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on an application made for such registration. Any such temporary registration shall be valid for a period not in excess of thirty days. 5. The commission shall have power to reprimand any longshoreman registered under this article or to remove him from the longshoremen's register for such period of time as it deems in the public interest for any of the following offenses: (a) Conviction of a crime or other cause which would permit disqualification of such person from inclusion in the longshoremen's register upon original application; (b) Fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in securing inclusion in the longshoremen's register; (c) Transfer or surrender of possession to any person either temporarily or permanently of any card or other means of identification issued by the commission as evidence of inclusion in the longshoremen's register, without satisfactory explanation; (d) False impersonation of another longshoreman registered under this article or of another person licensed under this compact; (e) Wilful commission of or wilful attempt to commit at or on a water-front terminal or adjacent highway any act of physical injury to any other person or of wilful damage to or misappropriation of any other person's property, unless justified or excused by law; and (f) Any other offense described in subdivisions (c) to (f) inclusive of section 1 of Article V. 6. The commission shall have the right to recover possession of any card or other means of identification issued as evidence of inclusion in the longshoremen's register in the event that the holder thereof has been removed from the longshoremen's register. 7. Nothing contained in this article shall be construed to limit in any way any rights of labor reserved by Article X V. ARTICLE REGULARIZATION

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1. On or after the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, the commission shall, at regular intervals, remove from the longshoremen's register any person who shall have been registered for at least nine months and who shall have failed during the preceding six calendar months either to have worked as a longshoreman in the Port of New York district or to have applied for employment as a longshoreman at an employment information center established under article X II for such minimum number of days as shall have been established by the commission pursuant to section two of this article. 2. On or before the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-four, and on or before each succeeding first day of June or December, the commission shall, for the purposes of section one of this article, establish for the six-month period beginning on each such date a minimum number of days and the distribution of such days during such period. 3. I n establishing any such minimum number of days or period, the commission shall observe the following standards: (a) To encourage as far as practicable the regulation of the employment of longshoremen; (b) To bring the number of eligible longshoremen more closely into balance with the demand for longshoremen'services within the P o r t of New York district without reducing the number of eligible longshoremen below that necessary to meet the requirements of longshoremen in the Port of New York district;

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