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Forty hour workweek, determination.

Overtime work.

Payment.

78 Stat. 880. D. C. Code 4-823.

Compensatory time, availability.

PUBLIC LAW 89-282-OCT. 21, 1965

[79 STAT.

"(10) 'Court duty' means attendance by an ojfficer or member in his official capacity, excluding his appearance as a defendant, at court or at a quasi-judicial hearing. "(11) 'Special event' or 'special assignment' means a n j planned activity or function which the authorizing official designates in advance as such. " (b) The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the Secretary of the Interior, or the Secretary of the Treasury, as the case may be, is authorized and directed to establish a basic workweek of forty hours to be scheduled on five days foi* the respective police forces referred to in this Act: Provided, That rollcall time shall be without compensation or credit to the time of the basic workweek. "(c) All officially ordered or approved hours of work (except rollcall time) performed by officers and members in excess of the basic workweek in any administrative workweek, shall be considered as overtime work and shall be compensated for as provided by this Act. " (d)(1) Whenever the authorizing official designates in advance an activity or function as a special event, or special assignment, all overtime work in connection with such special event, or special assignment, shall be compensated for by payment as follows: "(i) For each officer or member who receives compensation at a rate provided for in class 1 through class 4, in the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, the overtime work shall be compensated for by payment at one and one-half times the basic hourly rate of such officer or member and all such compensation shall be considered premium pay. "(ii) For each officer or member who receives compensation at a rate provided for classes 5 and above, in the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, as amended, the overtime work shall be compensated for by payment at the basic hourly rate of such officer or member's basic compensation (except as otherwise limited by subsection (h)(1) and (2) of this section) and all such compensation shall be considered premium pay. "(2) An officer or memiber may elect to receive compensatory time off as provided in subsection (f) of this section in lieu of payment for overtime work as provided in this subsection. "(e) Each officer or member who on any off-duty time performs court duty (excluding the first appearance in court on each case), or who performs work, as ordered or approved, on any off-duty day shall be compensated in accordance with subsection (d) of this section, "(f) Overtime work, other than that for which compensation by payment or time off is provided by subsections (d) and (e) of this section, shall be compensated for by compensatory time off at a rate of one hour of compensatory time for each hour of overtime work performed. Such compensatory time off shall be granted in accordance with the following provisions: "(1) The authorizing official, or such person as he may designate to act in his place, may, at the request of any officer or member, grant such officer or member compensatory time off from his scheduled tour of duty in lieu of payment for an equal amount of time spent for overtime work, including the first appearance for court duty in each case, if to grant such leave would not unreasonably diminish the number of officers or members available to maintain law, order, and public safety. "(2) Any officer or member who is eligible for compensatory time off and has made application for such compensatory time off, which application was denied, may within thirty days of such denial make application for compensatory pay at his basic hourly rate of basic

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