Volume 79
Public Law 89–24
To authorize the Board of Parole of the District of Columbia to discharge a parolee from supervision prior to the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced.
Approved May 22, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Board of Parole of the District of Columbia to discharge a parolee from supervision prior to the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act entitled
D.C.
Parolees under supervision, discharge.
“An Act to establish a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to determine its functions, and for other purposes”, approved July 15, 1932, as amended (sec. 24–204, District of Columbia Code, 1961 edition), is amended by inserting
“(a)” immediately after “Sec. 4.” and by adding a new subsection at the end of section 4 to read as follows:
“(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the Board of Parole may, subject to the approval of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, promulgate rules and regulations under which the Board of Parole, in its discretion, may discharge a parolee from supervision prior to the expiration of the maximum term or terms for which he was sentenced.”
Sec. 2.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to affect the authority vested in the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia by Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824).
D.C. Code Title I, app.
The performance of any function vested by this Act in the Board of Commissioners or in any office or agency under the jurisdiction and control of said Board of Commissioners may be delegated by said Board of Commissioners in accordance with section 3 of such plan.
Approved May 22, 1965.