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ized to be paid in the fiscal year 19-27, and for payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-houi- for current consumed. SEC. 14. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including watercraft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated and utilized in conformity with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 77, 78), and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof, or direct the alteration or interchangeable use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act. "Official purposes" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary, but only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia, SEC. 15. Appropriations contained in this Act for highways, sewers, Division of Sanitation, and the Water Division shall be available for snow removal when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. SEC. 16. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1952". Approved August 3, 1951.

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JOINT RE80LUTI0N To provide housinji x-elief in the Missourl-Kan.sas-Oklalioinii flood disaster emergency.

August 3, 19.M [H. J. Kes. 303]

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8(b)(2) of the o k'/from'-Vrood" National Housing Act, as amended, is hereby amended (1) by insert- disaster. ing after the word "construction" in both places where it appears 1 u!^s.*c'. § ITOGO. 2 therein the words "or reconstruction" and (2) by striking out the words '"And provided further'^ in the last proviso thereof and inserting in lieu thereof the words ^Provided further and by inserting at the end of said last proviso a colon and the following: ^And provided further, That, where the mortgagor is the owner and occupant of the property and establishes (to the satisfaction of the Commissioner) that his home, which he occupied as an owner or as a tenant, was destroyed or darr^aged to such an extent that reconstruction is required as a result of a flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm or other catastrophe, which the President pursuant to section 2(a) of the Act entitled 'An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for other purposes' (Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, approved September 30, 1950), has deter- wstat. 1109. mined to be a major disaster, such maximum dollar limitations may be increased by the Commissioner from $4,750 to $7,000, and from $5,600 to $8,000, respectively, and the percentage limitation may be increased by the Commissioner from 95 per centum to 100 per centum of the appraised value". SEC. 2. Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize Federal assistance to States and local governments in major disasters, and for other purposes" (Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress, approved September 30, 1950), is amended by inserting in clause (d) of the first sentence thereof after the words "in such major disaster" the following: "providing temporary housing or other emergency shelter for

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