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PUBLIC LAW 468-JULY 1, 1954

Director of Public Health, $900, to be used for deportation of nonresident insane; Director of Public Welfare, $1,100, to be used for placing and visiting children, returning parolees and wards of the Department of Public Welfare, and deportation of nonresident indigent persons including maintenance pending transportation; Superintendent of Schools, $1,000, which shall be used in connection with the central food services. SEC. 11. 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. 12. 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 payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. SEC. 13. 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 purposes" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia 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. 14. Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department of Highways and the Department of Sanitary Engineering shall be available for snow and ice control work when ordered by the Commissioners in writing. SEC. 15. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate under appropriate current account titles the unexpended balances of such unexpired District of Columbia appropriations of prior years as may be requested by the Commissioners. SEC. 16. The Commissioners are authorized to construct on land owned by the District of Columbia at the District of Columbia Village a storehouse building for educational surplus property at a cost of not to exceed $30,000, to be paid from the permanent revolving fund created by the Act of August 16, 1950 (64 Stat. 450). SEC. 17. The Commissioners are authorized to establish a working fund without fiscal-year limitation for the purpose of printing, duplicating, and photographing; and the unexpended balances in the miscellaneous trust fund accounts Operating Account, Printing" and "Operating Account, Blueprinting" shall be deposited to said working fund; and the fund shall be reimbursed for all services performed thereunder.

Restrictions.

Electric s t r e e t lighting.

P a s s e n g e r vehicles.

60 Stat. 810.

Restriction.

Snow removal.

Unexpended balances.

Educational surp l u s property storehouse.

D. C. Code 3 1 1302. Printing, photographing, e t c.

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