Public Law 86–356

That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the establishment of a band in the Metropolitan Police force”, approved July 11, 1947, as amended, is amended by inserting after section 2 thereof the following new sections:

“Sec. 3.

Notwithstanding the limitations of existing law, the person who is the director of the Metropolitan Police force band on the effective date of this section may elect to retire after having served ten or more years in such capacity and having attained the age of seventy years. Upon such retirement, whether for age and service or for disability, said director and his surviving spouse shall be entitled to receive annuities in amounts equivalent to, and under the conditions applicable to, the annuities which a captain in the Metropolitan Police force and his surviving spouse may be entitled to receive after such captain has retired from said force for substantially the same reason as that for which said director may retire, whether for age and service or for disability, as the case may be. If the said director shall apply for retirement for disability, he shall not be eligible to retire under section 12(g) of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (39 Stat. 718), as amended (sec. 4–527. D.C. Code, 1951 edition, Supp. VI), but he shall be eligible to apply for retirement under

71 Stat. 394.

section 12(f) of such Act, as amended (sec. 4–526, D.C. Code, 1951 edition, Supp. VI), in like manner as if the said director were an officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force. The annuities hereby authorized shall be in addition to any pension or retirement compensation which said director may be entitled to receive from any other source, whether from the United States or otherwise. The annuities payable to said director and his surviving spouse pursuant to this Act shall be pay-able from District of Columbia appropriations, but shall not be considered as annuities payable to an officer or member of the Metro politan Police force or to the surviving spouse of such officer or member. Appropriations for the operations of the Metropolitan Police Department are made available for this purpose. Annuities authorized by this section shall be computed on the basis of compensated service rendered after July 11, 1947.

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“Sec. 4.

The person who is the Director of the Metropolitan Police force band on the date of approval of this Act shall, upon his retirement from such position, be retired under the provisions of this Act and not under the Civil Service Retirement Act, and the moneys

70 Stat. 743, 70 Stat. 759.

5 USC 2251, 2267.

to his credit in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund created under the authority of the Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930, as amended, on the date of such retirement, together with such moneys in such fund as may have been contributed by the District of Columbia toward the cost of his annuity under such Act, shall be transferred to the credit of the general revenues of the District of Columbia.

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“Sec. 5.

Section 3 of said Act approved July 11, 1947, as amended,

61 Stat. 311.

D. C. Code 4–184.

is renumbered ‘4’.”

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