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PUBLIC LAW 90-226-DEC. 27, 1967

[81 STAT.

criminal offense within the District of Columbia, or a false or fictitious report of any other matter or occurrence of which such Metropolitan Police force is required to receive reports, or in connection with which such Metropolitan Police force is required to conduct an investigation, knowing such report to be false or fictitious; or who shall communicate or cause to be communicated to such Metropolitan Police force, or any officer or member thereof, any false information concerning the commission of any criminal offense within the District of Columbia or concerning any other matter or occurrence of which such Metropolitan Police force is required to receive reports, or in connection with which such Metropolitan Police force is required to conduct an investigation, knowing such information to be false, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding $300 or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. TITLE VII Citations. 47 Stat. 1485.

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D.C. Code 23 901.

D.C. Code 23 903.

gj,(.^ 701. Section 10 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (D.C. Code, sec. 23-610), is amended by inserting " (a) " immediately after "SEC. 10.", and by adding the following new subsections: "(b) An officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force who, in accordance with section 397 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia, arrests without a warrant a person for committing a misdemeanor may, instead of taking him into custody, issue a citation requiring such person to appear before an official of the Metropolitan Police force designated under subsection (a) of this section to act as a clerk of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions. "(c) Whenever a person is arrested without a warrant for committing a misdemeanor and is booked and processed pursuant to law, an official of the Metropolitan Police force designated under subsection (a) of this section to act as a clerk of the District of Columbia Court of General Sessions may issue a citation to him for an appearance in court or at some other designated place, and release him from custody. " (d) No citation may be issued under subsection (b) or (c) of this section unless the person authorized to issue the citation has reason to believe that the arrested person will not cause injury to persons or damage to property and that he will make an appearance in answer to the citation. "(e) Whoever willfully fails to appear as required in a citation, shall be fined not more than the maximum provided for the misdemeanor for which such citation was issued or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Prosecution under this subsection shall be by the prosecuting officer responsible for prosecuting the offense for which the citation is issued." SEC. 702. (a) Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish the District of Columbia Bail Agency, and for other purposes" approved July 26, 1966 (80 Stat. 327) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 2. There is hereby created for the District of Columbia the District of Columbia Bail Agency (hereinafter referred to as the 'agency') which shall secure pertinent data and provide for any judicial officer in the District of Columbia or any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force issuing citations, reports containing verified information concerning any individual with respect to whom a bail or citation determination is to be made." (b)(1) Section 4 of such Act is amended by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively, and by inserting the following new subsection after subsection (c): " (d) The agency, when requested by a member or officer of the Metropolitan Police force acting pursuant to court rules governing

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