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PUBLIC LAW 7 9 8 - J U L Y 25, 1956

Building. Any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force or the Fire Department of the District of Columbia living outside of the District of Columbia shall have and maintain a telephone at all times in his residence. (b) For the purposes of this Act, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized, in their discretion, to prescribe the area constituting the "Washington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district" so as to include the District of Columbia and the territory within any radius which is greater than twelve miles but not more than twenty miles from the United States Capitol Building. SEC. 2. No member of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia shall, unless on leave of absence, go beyond the confines of the District of Columbia, or be absent from duty without permission. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the right of officers and members of the Fire Department to reside anywhere within the Washington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district. Thirty days shall be the term of total sick leave in any one year without disallowance of pay. Leaves of absence with pay of members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia may be extended in cases of illness or injury incurred in line of duty, upon recommendation of the board of surgeons approved by the Commissioners, for such period exceeding thirty days in any one year as in the judgment of the Commissioners may be necessary. For the purposes of this subsection "any one year" shall mean a year from January 1 to December 31, both dates inclusive. SEC. 3. The following laws or parts of laws are hereby repealed: (1) Section 373 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of Columbia (D. C. Code, sec. 4r-132). (2) The Act entitled "An Act to amend section 483 of title 20 of the Code of the District of Columbia as to residence of members of the Police Department", approved August 9, 1935 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-132). (3) The second paragraph under the heading "FIRE DEPARTMENT" 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 fourteen, and for other purposes", approved March 4, 1913, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 4-409). (4) The Act entitled "An Act to amend section 559 of title 20 of the Code of the District of Columbia as to restriction on residence of members of the fire department", approved August 9, 1935 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-409). Approved July 25, 1956.

Public Law 798

Telephone.

Fire Department. Leave.

"Any one year'

49 Stat. 568.

37 Stat. 960.

49 Stat. 567.

CHAPTER 727

To simplify accounting, facilitate the payment of obligations, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Semite and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the account for each appropriation available for obligation for a definite period of time shall be closed as follows: (1) On June 30 of the second full fiscal year following the fiscal year or years for which the appropriation is available for obligation, the obligated balance shall be transferred to an appropriation account of the agency or subdivision thereof responsible for the liquidation of

juiy 25, 1956 [H. R. 9593]

Government obligations. Accounting procedure. Merged accounts.

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