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[72 Stat. 30]
PUBLIC LAW 85-000—MMMM. DD, 1958
[72 Stat. 30]

30 Mi n e ra sources.

PUBLIC LAW 85-338-MAR. 4, 1958

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SEC. 6. All withdrawals or reservations of public lands for the use of any agency of the Department of Defense, except lands withdrawn or reserved specifically as naval petroleum, naval oil shale, or naval coal reserves, heretofore or hereafter made by the United States, shall be deemed to be subject to the condition that all minerals, including oil and gas, in the lands so withdrawn or reserved are under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and there shall be no disposition of, or exploration for, any minerals in such lands except under the applicable public land mining and mineral leasing laws: Provided, That no disposition of, or exploration for, any minerals in such lands shall be made where the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, determines that such disposition or exploration is inconsistent with the military use of the lands so withdrawn or reserved. Approved February 28, 1958. Public Law 85-338

March 4, 1958 [S. 969]

D. C. a l c o h o l t e s t s, evidence.

43 Stat. 1124.

49 Stat. 385. 31 Stat. 1321.

AN ACT To prescribe the weijilit to be given to evidence of tests of alcohol in the blood, urine, or breath of persons tried in the District of Columbia for certain offenses committed while operating vehicles.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) if as a result of the operation of a vehicle, any person is tried in any court of competent jurisdiction within the District of Columbia for (1) operating such vehicle while under the influence of any intoxicating liquor in violation of section 10(b) of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, approved March 3, 1925, as amended (D. C. Code, title 40, sec. 609), (2) negligent homicide in violation of section 802(a) of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended (D. C. Code, title 40. sec. 606), or (3) manslaughter committed in the operation of such vehicle in violation of section 802 of such Act approved March 3, 1901 (D. C. Code, title 22, sec. 2405), and in the course of such trial there is received in evidence, based upon a chemical test, competent proof to the effect that at the time of such operation— (1) defendant's blood contained five one-hundredths of 1 per centum or less, by weight, of alcohol, or that an equivalent quantity of alcohol was contained in two thousand cubic centimeters of his breath (true breath or alveolar air having 51/2 per centum of carbon dioxide), or that defendant's urine contained eight onehundredths of 1 per centum or less, by weight, of alcohol, such proof shall be deemed prima facie proof that defendant at such time was not under the influence of any intoxicating liquor; (2) defendant's blood contained more than five one-hundredths of 1 per centum, but less than fifteen one-hundredths of 1 per centum, by weight, of alcohol, or that an equivalent quantity of alcohol was contained in two thousand cubic centimeters of his breath (true breath or alveolar air having 51/^ per centum of carbon dioxide), or that defendant's urine contained more than eight one-hundredths of 1 per centum, but less than twenty onehundredths of 1 per centum, by weight, of alcohol, such proof shall constitute relevant evidence, but shall not constitute prima facie proof that defendant was or was not at such time under the influence of any intoxicating liquor; and