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PUBLIC LAW 106—AUG. 3, 1951

Vehicle Parking Facility Act of 1942, approved February 16, 1942 (56 Stat. 90), including personal services (except a director); and uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors; $1,250,000: Provided, That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and TraflSc and the streetrailvray company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its expense: Provided further, That the Commissioners are authorized and empowered to pay the purchase price and the cost of installation of new parking meters or devices from fees collected from such new meters or devices, which fees are hereby appropriated for such purpose, until such time as contracts of purchase have been paid, and thereafter such new meters or devices shall become the property of the government of the District of Columbia: Provided further, That the Commissioners are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in the District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business: Provided further, That the incumbent on July 1, 1944, of the authorized position of Registrar of Titles and Tags, whose duties shall be as prescribed in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, shall hereafter be continued for compensation purposes in grade 9 of the general schedule under the Classification Act of 1949. Division of Trees and Parking (payable from highway fund); $297,700. Operating expenses, Division of Sanitation: For expenses necessary for collection and disposal of refuse and street cleaning, including repair and maintenance of plants, buildings, and grounds; and fencing of public and private property designated by the Commissioners as public dumps; $4,155,500, of which $80,000 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for collecting ashes or miscellaneous refuse from hotels and places of business or from apartment houses of four or more apartments having a central heating system, or from any building or connected group of buildings operated as a rooming, boarding, or lodging house having a total of more than twenty-five rooms. Operating expenses. Sewer Division, including cleaning and repairing sewers and basins; operation and maintenance oi the sewage pumping service and sewage-treatment plant, including repairs to equipment, machinery, and structures; control and prevention of the spread of mosquitoes in the District of Columbia; and for contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin; $1,446,000. Capital outlay. Sewer Division: For construction of sewers and receiving basins; for assessment and permit work; for purchase or condemnation of rights-of-wav for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers; for the preparation of surveys, plans, and specifications in connection with the construction of storm-water and relief sewers, including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a), $16,000; and for continuing construction on sludge drying and sewage chlorination facilities at the Sewage Treatment Plant, $1,780,000, to remain available until expended; in all, $4,603,000, of which $2,823,000 is to remain available until June 30, 1953; and the limit of cost contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951, for construction of sludge

D. C. Code §40-801. Streetcar loading platforms.

Fees from parking meters.

Parking spaces for Members of Congress,

Registrar of Titlefi and Tags.

58 Stat. 527. D.C. Code §40-603a, 63 Stat. 954. 5 U.S.C. § 1071 note.

Collection of refuse from hotels, etc.

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

60 Stat. 810.

64 Stat. 365.

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