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[84 STAT. 598]
PUBLIC LAW 91-000—MMMM. DD, 1970
[84 STAT. 598]

598

Ante,p.553.

Ante. p. 476.

Ante, p. 572.

PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

[84 STAT.

(B) Immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month period beginning on such date in the case of amendments made by sections 144(10), 145(b)(2), 1 4 5 (k)(l), 145(1), 147(1), 148 (2), 149(2), 149(4), 149(6), and 150(a). The amendments made by section 150 to chapter 5 of title 21 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to hospitalization of the mentally ill) shall not apply with respect to any case pending before the United State District Court for the District of Columbia or the Commission on Mental Health at the expiration of such eighteen-month period. (4) Section 146(a)(1) (relating to the repeal of certain review provisions) shall not apply with respect to any appeal from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals over which the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has jurisdic^^^^ ^^^^^ section 11-301 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code as in effect immediately before the date of enactment of this Act. (5) Section 11-722 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, shall take effect with respect to petitions filed after the effective date of this title for review of decisions or orders. (g) The amendments made by subpart 2 of part D of this title to section 8 of the Act of March 4, 1913. shall not apply with respect to proceedings brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on or before the effective date of this title. (7) The amendments made by section 162 shall take effect with respect to petitions filed after the effective date of this title for review of decisions or orders. (8) Sections 195 and 196 shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) For purposes of this title and any amendment made by this title, the term "effective date of the District of Columbia Court Reorganization Act of 1970'- means the first day of the seventh calendar month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. TITLE II — C R I M I N A L L A W AND P R O C E D U R E S E N T E N C I N G OF M U L T I P L E

31 Stat. 1337.

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SEC. 201. (a) Section 907 of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3. 1901 (D.C. Code. sec. 22-104), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 907. (a) If any person— "(1) is convicted of a criminal offense (other than a non-moving traffic offense) under a law applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia, and "(2) was previously convicted of a criminal offense under any law of the United States or of a State or territory of the United States which offense, at the time of the conviction referred to in paragraph (1), is the same as, constitutes, or necessarily includes, the offense referred to in that paragraph, such person may be sentenced to pay a fine in an amount not more than one and one-half times the maximum fine prescribed for the conviction referred to in paragraph (1) and sentenced to imprisonment for a term not more than one and one-half times the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed for that conviction. If such person was previously convicted more than once of an offense described in paragraph (2), he may be sentenced to pay a fine in an amount not more than three times the maximum fine prescribed for the conviction referred to in paragraph (1) and sentenced to imprisonment for a term not more than three times the maximum term of imprisonment prescribed for