Volume 68 · 1044
Public Law 83–749
To permit retired policemen, firemen of the District of Columbia to waive all or part of their relief, or retirement compensation.
Approved August 31, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit retired policemen, firemen of the District of Columbia to waive all or part of their relief, or retirement compensation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any person entitled to relief or retirement compensation pursuant to the provisions of section 12 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), as amended (title 4, ch. 5, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), may decline to accept all or any part of such relief or retirement compensation by a waiver signed and filed with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent. Such waiver may be revoked in writing at any time, but no payment of the relief or retirement compensation waived shall be made covering the period during which such waiver was in effect.
Approved August 31, 1954.