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PUBLIC LAW 85-507-JULY 7, 1968

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(c) Any person who willfully removes, alters, or renders illegible any label affixed to a new automobile pursuant to section 3, or any endorsement thereon, prior to the time that such automobile is delivered to the actual custody and possession of the ultimate purchaser of such new automobile, except where the manufacturer relabels the automobile in the event the same is rerouted, repurchased, or reacquired by the manufacturer of such automobile, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Such removal, alteration, or rendering illegible with respect to each automobile shall constitute a separate offense. EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect on the first day of October 1958 or on the first day of the introduction of any new model of automobile in any line of automobile beginning after the date of enactment of this Act, whichever date shall last occur. Approved July 7, 1958. Public Law 85-507 AN ACT To increase efficiency and economy in the Government by providing for training programs for civilian officers and employees of the Government with respect to the performance of official duties.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre>tentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, \ pioyJ^ITr'ai^M Act. SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the "Government Employees Training Act". SECTION

DECLARATION OF POLICY

SEC. 2. I t is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress— (1) that, in order to promote efficiency and economy in the operation of the Government and provide means for the development of maximum proficiency in the performance of official duties by employees thereof, to establish and maintain the highest standards of performance in the transaction of the public business, and to install and utilize effectively the best modern practices and techniques which have been developed, tested, and proved within or outside of the Government, it is necessary and desirable in the public interest that self-education, self-improvement, and self-training by such employees be supplemented and extended by Government-sponsored programs, provided for by this Act, for the training of such employees in the performance of official duties and for the development of skills, knowledge, and abilities which will best qualify them for performance of official duties; (2) that such programs shall be continuous in nature, shall be subject to supervision and control by the President and review by the Congress, and shall be so establislied as to ba readily expansible in time of national emergency; (3) that such programs shall be designed to lead to (A) improved public service, (B) dollar savings, (C) the building and retention of a permanent cadre of skilled and efficient

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