Volume 53
Public Law 76–38
To amend paragraph 57 of section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1913.
Approved April 5, 1939
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend paragraph 57 of section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for other purposes”, approved March 4, 1913.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subparagraph fifth, paragraph 57, of section 8 of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1914, and for
26 D. C. Code § 82.
other purposes”, approved March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 974), be amended by deleting the words “four per centum, if an electric meter, or more than” and deleting “, if a gas meter,” so that the said subparagraph when so amended shall read as follows:
Inspection, etc., of gas and electric meters.
“If any consumer to whom a meter has been furnished shall request the Commission in writing to inspect such meter, the Commission shall have the same inspected and tested; if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be more than 2 per centum defective or incorrect to the prejudice of the consumer, the inspector shall order the gas or electrical corporation forthwith to remove the same and
Expense, by whom borne.
to place instead a correct meter, and the expense of such inspection and test shall be borne by the corporation; if the same, on being so tested, shall be found to be correct, the expense of such inspection and test shall be borne by the consumer.”
Approved, April 5, 1939.