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Public Law 84–320
To provide for the regulation of tares for the transportation of schoolchildren in the District of Columbia.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the regulation of tares for the transportation of schoolchildren 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 not withstanding provisions of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to authorize the merger of street-railway corporations operating in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes”, approved January 14,
D. C. Code 44–214 note.
1933, and the provisions of the unification agreement incorporated therein, and notwithstanding the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the transportation of schoolchildren in the District of
D. C. Code 44–214.
Columbia at a reduced fare”, approved February 25, 1931, the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia shall fix the rate of fare for transportation by street railway and bus of schoolchildren going to and from public, parochial, or like schools in the District of Columbia at not more than one-half the cash fare established from time to tune by the Public Utilities Commission for Regular route transportation within the District of Columbia, and shall establish rules and regulations governing the use thereof. No fares for schoolchildren shall be. available to persons over eighteen years of age.
Approved August 9, 1955.