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Promotion. Rate of covnpeor sation.

Demotion. Rate of condensation.

PUBLIC LAW 85-684-AUQ. 1, 1968

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(c) Each officer and member serving in steps 1, 2, or 3 of SubClasses (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of Class 1 shall be advanced in compensation successively to the next higher service step rate for his current Sub-Class at the beginning of the first pay period immediately subsequent to the completion of fifty-two calendar weeks of active service in his class if he has a current performance rating of "satisfactory" or better. (d) 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 in the rank of Private, Class 1, or Private, Class 2, or Private, Class 3, shall be credited in computing the first period of fifty-two calendar weeks required under the provisions of this section for advancement from service steps 1, or 2, or 3, of Class 1. SEC. 304. Any officer or member who is promoted or transferred to a higher class shall receive basic compensation at the lowest rate of such higher class which exceeds his existing rate of compensation by not less than one step increase of the class from which he is promoted or transferred. If the existing rate of compensation of an officer or member is above the maximum longevity step increase in the class from which he is promoted or transferred and there is no rate in the higher class to which he is promoted or transferred, which is at least one step increase above his existing rate, such officer or member shall receive the maximum longevity rate of such higher class or his existing rate, whichever is greater. Any officer or member in any class who is assigned or transferred to any Sub-Class within the same Class shall be placed in the same service or longevity step in such Sub-Class as that which he was in immediately prior to being so assigned or transferred. SEC. 305. Whenever any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the White House Police force, or the United States Park Police force is changed or demoted from any class to a lower class, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of the Interior, as the case may be, may, in their or his discretion, in changing or demoting such officer or member, fix his rate of compensation at any rate provided for the Class or Sub-Class to which he is changed or demoted which does not exceed his existing rate of compensation, except that if his existing rate falls between two step rates provided in such lower class, he may receive the higher of such rates. TITLE IV—LONGEVITY

C o n d i t ions for step i n c r e a s e s.

SEC. 401. (a) I n recognition of long and faithful service, each officer and member shall receive an additional step increase (to be known as a longevity step increase) beyond the maximum scheduled service step rate for the Sub-Class in which he is serving, or for the Class in which he is serving if there are no Sub-Classes in his Class for each 208 calendar weeks of continuous service completed by him following the effective date of this Act at such maximum rate or at a rate in excess thereof, without change to a higher Class, subject to all of the following conditions: (1) No officer or member shall receive more than one longevity step increase for any two hundred and eight calendar weeks of continuous service, and in order to be eligible therefor he shall have a current performance rating of "satisfactory" or better. (2) Not more than three successive longevity step increases may be granted to any officer or member; nor shall any officer or member be

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