Volume 76
Public Law 87–708
To amend the Act of February 28, 1901, to insure that policemen and firemen in the District of Columbia will receive medical care for all injuries and diseases.
Approved September 27, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of February 28, 1901, to insure that policemen and firemen in the District of Columbia will receive medical care for all injuries and diseases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the third
D.C. policemen and firemen.
Medical care.
sentence of paragraph (7) of the first section of the Act entitled “An Act relating to the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia”, approved February 28, 1901, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 4–124), is
amended by inserting after “Fire Department of said District” the following: “for any injury received or disease contracted (whether or not received or contracted in the performance of duty)”.
Approved September 27, 1962.