Volume 81 · 81
Public Law 90–33
To amend section 5 of the Act of February 11, 1929, to remove the dollar limit on the authority of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims of the District of Columbia in escheat cases.
Approved June 28, 1967
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 5 of the Act of February 11, 1929, to remove the dollar limit on the authority of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims of the District of Columbia in escheat cases.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first proviso
D.C.
Escheat cases.
of section 5 of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to settle claims and suits against the District of Columbia”, approved February 11, 1929 (D.C. Code, sec. 1–906), is amended by inserting “, except, with the approval of the
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a claim or suit under section 19–701 of the District of Columbia Code,” immediately
after “no claim or suit so compromised”.
Approved June 28, 1967.