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PUBLIC LAW 91-297-JUNE 30, 1970
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as near that date as practicable. Subsequent payments shall be on the first and sixteenth days of the month or as near those dates as practicable. The salaries of other employees in salary class 15 shall begin when they enter upon their duties." (b) The fourth paragraph under the paragraph beginning with the side heading "FOR ALLOWANCE TO PRINCIPALS:" under the center heading " P U B L I C SCHOOLS." in the first section of such Act of May 26, 35 Stat. 2 9 1. 1908 (D.C. Code, sec. 31-630), is amended to read as follows: "Effective July 1, 1970, the following rules for division of time and computation of pay for services rendered are established: Compensations of all employees in salary class 15 and such other employees who were paid on a ten-month basis immediately prior to the effective date of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act amendments of 1970 shall be paid in twenty semimonthly installments, except that employees in salary class 15 may, under such rules and regulations as the Board of Education may prescribe, make an election to be paid in twenty-four semimonthly installments. In making payments for a fractional part of a month, one-fifteenth of an installment shall be the daily rate of pay. For the purpose of computing such compensation and for computing time for services rendered during a fractional part of a semimonthly period in connection with the compensation of such employees, each and every semimonthly period shall be held to consist of fifteen days, without regard to the actual number of days in any semimonthly period thus excluding the 31st day of any calendar months from the computation and treating February as if it actually had thirty days. Any person entering the service of the schools during a thirty-one-day month and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to pay tor that month from the date of entry to the 30th day of such month, both days inclusive; and any person entering such service during the month of February and serving until the end thereof shall be entitled to one month's pay, less as many days thereof as there were days elapsed prior to the date of entry. For one day's unauthorized absence on the 31st day of any calendar month one day's pay shall be forfeited." . Re r • SEC. 305. (a) Retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid by compensation reason of this title only in the case of an individual in the service of the provisions. Board of Education of the District of Columbia (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) on the date of enactment of this title, except that such retroactive compensation or salary shall be paid (1) to any employee covered in this title who, as of June 29, 1970, is in the service of the Board of Education, (2) to any employee covered in this title who retired during the period beginning on the first day of the first pay period which began on or after September 1, 1969, and ending on the date of enactment of this title, for services rendered during such period, and (3) in accordance with the provisions of subchapter VIII of chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code 82*stau*i2^u.' (relating to settlement of accounts of deceased employees), for services s use sssirendered during the period beginning on the first day of the first pay ^^^'^' period which began on or after September 1, 1969, and ending on the date of enactment of this Act, by any such employee who dies during such period. (b) For purposes of this section, service in the Armed Forces of the Military service. United States in the case of an individual relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the United States or discharged from
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