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professional capacity by a certified public accountant or firm of certified public accountants engaged in the practice of his or their profession". (b) Paragraph (v) of subsection (e) of section 402 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(v)(1) Rates and charges by any common carrier or other public utility, including rates charged by any person subject to the Shipping Act, 1916 (Public Law 260, Sixty-fourth Congress), as amended, and including compensation for the use by others of a common carrier's cars or other transportation equipment, charges for the use of washroom and toilet facilities in terminals and stations, and charges for repairing cars or other transportation equipment owned by others; charges for the use of parking facilities operated by common carriers in connection with their common carrier operations; and (2) charges paid by common carriers for the performance of a part of their transportation services to the public, including the use of cars or other transportation equipment owned by a person other than a common carrier, protective service against heat or cold to property transported or to be transported, and pickup and delivery and local transfer services: Provided, That no common carrier or other public utility shall at any time after the President shall have issued any stabilization regulations and orders under subsection (b) make any increase in its charges for property or services sold by it for resale to the public, for which application is filed after the date of issuance of such stabilization regulations and orders, before the Federal, State, or municipal authority, if any, having jurisdiction to consider such increase, unless it first gives thirty days' notice to the President, or such agency as he may designate, and consents to timely intervention by such agency before the Federal, State, or municipal authority, if any, having jurisdiction to consider such increase: And provided further, That the Office of Price Stabilization shall not intervene in any case involving increases in rates or charges proposed by any common carrier or other public utility except as provided in the preceding proviso;". (c) Subsection (e) of section 402 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: "(viii) Rates, fees, and charges for materials or services supplied directly by the States, Territories, and possessions of the United States, and their political subdivisions and municipalities, the District of Columbia, and any agency of any of the foregoing. "(ix) Wages, salaries, or other compensation of persons employed in small-business enterprises as defined in this paragraph: Provided, however, That the President may from time to time exclude from this exemption such enterprises on the basis of industries, types of business, occupations, or areas, if their exemption would be unstabilizing with respect to wages, salaries, or other compensation, prices, or manpower, or would otherwise be contrary to the purposes of this Act. A small-business enterprise, for the purpose of this paragraph, is any enterprise in which a total of eight or less persons are employed in all its establishments, branches, units, or affiliates. This paragraph shall become effective thirty days after its enactment. " (x) Prices charged and wages paid by bowling alleys. " (xi) Wages paid for agricultural labor." SEC. 110. The first sentence of section 402(k) of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "No rule, regulation, order, or amendment thereto shall be issued or remain in effect under this title, which shall deny sellers of materials at retail or wholesale their customary percentage margins over costs of the

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Charges by common carrier, etc. 39 Stat. 728. 46 USC 842-

Notice of i n crease. 50 USC app. 2102.

Nonintervention by OPS.

E m p l o y e e s oi' small-business enterprises.

65 Stat. 136. 50 USC app, 2102. Percentage margins.

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