59 STAT.] 79rH CONG. , 1ST SESS. -CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 systems, including personal services, allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile), and printing and binding; rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of telephone, tele- graph, and radio services; and street lighting, including the purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lamp posts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost and maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181),. and other laws applicable thereto; $1,130,000: Provided, That this appropria- tion shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed. Capital outlay, Electrical Division: For all expenses necessary for placing underground, relocating, and extending the telephone, police- patrol, and fire-alarm systems, $70,000. Central garage: For all expenses necessary for the purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses owned by the District of Columbia, including three chauffeurs for the Executive Office at $1,800 per annum each and other personal services, and printing and binding, $84,900. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles owned by the Dis- trict of Columbia shall be used exclusively for "official purposes" directly pertaining to the public service of said District, and shall be under the direction and control of the Commissioners, who may from time to time alter or change the assignment for use thereof or direct the joint or interchangeable use of any of the same by officials and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act; and "official purposes" shall not include the transportation of officers and employees between their domiciles and places of employ- ment, except as to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees the character of whose duties makes such transportation necessary, and then only as to such latter cases when the same is approved by the Commissioners. No motor vehicles shall be transferred from the police or fire departments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Operating expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from highway fund): For all operating expenses of the Street and Bridge Divisions, including operation, minor construction, maintenance, and repair of bridges; repairs to streets, avenues, roads, sidewalks, and alleys; reconditioning existing gravel streets and roads; and cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, cross walks, and gutters, in the discretion of the Commissioners; such expenses to include personal services; allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile); books of reference and periodicals; printing and bind- ing; and purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger- carrying motor vehicles, surveying instruments, implements, and equipment used in this work; $1,500,000, of which amount $45,000 shall be exclusively for snow removal purposes. Capital outlay, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from highway fund): For personal services and all expenses necessary for the grad- ing, surfacing, paving, repaving, widening, altering, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including curbing and 287 36 Stat. 1008, 1011. D. C . Code§§ 7-701 to 7-705. Rates for electric street lighting. Use of motor ve- hicles for "official pur- poses." Snow removal. Pod, p. 288 .
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