Volume 76 · 596
Public Law 87–697
To provide for a reduction in the workweek of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Approved September 25, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for a reduction in the workweek of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (a) of subsection (a) 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. 498), as amended (sec. 4–404a(a), D.C. Code, 1961 edition),
Workweek.
is amended to read as follows:
“(a) (1) Beginning with the first day of the first pay period which begins not less than one hundred and twenty days after enactment of this amendatory subsection or which begins on or after July 1, 1962, whichever is later, the Commissioners or the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to establish a workweek for officers and members of the Firefighting Division of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia which will result in an average workweek of not to exceed forty-eight hours during an administratively established workweek cycle which the Commissioners are hereby authorized to establish from time to time.”
Sec. 2.
Paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of subsection (a) of section 2 of such Act approved June 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 498), as amended (sec. 4–404a(a), D.C. Code, 1961 edition), are hereby redesignated as paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5), and (6), respectively.
Paragraph (c) of subsection (a) of section 2 of such Act approved June 19, 1948, as amended, and redesignated as paragraph (3) by this section, is amended by striking therefrom the period and
Temporary services.
inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: “Provided, That notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent or agents may, whenever the exigencies of the Fire Department require temporary or short-term services of one or more officers or members, order such officer, officers, member, or members to perform such services.”
Sec. 3.
Clause (E) of subsection (b) of section 405 of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1953 (67 Stat. 76), as amended (sec. 4–821, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), is amended to read as follows:
“(E) In the case of the Firefighting Division of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia—
“(i) a biweekly rate shall be divided by two to derive a weekly rate;
“(ii) the weekly rate shall be divided by the number of workdays in the average established workweek to arrive at a daily rate;
“(iii) a daily rate shall be divided by two to derive a one-half daily rate; and
“(iv) an hourly rate shall be determined by dividing the daily rate of pay by twelve, except for the purpose of computation of holiday pay.”
Sec. 4.
In lieu of the annual leave to which officers and members of the Firefighting Division of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia are entitled under the provisions of section 203(a) of the
Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951 (65 Stat. 679), as amended, such officers and members shall be entitled to annual leave which shall accrue as follows:
Four and eight-tenths hours for each full biweekly pay period in the case of officers and members with less than three years’ service;
Seven and five-tenths hours for each full biweekly pay period in the case of officers and members with three but less than fifteen years’ service;
Nine and six-tenths hours for each biweekly pay period in the case of officers and members with fifteen years’ or more service.
Accumulated annual leave to the credit of each officer and member of such Firefighting Division shall be adjusted by applying a four-fifths factor so that each officer and member of such Firefighting Division shall be given credit for four-fifths of a day of leave for each day of such accumulated annual leave, and thereafter accumulated annual leave credited to him pursuant to the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, as amended, shall be similarly adjusted when an
officer or member is transferred to the Firefighting Division from another agency or from another division of the Fire Department.
When an officer or member of such Firefighting Division is transferred to another agency or to another division of the Fire Department, whose employees are entitled to annual leave with pay pursuant to the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, as amended, the reverse of the formula in subsection (b) shall be applied for the purpose of adjusting accumulated annual leave.
For computation on an hourly basis, all adjusted days of annual
Computation on hourly basis.
leave or fractions thereof, as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, and days of sick leave shall be multiplied by twelve to determine the number of hours of annual or sick leave to which each such officer or member of such Firefighting Division shall be entitled, and the number of hours of annual or sick leave shall be divided by twelve to determine the number of days, or fraction thereof, of annual or sick leave to which such officer or member of such Firefighting Division shall be entitled.
Notwithstanding any provision in any other law, the amount of
Effective date.
annual leave accumulated on the effective date of this Act, if thirty days or more, shall, upon conversion to the new total in accordance with this section, be the maximum accumulation authorized: Provided, That if the amount of annual leave accumulated before the conversion is less than thirty days on the effective date of this Act, then, after conversion to the new total, leave which is not used shall accumulate for use in succeeding years until it totals no more than twenty-four days at the beginning of the first complete biweekly pay period.
Sec. 5.
This Act shall take effect on the first day of the first pay period which begins not less than one hundred and twenty days alter its enactment, or on or after the first day of the first pay period which begins on or after July 1, 1962, whichever is later.
Approved September 25, 1962.