Volume 84 · 1357
Public Law 91–521
To authorize appropriations for the Civil Rights Commission, and for other purposes.
Approved November 25, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for the Civil Rights Commission, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section 1.
Subsection (a) of section 103 of the Civil Rights Act of
Compensation.
1957 (71 Stat. 635; 42 U.S.C. 1975b(a)), as amended, is further amended as follows: Strike “$75” and insert in lieu thereof “$100”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (a) of section 105 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (71 Stat. 636; 42 U.S.C. 1975d(a)), as amended, is further amended as follows: Strike “$75” and insert, in lieu thereof “$100”.
Sec. 3.
Section 106 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (71 Stat. 636; 42 U.S.C. 1975e), as amended, is further amended to read as follows:
“Sec. 106.
For the purposes of carrying out this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, the sum of $3,400,000, and for each fiscal year thereafter until January 31, 1973, the sum of $3,400,000.”
Sec. 4.
Subsection (e) of sect ion 102 of the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Defamatory report, answer.
(71 Stat. 634, as amended, 78 Stat. 249) is amended by inserting the following after the last, period: “If a report of the Commission tends to defame, degrade or incriminate any person, then the report shall be delivered to such person thirty days before the report shall lie made public in order that such person may make a timely answer to the report. Each person so defamed, degraded or incriminated in such
Filing.
report may file with the Commission a verified answer to the report not later than twenty days after service of the report upon him. Upon a showing of good cause, the Commission may grant the person an extension of time within which to file such answer. Each answer shall plainly and concisely state the facts and law constituting the person’s reply or defense to the charges or allegations contained in the report Such answer shall be published as an appendix to the report. The right to answer within these time limitations and to have the answer annexed to the Commission report shall be limited only by the Commission’s power to except from the answer such matter as it determines has been inserted scandalously, pre judiciously or unnecessarily.”
Approved November 25, 1970.