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PUBLIC LAW 93-140-OCT. 26, 1973

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CARE OF PATIENTS IN SECTARIAN AND NONSECTARIAN INSTITUTIONS Contract SEC. 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commis- thority. sioner of the District of Columbia, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the District of Columbia Council, is authorized from time to time to enter into contracts with institutions under sectarian and nonsectarian control, and to make payments to such institutions, for the care of indigent and medically indigent patients in hospitals and for the care and maintenance of persons who are a responsibility of the District of Columbia. The Council shall, in determining the level of payment to sectarian and nonsectarian institutions, take into consideration average costs in caring for like persons in area institutions, and in no event shall such payment for medical services exceed reasonable costs as determined under the District of Columbia medicaid program.

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S T I P E N D S FOR P A T I E N T S

SEC. 6. The Commissioner of the District of Columbia is authorized, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the District of Columbia Council, to provide for the payment of stipends to patients and residents employed in institutions of or under programs sponsored b}^ the government of the District of Columbia as an aid to their rehabilitation or for training purposes. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring employee status on any person covered by this section. BENEFITS F U R N I S H E D WORKERS I N

DISTRICT FACILITIES

SEC. 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner of the District of Columbia is authorized to furnish, pursuant to regulations prescribed by the District of Columbia Council, subsistence, living quarters, and laundry in lieu of salary to persons authorized by the Commissioner to work in facilities of the government of the District of Columbia for the purposes of securing training and experience in their future vocations. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring employee status on any person covered by this section, nor as superseding the requirements of sections 6352 and 5353 of title 5, United States Code, relating to student employees so Stat. 472; specified therein who are assigned or attached to a hospital, clinic, or 82 Stat. 1312. medical or dental laboratory. F I R E PROTECTION SERVICES

SEC. 8. The Commissioner of the District of Columbia is authorized to make provisions and payment for the furnishing of fire prevention and fire protection services to District of Columbia government institutions located outside the District of Columbia. F U N D S FOR THE P R E V E N T I O N A N D DETECTION OF C R I M E

SEC. 9. The Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police Department is authorized, with the approval of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia and within the limits of appropriations therefor, to make expenditures for the prevention and detection of crime under his certificate. The certificate of the Chief of Police for such expenditures shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum therein expressed to have been expended.

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