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PUBLIC LAW 89-684-OCT. 15, 1966

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any legal action necessary to collect such claim. I n such an action, the defendant shall be required to pay the costs and such reasonable attorney's fees as may be allowed by the court. ' (c) The Commissioners are authorized to supervise the payment of the unpaid wages owing to any employee under this Act or.any order or regulation issued thereunder, and the agreement of any employee to accept such payment shall upon payment in full constitute a waiver by such employee of any right he may have under subsection (a) of this section to such unpaid wages and an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. ((STATUTE

OF LIMrTATIONS

"SEC. 16. Any action commenced on or after the effective date of the District of Columbia Minimum Wage Amendments Act of 1966 to enforce any cause of action for unpaid wages or liquidated damages under this Act or any order or regulation issued thereunder may be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued, and every such action shall be forever barred unless commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued. ((RIGHT

OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

"SEC. 17. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to interfere with, impede, or in any way diminish the right of employees to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing in order to establish wages or other conditions of work in excess of the standards applicable under the provisions of this Act. li

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

"SEC. 18, If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application thereof to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. "SHORT TITLE

"SEC. 19. This Act may be cited as the 'District of Columbia Minimum Wage Act'." AUTHORITY TO D E L E G A T E FUNCTIONS

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SEC. 2. No amendments made by this Act shall be construed so as to affect the authority vested in the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824). The performance of any function vested by this Act or by amendments made by this Act in the Board of Commissioners or in any office or agency under the jurisdiction and control of said Board of Commissioners may be delegated by said Board of Commissioners in accordance with section 3 of such plan, except the function of making and adopting regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act or of any amendment made by this Act. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA HOURS LAW

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SEC. 3. The Act entitled "An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of ColumMa", approved Februar;^ 24, 1914 (D.C. Code, sec. 36-301), is amended by adding the following new section:

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