for such holidays as fall within a regular tour of duty of not less Annual leave, etc. than five days in any established workweek. Persons employed Sick leave. Part-time employees. Gifts of money. Service credit for retirement. 46 Stat. 469. 5 U.S.C. & 61 Stat. 250. 65 Stat. 368. 65 Stat. 369. Food Services authorized. under this paragraph shall not be entitled, by reason of such service, to vacation or annual leave with pay. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, such persons shall be entitled to sick leave with pay, to be cumulative at the rate of one day a month, September to June, inclusive, of each year, the total cumulation not to exceed thirty days, to be granted under such conditions as the Board may by regulation prescribe: Provided, That as to part-time employees such leave shall be pro rated on an hourly basis. The days of sick leave with pay provided for in this section shall mean days on which employees would otherwise work and receive pay and shall be exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and vacation periods authorized by the Board; (e) upon the written recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, to accept for the benefit of the program of food services gifts of money which shall be deposited in the fund created by section 4 of this Act, and of personal property and volunteer personal service. SEC. 3. Service rendered by any person for salary or wages as an employee of any cafeteria or lunchroom operated in the public school buildings of the District during any period prior to the date when such cafeteria or lunchroom is placed under the office of central management shall, if and when such person becomes an employee of the Department of Food Services, be deemed to be service rendered for the government of the District of Columbia for purposes of the Civil Service Retirement Act, approved May 29, 1930, as amended, to be computed in accordance with section 5 of such Act: Provided, That such person shall make deposits covering such service as provided in section 9 of such Act: And provided further, That any such person may elect to make such deposits in installments in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of such Act. SEC. 4. Article II of title I of the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947, as amended, is hereby amended by inserting the following new salary schedules immediately after the salary schedule for Class 34-Child Labor Inspectors: "DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES "CLASS 35-DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES "A basic salary of $6,000 per year, with an annual increase in salary of $200 for five years, or until a maximum salary of $7,000 per year is reached. "CLASS 36-ASSISTANT DIRECTORS OF DEPARTMENT OF FOOD SERVICES "A basic salary of $5,000 per year, with an annual increase in salary of $200 for five years, or until a maximumn salary of $6,000 per year is reached." SEC. 5. There is hereby created in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as "District of Columbia Public School Food Services Fund", hereinafter referred to as the "Food Services Fund", Appropriation and there is authorized to be appropriated, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, $25,000 which shall be credited to the Food Services Fund. All revenues and receipts of any nature whatever derived from the operation of food services, or as provided otherwise by this Act, shall, under regulations of the Board, be paid over to the Collector of Taxes of the District of Columbia not less often than once each week and by him deposited in the Treasury of the United Deposit of receipts. States to the credit of the Food Services Fund. Such fund shall be Exp nitures used as a permanent revolving fund and expenditures therefrom shall from fund. be made only upon vouchers certified by the Superintendent of Schools or his designated agent and approved before payment by the Auditor of the District of Columbia, and shall be disbursed in the same manner as other District of Columbia funds are disbursed. The Food Services Fund shall be available for the purchase of food, supplies, and all other services and expenditures of whatever nature which are necessary for the conduct of the Department of Food Services, including personal services, the operation and maintenance of motor trucks, and the expenses of conducting the Office of Central Management. SEC. 6. Appropriations are hereby authorized for the acquisition, Equipment. maintenance and replacement of equipment used or acquired for use Appropriation in the conduct of the Department of Food Services in the public schools authorized. of the District of Columbia. SEC. 7. (a) All funds, whether in cash or other form, in the custody Payment and deor possession of the person or persons operating cafeterias and lunch- posit of funds. rooms in public school buildings of the District of Columbia which funds have been derived from such operations shall, on the date such cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under the Office of Central Management, be paid to the Collector of Taxes, District of Columbia, and deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the Food Services Fund, and all supplies and equipment of whatever Transfer of nature acquired for use in such cafeterias and lunchrooms shall, by supplies, etc. the person or persons having custody or possession of such supplies and equipment, be returned or transferred to the Board of Education, together with all books and records pertaining to the same: Provided, Time limitation. That the Board of Education shall place all such cafeterias and lunchrooms under the Office of Central Management not more than one year after the Department of Food Services is established by said Board. (b) All obligations incurred for food, supplies, and equipment used or usable in the conduct of cafeterias and lunchrooms unsatisfied on the day the respective cafeterias and lunchrooms are placed under 65 Stat. 369. the Office of Central Management, shall be paid from the Food 65 Stat. 370. Services Fund. SEC. 8. Insofar as the Board shall conduct a school lunch program School-lunch prounder the authority of this title, it shall be considered a "school" gram. within the meaning of the National School Lunch Act, and all funds 60 Stat. 230. to which it may thus become entitled as a participating school under 42 U.S.C. § 1751 the National School Lunch Act shall be deposited in the fund created note. by section 5 hereof. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Auditor of the District of Audits. Columbia to audit at least quarterly the accounts of the Department of Food Services and make reports thereof to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. SEC. 10. This title may be cited as the "District of Columbia Public Citation of title. School Food Services Act". TITLE II-DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES SEC. 201. The Board of Education of the District of Columbia is Commodity conauthorized (a) to enter into a contract or contracts from time to time tracts. with the United States Department of Agriculture for the distribution to schools and to public and charitable institutions of commodities made available by said Department, and (b) to carry out, under regu- Milk program. lations of the said Board, a program or programs of furnishing milk All 65 Stat. 370. Appropriations authorized. to school children in the District, including the purchase and distribution of milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture: Provided, That all moneys collected under such program or programs shall be paid to the Collector of Taxes of the District of Columbia for deposit into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District. SEC. 202. Appropriations are hereby authorized to enable the Board of Education to carry out the contracts and programs authorized by this title. Approved October 8, 1951. Public Law 354 82d Congress AN ACT All 66 Stat. 89. To amend the Act approved August 4, 1919, as amended, providing additional aid for the American Printing House for the Blind. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Act entitled American "An Act providing additional aid for the American Printing House Printing House for the Blind", approved August 4, 1919, as amended, is hereby for the Blind. amended to read as follows: 41 Stat. 272. 20 U.S.C. 101. "That for the purpose of enabling the American Printing House for the Blind more adequately to provide books and apparatus for the education of the blind, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to it, in addition to the permanent appropriation of $10,000 made in the Act entitled 'An Act to promote the education of the blind, approved March 3, 1879, as amended, the sum not to exceed 20 Stat. 468. $250,000; which sum shall be expended in accordance with the requirements of said Act to promote the education of the blind.” Approved May 22, 1952. (236) To amend section 22 (relating to the endowment and support of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts) of the Act of June 29, 1935, so as to extend the benefits of such section to certain colleges in the Territory of Alaska. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sen- Alaska. tence of section 22 of the Act of June 29, 1935 (7 U. S. C., sec. 329), is College-aid. amended by striking out "colleges in the several States and the Terri- 49 Stat. 439. tory of Hawaii" and inserting in lieu thereof "colleges in the several States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii“. 66 Stat. 135. SEC. 2. Paragraph (a) of such section 22 is amended by striking 66 Stat. 136. out “$980,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,000,000“. SEC. 3. The first sentence of paragraph (b) of such section 22 is amended by striking out "$1,500,000" and inserting in lieu thereof "$1,501,500. SEC. 4. The second and third sentences of paragraph (b) of such section 22 are amended to read as follows: "The sums appropriated Annual payin pursuance of paragraph (a) shall be paid annually to the several ments. States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii in equal shares. The sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (b) shall be in addition to sums appropriated in pursuance of paragraph (a) and shall be allotted and paid annually to each of the several States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii in the proportion which the total population of each such State and Territory bears to the total population of all the States and the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, as determined by the last preceding decennial census." SEC. 5. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the Effective first day of the first fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the date. enactment of this Act. Approved June 12, 1952. (237) |