PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 184-JULY 1, 1943 HIGHWAY FUND, GASOLINE TAX AND MOTOR VEHICLE FEES Appropriations The following sums are appropriated wholly out of the special und fund created by the Act entitled "An Act to provide for a tax on motor-vehicle fuels sold within the District of Columbia, and for 43Stat. 106; 50 Stat. other purposes", approved April 23, 1924, and the Act entitled "An 676. D.c . code 47-19.o Act to provide additional revenue for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved August 17, 1937, for expenses of the following departments and activities: DEPARTMENT OF VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC For personal services, including $6,000 for temporary clerk hire, $169,660. For purchase, installation, and modification of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, markers, painting white lines, labor, mainte- nance of non-passenger-carrying motor vehicles, printing and binding, postage, telephone service, heating, electricity, repairs to equipment Parking meters. of inspection stations, continuation of the operation of parking meters on the streets of the District of Columbia, including main- Traffic safety edn- tenance and repair, not to exceed $15,000 for such expenses as the Commissioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary in connection with traffic safety education, and such other expenses as may be neces- sary in the judgment of the Commissioners, said amount to be expended without reference to any other law, including not to exceed $35,000 for the operation and maintenance of electric traffic lights, signals, and controls, $191,160, of which not more than $20,000 shall be expended for the purchase, installation, and modification of electric Streetcar loading traffic-light signals: Provided, That no part of this or any other appro- priation contained in this Act shall be expended for building, install- ing, and maintaining streetcar loading platforms and lights of any description employed to distinguish same, except that a permanent type of platform may be constructed from appropriations contained in this Act for street improvements when plans and locations thereof are approved by the Public Utilities Commission and the Director of Vehicles and Traffic: Provided further, That the street-railway company shall after construction maintain, mark, and light the same pasit of fees from at its expense: Provided further, That fees from parking meters shall be deposited to the credit of the highway fund of the District of Columbia. Parking spaces or The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized and directed to designate, reserve, and properly mark appropriate and sufficient parking spaces on the streets adjacent to all public buildings in such District for the use of Members of Congress engaged on public business. For the purchase of motor-vehicle identification number plates. $7,000. POLICE TRAFFIC CONTROL For expenses necessarily involved in the police control, regu- lation, and administration of traffic upon the highways, $607,500, which amount shall be transferred to the appropriation contained in this Act for pay and allowances of officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT For personal services, $251,266. 338 [57 STAT.
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