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PUBLIC LAW 453-JULY 5, 1952

SEC. 11. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to officials upon requisitions previously approved by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, not to exceed at any one time sums of money as follows: Director of Weights, Measures, and Markets, $400, to be used exclusively in connection with investigation of short weights and measures; Librarian of the Public Library, $60 at the first of each month, for the purchase of certain books, pamphlets, periodicals^ newspapers, or other printed materials; Superintendent of recreation, $4,000, to be used for the expense of conducting activities of the Recreation Board under the trust fund created by the Act of April 29, 1942 (56 Stat. 261); Superintendent of Police, $5,000, to be used in the prevention and detection of crime; Chief probation officer of the juvenile court, $50, upon requisition previously approved by the judge of the juvenile court, to be expended for travel expenses to secure the return of absconding probationers; Director, Department of Corrections, $750, to be used only in returning escaped prisoners, conditional releasees, parolees, and for the payment of cash gratuities to prisoners on release; Director of Public Welfare, $2,000, to be used for placing and visiting children, returning parolees and wards of the Board of Public Welfare, and deportation of nonresident insane and indigent persons including maintenance pending transportation; Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection with the central food services. SEC. 12. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for or in connection with the preparation, issuance, publication, or enforcement of any regulation or order of the Public Utilities Commission requiring the installation of meters in taxicabs, or for or in connection with the licensing of any vehicle to be operated as a taxicab except for operation in accordance with such system of uniform zones and rates and regulations applicable thereto as shall have been prescribed by the Public Utilities Commission. SEC. 13. Appropriations in this Act shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and for payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour 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 puroses" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columia 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.

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D,C. Code 8-211.,

Restrictions.

Electric s t r e e t lighting.

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