Volume 65 · 39
Public Law 82–24
To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to establish daylight saving time in the District.
Approved April 25, 1951
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to establish daylight saving time in the District.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance the standard time applicable to the District one hour for the period commencing not earlier than the last Sunday of April 1951 and ending not later than the last Sunday of September 1951. Any such time established by the Commissioners under the authority of this Act shall, during the period of the year for which it is applicable, be the standard time for the District of Columbia.
Approved April 25, 1951.