher for whom an annual substitute may perform service. '; Limitations. Attendance officers. 61 Stat. 259. 61 Stat. 248. Maternity leave. Advance leave with Pay. Refund for un- earned advanced leave. 60 Stat. 875. D. C . Code, Supp. VII, |{ 31-721 to 31- 739. Substitute teachers, etc. Rules and regul- tlons. "Teacher." 61 Stat. 249. "Attendance officera." 61 Stat. 252. Appropriation au- thorized. Repeals. 61 Stat. 2BB. 843 63 STAT.]

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