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 246 Restriction.

60 Stat, 839. 2 USC 261 note.

Restriction.

Short title.

PUBLIC LAW 88-137-OCT. 11, 1963

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SEC. 904. None of the funds contained in this Act for "Juvenile delinquency and youth offenses" shall be paid, for the purpose of conducting or assisting in conducting a research or demonstration project, to any person or organization registered with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate under the Regulation of Lobbying Act. SEC. 905. The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, are each authorized to make av^ailable not to exceed $5,000 from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I and II, respectively, for official reception and representation expenses, not otherwise provided for. SEC. 906. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to conduct or assist in conducting any program (including but not limited to the payment of salaries, admmistrative expenses, and the conduct of research activities) related directly or indirectly to the establishment of a national service corps or similar domestic peace corps type of program. This Act may be cited as the "Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1964". Approved October 11, 1963. Public Law 88-137

October 11, 1963 [H. R. 2485]

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Prevention and control of communicable diseases.

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases", approved August 11, 1939, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to make regulations to prevent and control the spread of communicable and preventable diseases", approved August 11, 1939 (53 Stat. 1408), as amended (sec. 6-119 et seq., D.C. Code, 1961 ed.), is amended by renumbering section 13 as section 14 and by inserting the following new section immediately following section 12: " I M M E D I A T E TREATMENT OF MINOR W I T H VENEREAL DISEASE

"SEC. 13. If a minor appears in any clinic, hospital, or other facility of the Department of Public Health of the government of the District of Columbia, and the Director of Public Health or his authorized agent, after having caused a medical examination to be made of such minor, has probable cause to believe that such minor is affected with a venereal disease or is a carrier of a venereal disease, and if, as a result of such examination, the Director of Public Health or his authorized agent determines that immediate medical treatment of the minor will adequately control the disease of the minor so as to protect his health and the health of others without having said minor detained as provided in this Act, the Director of Public Health or his authorized agent shall present to such minor a paper, upon which such minor shall state either (1) that he consents to such treatment, in which event such treatment shall be given to the minor forthwith, or (2) that he refuses to censent to such treatment, in which event no such treatment shall be given to him pursuant to this section. The Director of Public Health or his authorized agent shall exercise reasonable diligence in ascertaining the whereabouts of a parent, or

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