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Public Law 85–119

To provide that members of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia may be removed for cause.

Approved August 2, 1957

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide that members of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia may be removed for cause.

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

That section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia”, approved June 20, 1906 (D. C. Code, sec. 31–101), is amended by inserting “(a)” immediately after “Sec. 2.” and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) The judges of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall have power to remove any member of the Board of Education at any time for adequate cause affecting his character and efficiency as a member, after a public hearing on a verified complaint filed by the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, or one of his assistants, and on issues framed by a verified answer. The United States District Court of the District of Columbia is empowered to promulgate rules to carry out the purpose of this subsection.”

Approved August 2, 1957.

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