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Public Law 83–594

To repeal the Act approved September 25, 1914, and to amend the Act approved June 12, 1934, both relating to alley dwellings in the District of Columbia.

Approved August 16, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To repeal the Act approved September 25, 1914, and to amend the Act approved June 12, 1934, both relating to alley dwellings in the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act entitled “An Act to provide, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, and safety, for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in the alleys in the District of Columbia”, approved September 25, 1914 (38 Stat. 716), as amended (secs. 5–101, 102, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2.

Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 4 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in alleys in the District of Columbia, and for the replatting and development of squares containing inhabited alleys, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, safety, and welfare, and for other purposes”, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 932), as amended (sec. 5–106. D. C. Code, 1951 edition), are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.

This Act shall take effect sixty days after approval or July 1,

Effective date.

1955, whichever is earlier.

Approved August 16, 1954.

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