62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 555 -JUNE 19, 1948 systems, including rental, purchase, installation, and maintenance of telephone, telegraph, and radio services; and street lighting, including the installation and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, 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 Colum- bia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181), and other laws applicable thereto- $1,230,200: Provided That this appro- priation 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 expenses necessary for placing underground, relocating, and extending the telephone, police- patrol, and fire-alarm cable and circuit distribution systems; installing and extending radio systems; and purchase of lampposts, street designations, and fixtures of al kinds; $275,700. Central garage: For expenses, including the purchase of passenger motor vehicles, work cars, field wagons, ambulances, and busses and three chauffeurs for the Executive Office at $2,394 per annum each, $106,900. All motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles (including water- craft) owned by the District of Columbia shall be operated and utilized in conformity with section 5 (c) of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C . 78c), 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 alteration or interchange- able use of any of the same by officers and employees of the District, except as otherwise provided in this Act: Provided, That "official purposes" shall not apply to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and in cases of officers and employees, the character of whose duties make 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 depart- ments to any other branch of the government of the District of Columbia. Operating expenses, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from highway fund): For 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 purchase of passenger motor vehicles, surveying instruments, implements, and equipment used in this work: $1,904,000, of which amount $70,000 shall be exclusively for snow removal purposes: Provided,That the Com- missioners are hereby authorized to purchase and install a municipal asphalt plant including all auxiliary plant equipment to be paid for from this appropriation at a cost not to exceed $150,000. Capital outlay, Street and Bridge Divisions (payable from high- way fund): For expenses necessary for the grading, surfacing, paving, repaving, widening, altering, and otherwise improving streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, including curbing and gutters, directional and pedestrian islands at various intersections to permit of proper traffic-light control and channelization of traffic, drainage structures, culverts, suitable connections to storm-water sewer sys- 551 D. C . Code 5§7-701 to 7-705. Rates for electric street lighting. Use of motor vehi- cles. 60 Stat. 810. 5U. .S . 78 (c). Nonapplicablillty of "official purposes." Snow removal. Municipal asphalt plant.
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