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 PUBLIC LAW 94-533—OCT. 17, 1976

90 STAT. 2493

Public Law 94-533 94th Congress An Act To amend the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 to provide for the same cost-of-living adjustments in the basic compensation of officers and members of the United States Park Police force as are given to Federal employees under the General Schedule and to require submittal of a report on the feasibility and desirability of codifying the laws relating to the United States Park Police force.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, PURPOSE

1. The purpose of this Act is to insure that officers and members of the United States Park Police force are entitled to adjustments in basic compensation in the same overall percentage as are other Federal employees within the General Schedule under the Federal pay comparability system. SECTION

Oct. 17, 1976 [H.R. 15276]

D.C. U.S. Park Police, compensation, cost-of-living adjustment. D.C. Code 4-833 note. 5 USC 5332 note.

ADJUSTMENTS I N BASIC COMPENSATION OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS OP THE PARK POLICE FORCE

SEC. 2. Section 501 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen's Salary Act of 1958 (D.C. Code, sec. 4-833) is amended— (1) by striking out "The rates" and inserting in lieu thereof "(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the rates" in lieu thereof, and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(b)(1) Effective at the beginning at the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay under General Schedule, the annual rate of basic compensation of officers and members of the United States Park Police force shall be adjusted by the Secretary of the Interior by an amount (rounded to the next highest multiple of $5) equal to the percentage of such annual rate of pay which corresponds to the overall percentage (as set forth in the applicable report transmitted to the Congress under such section 5305) of the adjustment made in the rates of pay under the General Schedule. "(2) No adjustment in the annual rate of basic compensation of such officers and members may be made except in accordance with paragraph (1). "(c) Any reference in any law to the salary schedule in section 101 of this Act with respect to officers and members of the United States Park Police force shall be considered to be a reference to such schedule as adjusted in accordance with subsection (b).".

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D.C. Code 4-823.

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