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PUBLIC LAW 468-JULY 1, 1954

[68 S T A T,

markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure; purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; $1,378,000. DEPARTMENT OF H I G H W A Y S

Department of Highways, including operation, minor construction, maintenance, and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, sidewalks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; purchase, installation, modification, operation of electric traffic lights, signals, controls, markers, signs, and directional signs; installation and maintenance of parking meters; operation and maintenance of the District's communication systems, including rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, and radio services; street lighting, including the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 D^c.^code 7-701 Stat. 1008), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia to 7-705. Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat, 181), and other laws applicable thereto; purchase, propagation, maintenance and planting of trees and shrubs, and maintenance of landscaping of public space along streets; refunding collections erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the highway fund during the present and past three fiscal years; such expenses to include purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $5,768,600, of which $3,761,612 shall be payable from the highway fund: Provided, That the Commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to be paid for from this appropriation at a cost not to exceed $150,000: Provided further, That this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized 43 stau 108. by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924. D. C. Code 4 7 1910.

DEPARTMENT OF V E H I C L E S A N D TRAFFIC

Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), including purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic signals and controls; purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates; $25,000 for traffic safety education without reference to any other law; $200 for membership in the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; purchase of not to exceed two passenger motor vehicles; expenses of the Motor-Vehicle Parking Agency; and uniforms for motor vehicle inspectors and permit examiners; $1,238,365, of which $235,406 Shall be payable from the motor-vehicle parking fund and $9,000 payable from the general fund: Provided., That no part of this or any other appropriation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, installing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic and the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same at its expense: Provided further, That the Commissioners are authorized and empowered to pay the purchase price and the cost of installation of new parking meters or devices from fees collected from such new meters or devices, which fees are hereby appropriated for such purpose: Provided further., That the Commissioners are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly

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