Volume 84 · 1579
Public Law 91–587
To modify and enlarge the authority of Gallaudet College to maintain and operate the Kendall School as a demonstration elementary school for the deaf to serve primarily the National Capital region, and for other purposes.
Approved December 24, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To modify and enlarge the authority of Gallaudet College to maintain and operate the Kendall School as a demonstration elementary school for the deaf to serve primarily the National Capital region, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose
Gallaudet College.
Kendall School maintenance and operation.
of providing day and residential facilities for elementary education for persons who are deaf in order to prepare them for high school and other secondary study, and to provide an exemplary educational program to stimulate the development of similar excellent programs throughout the Nation, the directors of Gallaudet College are authorized to maintain and operate Kendall School as a demonstration elementary school for the deaf, to serve primarily residents of the National Capital region.
Sec. 2.
As used in this Act—
Definitions.
The term “elementary school” means a school which provides education for deaf children from the age of onset of deafness to age fifteen, inclusive, but not beyond the eighth grade or its equivalent.
The term “construction” includes construction and initial equipment of new buildings, and expansion, remodeling, and alteration of existing buildings and equipment thereof, including architect’s services, but excluding offsite improvements.
authorization of appropriations
Sec. 3.
There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for the establishment and operation, including construction and equipment, of the demonstration elementary school provided for in section 1.
Federal funds appropriated for the benefit of the school shall be used only for the purposes for which paid and in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Act.
Sec. 4.
In the design and construction of any facilities, maximum attention shall be given to excellence of architecture and design, works of art, and innovative auditory and visual devices and installations appropriate for educational functions of such facilities.
Sec. 5. repeal of existing statutes
The second proviso of the first, paragraph under the heading “Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb” of the first section of the Act of March 2, 1889 (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1010), is
repealed.
The proviso and the last sentence in the paragraph having a side heading “Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb” in the first section of the Act of March 1, 1901 (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1008), is
repealed.
The last sentence under the heading “Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb” in the first section of the Act of March 3, 1905 (D.C. Code,sec. 31–1011),is repealed.
The last sentence of the first paragraph under the heading “Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb” in the first section of the Act of June 27, 1906 (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1011), is repealed.
The Act of November 7, 1966 (D.C. Code, sec. 31–1010a), and
each subsequent Act making appropriations for Gallaudet College, are amended by striking out the proviso under the heading “Gallaudet College, Salaries and Expenses” in each such Act.
Approved December 24, 1970.