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PUBLIC LAW 85-61-JUNE 27, 1957

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repairs to markets; purchase of commodities and for personal services in connection with investigation and detection of sales of short weight and measure; and to obtain evidence necessary for prosecution in connection with the business of pawnbrokers, mediums, secondhand dealers, and other businesses requiring a license; $1,862,000. DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS

Department of Highways, including minor construction of bridges; rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of radio services; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $7,050,000, of which $4,354,773 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. DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC

Department of Vehicles and Traffic (payable from highway fund), including expenses of attendance of one person, without loss of pay or time, at specialized traffic engineering classes, including tuition and entrance fees; $26,500 for traffic safety education without reference to any other law; $200 for membership in the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators; refunding collections erroneously covered into the Treasury to the credit of the highway fund during the present and past three fiscal years; $l,438j000: 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 this appropriation shall not be available for refunds authorized by section 10 of the Act of April 23, 1924.

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MOTOR VEHICLE PARKING AGENCY

Motor Vehicle Parking Agency (payable from motor vehicle parking fund), including installation and maintenance of parking meters, $519,000. DEPARTMENT OF SANITARY ENGINEERING

Department of Sanitary Engineering, including installing and repairing water meters on services to private residences and business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations (said meters to remain the property of the District of Columbia), purchase of passenger motor vehicles, purchase of radio equipment when approved by the Director of Highways, refunding of water rents and other water and sewer service charges erroneously paid in the District of Columbia (to be refunded in the manner prescribed by law for the refunding of erroneously paid taxes and to be available for such refunds of payments, made within the present and past three fiscal years), contribution of the District of Columbia to the expenses of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, repair and

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