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PUBLIC LAW 91-531-DEC. 7, 1970

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SEC. 3. That part of the schedule of rates contained in section 101 ^^^'^^ ^^^oiice' of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958, salary "adjustment. as amended (D.O. Code, sec. 4-823), relating to salary class 11 is Ante, p. 354. amended to read as follows: Service step 1

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Class 1 1... Fire Chief Chief of Police."

SEC. 4. The amendment made by the third section of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the first pay period beginning on or after July 1, 1969. Approved December 7, 1970.

Effective date.

Public Law 91-531 AN ACT

December 7, 1970

To amend section 19 of the District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1962.

[H. R. 670]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rejjresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 19 of D.C. the District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 917; J^''J"ltl>ir'T^'

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. C Lode, sec. 3-218) is amended to read as lollows: responsibility of "SEC. 19. (a) Responsible relatives for any applicant or recipient relatives. of public assistance shall be limited to spouse for spouse and parent for a child under the age of twenty-one, and their financial responsibility shall be based upon their ability to pay. Any such applicant or recipient of public assistance or person in need thereof, or the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, may bring an action to require such financially responsible spouse or parent to provide such support, and the court shall have the power to make orders requiring such spouse or parent to pay such eligible applicant or recipient of public assistance such sum or sums of money in such installments as the court in its discretion may direct, and such orders may be enforced in the same manner as orders for alimony. "(b) The Commissioner is authorized en behalf of the District to P"^**" t° s"«» sue such spouse or parent for the amount of public assistance granted to such recipient under this Act or under any Act repealed by this Act, or for so much thereof as such spouse or parent is reasonably able to "(c) AH suits, actions, and court proceedings under this section court jurisdic.. shall be brought in the Domestic Relations Branch of the District of "°"* Columbia Court of General Sessions, or in that court division which may subsequently exercise the jurisdiction exercised by the Domestic Relations Branch on the effective date of this Act. To the extent applicable, suits, actions, and proceedings brought pursuant to this section shall be governed by the provisions of the Act approved April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. I l l), as such Act may from time to time be amended or An<e, p. 473. superseded." Approved December 7, 1970.

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