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PUBLIC LAW 87-399-OCT. 5, 1961
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Public Law 87-399 October 5, 1961 [S. 1292]
AN ACT To amend the Act of June 19, 1948, relating to the workweek of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the D. C. F i r e D e United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection ^a) partment. of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to classify the officers and members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes', approved June 20, 1906, and for other purposes", approved June 19, 1948, as amended (sec. 4-404a(a), D.C. Code, 1951 e l.), is amended to read 62 Stat. 498 as follows: Workweek. "(a) The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to establish a workweek for officers and members of the firefighting division of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia which will result in an average workweek of fifty-six hours in any complete work cycle: Provided, That no workweek shall exceed seventy-two hours. "(b) The firefighting division shall operate under a two-shift system and all hours of duty of any shift shall be consecutive. "(c) The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are further authorized and directed to establish a workweek for officers and members of the Fire Department, other than those in the firefighting division, of forty hours, and the hours of work in such workweek shall be performed on consecutive days in such workweek. " (d) The days off duty to which each officer or member of the Fire Department is entitled shall be in addition to his annual leave and sick leave allowed by law. In the case of any shift of the Fire Department beginning on one day and extending without a break in continuity into the next day, or in the case of two shifts beginning on the same day, the Commissioners are authorized to designate the shift which shall be the workday, and the entire shift so designated shall be considered the workday for all pay and leave purposes. Holidays "(e) If a holiday shall fall on any day off of any officer or member of the Fire Department, he shall be excused from dut^ on such other day as is designated by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and if he is required to be on duty in lieu of such day off, he shall receive compensation for such duty at the rate provided by law for duty performed on a holiday. When any shift of the Fire Department begins on the day before a holiday and extends without a break in continuity into the holiday, or begins on a holiday and extends without a break in continuity into the next day, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to designate either of such shifts as the holiday workday, and the entire shift so designated shall be considered as the holiday workday for all pay and leave purposes. As used in this subsection the word 'holiday' shall have the same meaning as such word has in the Act of October 24, 1951 (65 Stat. 607), as amended (sec. 4-808, D.C. Code, 1951 ed.), and as suppleD. c. code 1- mentedby the Act of January 11, 1957 (71 Stat. 3; Public Law 85-1)." 1210. SEC. 2. Section 2 of such Act approved June 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 499; 59 Stat. 4 9 1. sec. 4-404a(b), D.C. Code 1951 ed.), is further amended by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (f) and by amending the first sentence Emergency situa- of subsection (f) as so redesignated to read as follows: "Notwithtions. standing the provisions of the preceding subsection, whenever the Commissioners declare that an emergency exists of such a character as to necessitate the continuous service of all or some of the officers and members of the Fire Department, the granting of days off shall be suspended during the continuation of such emergency."
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