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PUBLIC LAW 721-AUG. 31, 1954 Public Law 721

.,, IOC. August 31, 1954

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CHAPTER 1139 AN

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To amend the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the lumbfi^*^* of Co- United States of America in Congress assembled, That the District Unemployment of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Act, approved August ''T7'lt"at!"i°oo*. 28, 1935 (49 Stat. 946), as amended (title 46, ch. 3, D. C. Code, 1951 D. 301. c. Code 46- edition), is further amended as follows: Service within a Section 1(b)(2)(B) is amended by adding at the end thereof the State. following: "Service shall be deemed to be localized within a State if— "(i) the service is performed entirely within such State; or "(ii) the service is performed both within and without such State, but the service performed without such State is incidental to the individual'service within the State, for example, is temporary or transitory in nature or consists of isolated transactions." Section 1(b)(4) is amended to read as follows: Service on v e s "(4) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection, the sels. term employment shall also include all service performed after the effective date of this amendment by an officer or member of the crew of an American vessel on or in connection with such vessel, provided that the operating office, from which the operations of such vessel operating on navigable waters within or within and without the United States are ordinarily and regularly supervised, managed, directed, and controlled, is within the District." Section 1(b)(5) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsections: " (Q) service performed on or in connection with a vessel not an American vessel by an individual if he performed service on and in connection with such vessel when outside the United States; " (R) service performed by an individual in (or as an officer or member of the crew of a vesssel while it is engaged in) the catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating, or farming of any kind of fish, shellfish, Crustacea, sponges, seaweeds, or other aquatic forms of animal and vegetable life (including service performed by any such individual as an ordinary incident to any such activity), except (A) service performed in connection with the catching or taking of salmon or halibut, for commercial purposes, and (B) service performed on or in connection with a vessel of more than ten net tons (determined in the manner provided for determining the register tonnage of merchant vessels under the laws of the United States)." Section 1(b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following subsections: Services in em "(7) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of subsection 1(b)(5) ployment. of this Act, services shall be deemed to be in employment if with respect to such services a tax is required to be paid under any Federal law imposing a tax against which credit may be taken for contributions required to be paid into a State unemployment compensation fund. "(8)(i) Any service performed for an employing unit, which is excluded under the definition of employment in section 1(b)(5) and with respect to which no payments are required under the employment security law of another State or of the Federal Government may be ^vineSlit''^ *""" ^^emed to constitute employment for all purposes of this Act: Proploying unit. vided^ That the Board has approved a written election to that effect filed by the employing unit for which the service is performed, as of

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