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Public Law 84–227
To provide for the payment of compensation to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, the White House Police force, and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, for duty performed on their days off, when such days off are suspended during an emergency.
Approved August 4, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the payment of compensation to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, the White House Police force, and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, for duty performed on their days off, when such days off are suspended during an emergency.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first section of the Act entitled “An Act to provide a five-day week for officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force, the United States Park Police force, and the White House Police force”, approved August 15, 1950. as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 4–904), is amended by adding
at the end thereof the following new subsection:
“(f) Whenever the granting of days off has been suspended and discontinued pursuant to this Section, each officer and member shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his annual basic salary, compensation at the basic daily rate for each day of duty which he performs by reason of the suspension and discontinuance of his days off under this section. Any officer or member so performing duty shall be entitled to all rights, benefits, and privileges, and shall be subject to all obligations and duties to which he is entitled or to which he is subject on any regular workday. Such compensation shall be treated for the purpose of computing retirement compensation or relief payments, or for deduction, in the same manner as is compensation for duty voluntarily performed under subsection (e) of this section.”
Sec. 2.
Subsection (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to classify the officers and members of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes’, approved June 20, 1906, and for other purposes”, approved June 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 499), is amended by adding at the end thereof
D. C. Code 4–404a.
the following: “Whenever the granting of days off has been suspended and discontinued pursuant to this subsection, each officer and member shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his annual basic salary, compensation at the basic daily rate for each day of duty which he performs by reason of the suspension and discontinuance of his days off under this subsection. Any officer or member so performing duty shall be entitled to all rights, benefits, and privileges, and shall be subject to all obligations and duties, to which he is entitled or to which he is subject on any regular workday. Additional compensation paid under this subsection shall not be considered as salary for the purpose of computing retirement compensation or relief payments under section 12 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 thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes’, approved September 1, 1916,
D. C. Code 4–501 to 4–517, passim.
as amended, nor shall such additional compensation be subject to deduction as provided in section 5 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to
D.C. Code 4–503, 4–504.
fix the salaries of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Eire Department of the District of Columbia’, approved July 1, 1930, as amended.”
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1955.
Effective date.
Approved August 4, 1955.