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PUBLIC LAW 7 4 - J U N E 20, 1953

increase in salary) pursuant to subsection (b) of section 201 of this Act. The annual basic salary of the Fire Chief shall be increased by $200 at the beginning of the next pay period following each eighteenmonth period of continuous service completed in such grade including service in such grade rendered prior to the effective date of this Act. An increase in basic salary under this subsection shall be known as a "longevity increase". (b) Any officer or member who is promoted to a position in a higher grade in the foregoing salary table who is receiving one or more longevity increases under subsection (a) of this section, and whose basic salary, as increased by such longevity increases, exceeds the scheduled rate for such higher grade, shall, upon promotion, be entitled to the basic salary of such higher grade plus so many equivalent longevity increases as may be necessary to make his salary in such higher grade at least equal the salary he received before promotion, including longevity increases. (c) Whenever any officer or member is demoted from any grade to a lower grade and such officer or member prior to such demotion was receiving one or more longevity increases, the Commissioners, in their discretion, may in demoting such officer or member fix his annual basic salary so as to exclude all such earned longevity increases or to include one or more of such earned longevity increases. (d) The Fire Chief shall receive no more than four longevity increases and no other officer or member shall receive more than five longevity increases with respect to service rendered in any one grade. (e) No officer or membe? shall be entitled to a longevity increase for a five-year period of service unless he has maintained a rating of satisfactory or better for such period.

Promotions.

Demotions.

L o n g e v i t y inr creases.

Rating requirement.

TITLE III—AUTOMATIC EQUALIZATION OF PENSIONS SEC. 301. Notwithstanding section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police Force and Fire Department of the District of Columbia", approved Julv 1, 1930 (46 Stat. 841, ch. 783, D. C. Code, 1951 edition, sec. 4-505), each individual heretofore or hereafter retired from active service and entitled to receive a pension relief allowance or retirement compensation under the provisions of section 12 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes", approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 676), as amended, shall be entitled to receive, without making application therefor, with respect to each increase in salary granted by this Act, or hereafter granted by law to which such individual would be entitled if he were in active service, an increase in his pension relief allowance or retirement compensation. Such increase shall be in an amount which bears the same ratio to such increase in salary as the amount of each such individual's pension relief allowance or retirement compensation in effect on the day next preceding such salary increase bore to the salary to which he would have been entitled had he been in active service on the day next preceding such salary increase. Each increase in pension relief allowance or retirement compensation under this title resulting from an increase in salary shall take effect as of the first day of the first month following the effective date of such increase in salary. SEC. 302. I n computing the pension relief allowance or retirement compensation of any such individual retired before the effective date of this Act as Major and Superintendent of Police, Assistant

Pension r e l i e f allowance o r retirement c o m p ensation. bicrease.

39 Stat. 718. D. C. Code 4-113 to 4-597, passim.

Effective date.

Certain r e t i r e d officers.

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