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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 327, 328-JUNE 8, 1938 SEC. 5 . Any person who willfully fails to file any statement required to be filed under this Act, or in complying with the provisions of this Act, makes a false statement of a material fact, or willfully omits to state any material fact required to be stated therein shall, on con- viction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than two years, or both. SEC. 6 . The Secretary is authorized and directed to prescribe such rules, regulations, and forms as may be necessary to carry out this Act. SEC. 7 . This Act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after the date of its enactment. Approved, June 8, 1938. [CHAPTER 328] AN ACT To amend the Federal Aid Act, approved July 11, 1916, as amended and sup- plemented, 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 pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide that the United States shall aid the States in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes", approved July 11, 1916 (39 Stat. 355), and all Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums, to be expended according to the provisions of such Act as amended and supplemented: The sum of $100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, and the sum of $115,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941. (a) All sums herein or hereafter authorized and apportioned to the States shall be available for expenditure for one year after the close of the fiscal year for which said sums, respectively, are author- ized, and any sum remaining unexpended at the end of the period during which it is available for expenditure shall be reapportioned among the States as provided in section 21 of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 217). (b) Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, the District of Columbia shall be entitled to share in all sums herein or hereafter authorized and apportioned to the States, upon the same terms and conditions as any of the several States, and the District of Columbia shall be included in the calculations to determine the basis of apportionment of such funds: Provided, That the system of roads on which Federal-aid apportionments to the District of Columbia shall be expended may be determined and agreed upon by the highway department of the said District and the Secretary of Agriculture without regard to the limitations in section 6 of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 213) respecting the selection and designation of such system of roads; and, when the system first determined and agreed upon shall have been completed, additions thereto may be made in like manner as funds become available for the construction of such additions. (c) Hereafter the construction of highways by the States with the aid of Federal funds may include such roadside and landscape devel- opment, including such sanitary and other facilities as may be deemed reasonably necessary to provide for the suitable accommodation of the public, all within the highway right-of-way and adjacent publicly owned or controlled recreational areas of limited size and with pro- vision for convenient and safe access thereto by pedestrian and vehicu- lar traffic, as may be approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. 633 Penalty provisions. Rules and regula- tions. Effective date. June 8, 1938 [H. R . 10140] [Public, No. 584] Federal Aid High- way Act of 1938. 39 Stat. 355. 23U.S.C.§§1-25; Supp. III, ch. 1. Appropriations au- thorized for fiscal years 1940 and 1941. Availability of sums for expenditure. Reapportionmentof unexpended sums. 42 Stat. 217. 23U.S.C. 21. Inclusion of District of Columbia in appor- tionment beginning with fiscal year 1940. Proviso. Determination of system of roads. 42 Stat. 213 . 23U. .C.§6. Additions. Roadside and land- scape development.