Volume 63
Public Law 81–710
To remove the requirement of residence in the District of Columbia for membership on the Commission on Mental Health.
Approved October 25, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
To remove the requirement of residence in the District of Columbia for membership on the Commission on Mental Health.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the second
Commission on Mental Health.
sentence of the first paragraph of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for insanity proceedings in the District of Columbia”, approved June 8, 1938 (52 Stat, 625; sec. 21–308, D. C.
Ante, p. 492.
Code, 1940 edition), is amended by striking out the words “bona fide residents of the District of Columbia who have resided in said District for a continuous period of three years immediately preceding their appointment”; and by striking “District Court of the United States” and substituting in lieu thereof “United States District Court”, so that such sentence will read: “The said Commission shall be drawn from a panel of nine, who shall be appointed by the judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia”.
Approved October 25, 1949.