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PUBLIC LAW 86-584-AUG. 1, 1968

(b) I n initially adjusting salaries, each officer and member entitled under this Act to be placed in a Class above Class 1 and whose latest promotion has been subsequent to June 30, 1953, and prior to the effective date of this Act, shall be placed in the step of his Class which provides a salary not less than the amount he would have received under the provisions of this Act had he not been so promoted until the effective date of this Act. SEC. 202. I n initially adjusting salaries, the following positions shall be included as Technician I in Sub-Class (b) of Class 1 of the schedule in section 101, title I: (a) Chief Photographer, Fire Department; (b) Kegular first driver-operator or tillerman of a Fire Department hose wagon, pumper, aerial ladder truck, rescue squad, or fire department ambulance. SEC. 203. I n initially adjusting salaries, the following positions shall be included as Technician II in Sub-Class (c) of Class 1 of the schedule in section 101, title I: (a) Chief Kadio Technician for the Fire Department; (b) Aide to the Fire Chief, Deputy Chief, Battalion Fire Chief, Fire Marshal, or Superintendent of Miichinery. TITLE

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Technician I.

Technician II.

III — M E T H O D O F APPOINTMENT, ADVANCEMENT, PROMOTION AND DEMOTION

SEC. 301. All original appointments of Police and Fire Privates shall be made at the minimum rate set forth in the schedule in section 101, title I of this Act, and the first year of service shall be probationary. SEC. 302. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in the case of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Treasury, in the case of the White House Police force, and the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of the United States Park Police force, are hereby authorized to establish and determine, from time to time, the positions to be included as Technicians in Classes 1 and 2 in section 101, title I, with the exception of those positions included as Technician I and Technician II in sections 202 and 203 of title II. SEC. 303. (a) Subsequent to the initial salary adjustment provided in title II, each officer and member, except an officer or member in service step 1, or 2, or 3, Class 1, who has not attained the maximum service step rate of compensation for the rank or title in which he is placed shall be advanced in compensation successively to the neyt higher service step rate for such rank or title at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of one hundred and four calendar weeks of active service, if he has a current performance rating of "satisfactory" or better. (b) Satisfactory service (other than that credited in the initial adjustment of salaries under this Act), rendered immediately prior to the effective date of this Act by any officer or member who, in the initial adjustment of salaries, is placed in service step 4 or 5, Class 1, or service step 1, or 2, or 3, Classes 2 through 9, shall be credited as follows: each five calendar days of such service shall be credited as the equivalent of two calendar days of service for the purpose of computing the first period of one hundred and four calendar weeks of active service required by this section to entitle such officer or member to an advance in compensation to the next higher service rate for his rank or title.

P o l i c e and Fire Privates.

Technicians.

C o n d 11 ions for promotion.

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