Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 83.djvu/457

This page needs to be proofread.

[83 STAT. 429]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1969
[83 STAT. 429]

83 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 91-155-DEC. 24, 1969

soil investigations: Provided further, That $920,000 of this appropriation (to remain available until expended) shall be available solely for District of Columbia employees' disability compensation: Provided further, That not to exceed $60,000 of this appropriation shall be available for settlement of property damage claims not in excess of $500 each and personal injury claims not in excess of $1,000 each. PUBLIC SAFETY

Public safety, including employment of consulting physicians, diagnosticians, and therapists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner; cash gratuities of not to exceed $75 to each released prisoner; purchase of one hundred and ninety-eight passenger motor vehicles (including one hundred and eighty-seven for police-type use and nine for fire-type use without regard to the general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year but not in excess of $400 per vehicle for police-type and $600 per vehicle for fire-type use above such limitation) of which one hundred and eight are for replacement purposes; $129,556,000, of which $5,012,000 shall be payable from the highway fund (including $112,000 from the motor vehicle parking account): Provided, That not to exceed $50,000 of any funds from appropriations available to the District of Columbia may be used to match financial contributions from the Department of Defense to the District of Columbia Office of Civil Defense for the purchase of civil defense equipment and supplies approved by the Department of Defense, when authorized by the Commissioner: Provided further. That the Police Department and Fire Department are each authorized to replace not to exceed five passenger carrying vehicles annually whenever the cost of repair to any (jlamaged vehicle exceeds three-fourths the cost of the replacement: Provided further. That $623,000 of this appropriation shall be transferred to the judiciary and disbursed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts for expenses of the Legal Aid Agency of the District of Columbia. EDUCATION

Education, including purchase of seventeen passenger motor vehicles of which eleven shall be for replacement only, provision of insurance, maintenance, and acceptance of not to exceed thirty passenger motor vehicles on a loan basis for exclusive use in the driver education program, the development of national defense education programs, and matching of Federal grants under the National Defense Education Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1580), as amended, $140,386,000, of which $125,100 shall be payable from the 20 USC 401 highway fund: Provided, That certificates of the following officials "°^^' shall each be sufficient voucher for expenditures from this appropriation for such purposes as they may respectively deem necessary within the amounts specified: Superintendent of Schools, $500; President of the Federal City College, $1,000; and President of the Washington Technical Institute, $1,000. Section 5533(c) of title 5, United States Code, shall not apply to «i Stat. 637. compensation received by teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia for employment in a civilian office during the period July 1, 1969, to August 31, 1969.

429