issuer who has not consented to the preparation of such credit cards, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. SEC. 110. Defenses not available. In any prosecution for violation of this title, the Government is not required to establish and it is no defense that some of the acts constituting the crime did not occur in the District of Columbia or were not a crime or element of a crime where they did occur.

SEC. 111. Title not exclusive. This title shall not be construed to preclude the applicability of any other provision of the criminal law which presently applies or may in the future apply to any transaction which violates this title, unless such provision is clearly inconsistent with the terms of this title.

SEC. 112. Severability. If any provisions of this title or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the title which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this title are declared to be severable.

TITLE II-LICENSING SECOND-HAND DEALERS

SEC. 201. The last sentence of subparagraph (c) of paragraph 39 of section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, and for other purposes", approved July 1, 1902, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 472339 (c)), is amended to read as follows:

"For the purpose of this paragraph 39, the term 'secondhand personal property' shall not include any item of personal property (1) which the possessor thereof has acquired by reason of its return to him for credit, refund, or exchange by a person having purchased such item from such possessor, or (2) which is offered for sale, trade, or exchange by the person who repossesses the same."

TITLE III-ASSAULTS AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREMEN SEC. 301. Section 432 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 22-505), is amended by adding the following new subsection:

"(c) Whoever within the District of Columbia throws any stone or other missile into or in the direction of any group of five or more persons and who knows or should know that there is present in said group any officers or member or any police force operating in the District of Columbia or any officer or member of any fire department operating in the District of Columbia, who is engaged in the performance of his official duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. For purposes of this subsection, the term "missile" shall mean any object which when thrown, under the circumstances, caused or could have caused bodily injury."

TITLE IV-PROHIBIT POSSESSION OF FLASH PAPER OR WATER SOLUBLE PAPER

SEC. 401. Section 863a of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 31, 1901, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 22-1502), is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 563a. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, within the District of Columbia, knowingly to have in his possession or under his control, any record, notation, receipt, ticket, certificate, bill, slip, token, paper, or writing, current or not current, used or to be used in violating the provisions of sections 863, 865, or 869 of this Act.

"(b). It shall be unlawful for any person, within the District of Columbia, to knowingly have in his possession or under his control any paper, whether blank or with writing upon it, which is commonly referred to as 'flash paper' or which is commonly referred to as 'water soluble paper'.

"(c) As used in this section the term 'flash paper' means any paper which, when heat or flame is applied to it, combusts nearly instantaneously and is completely destroyed leaving little or no ash. As used in this section the term 'water soluble paper' means any paper which, when water is applied to it, rapidly disintegrates and loses its characteristic as paper.

"(d) For the purpose of this section, possession of any record, notation, receipt, ticket, certificate, bill, slip, token, paper, writing, flash paper, or water soluble paper shall be presumed to be knowing possession thereof.

"(e) Any person who violates the provisions of subsections (a) or (b) of this section shall, upon conviction of each such offense, be fined not more than $1,000 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both."

TITLE V-AUTHORITY TO SEIZE MOTOR VEHICLES USED IN NARCOTICS VIOLATIONS

SEC. 501. Section 17 of the Uniform Narcotics Drug Act, approved June 30, 1960 (D.C. Code, sec. 33-423) is amended by inserting the subsection designation "(a)" immediately before the first word of such subsection and by adding the following new subsection:

"(b) Any conveyance, including an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel, which is used, or intended for use, in violating any provision of this Act shall be subject to seizure by any member of the Metropolitan Police force or the United States Park Police, or by the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia or any of his deputies, and any such conveyance so seized, regardless of its value, shall be proceeded against in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia by libel action brought in the name of the District of Columbia by the Corporation Counsel or any of his assistants, and shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, be forfeited to the District of Columbia and shall be made available for the use of any agency of the Government of the District of Columbia, or otherwise disposed of as the District of Columbia Council may, by regulation, provide, except that (a) no conveyance used by any person as a common carrier shall be forfeited under this Act unless it shall appear that the owner or other person in charge of such conveyance was a consenting party or privy to a violation of this Act; and (b) no conveyance shall be forfeited under the provisions of this section by reason of any act or omission established by the owner thereof to have been committed or omitted by any person other than such owner while such conveyance was unlawfully in the possession of a person other than the owner in violation of the criminal laws of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, or of any State. If there be any bona fide lien against the property so forfeited, the Government of the District of Columbia may make payment of such lien and retain the property, or the property shall be disposed of by public auction. The proceeds of the sale of such property shall be available, first, for the payment of all expenses incident to such forfeiture; and, second, for the payment of such liens; and the remainder shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia. To the extent necessary, liens against said property so forfeited shall, on good cause shown by the lienor, be transferred from the property to the proceeds of the sale of the property." TITLE VI-AUTHORIZE THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO MORE FULLY UTILIZE POLICE RESERVE CORPS VOLUNTEERS FOR ACTIVE POLICE DUTY

SEC. 601. (a) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter, "Commissioner") is authorized to select, organize, train, and equip as reserve police officers (hereinafter, "reserve officers") individuals who may volunteer for duty in connection with the policing of the District of Columbia: Provided, That the Commissioner shall, with respect to the selection of such reserve officers, establish such standards relating to personal character and physical and mental health, as will best insure the proper performance of their duties: Provided further, That such reserve officers shall be given such training in the use of firearms as the Commissioner deems appropriate to the performance of the duties to which they will be assigned. Reserve officers shall have such of the powers, and perform such of the duties of regular officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force of the District, as the Commissioner may vest in and impose upon them. Reserve officers shall serve without compensation, but otherwise shall be considered employees of the Government of the District of Columbia and members of the Metropolitan Police force for all purposes and under all

provisions of law except those relating to retirement, insurance, health benefits, veterans' preference, or any other law under which benefits are made available only to compensated employees of such government, unless otherwise provided in this title or in regulations adopted pursuant to this title. The provisions of the Act approved July 7, 1898 (30 Stat. 666; D.C. Code, sec. 1-215) or of any other law prohibiting the acceptance by the District of Columbia of volunteer services shall not apply to the acceptance of volunteer services of reserve police officers pursuant to this title.

(b) The District of Columbia Council is authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this title, including, without limitation, (1) provisions for suspension or dismissal of reserve officers, with or without trial, and (2) provisions prohibiting, permitting, regulating, and controlling the possession, carrying, and use by reserve officers of weapons (including firearms).

SEC. 602. (a) Reserve officers serving under the authority of this title shall be deemed to be employees of the District of Columbia for the purposes of eligibility under subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code (relating to compensation for work injuries), and any subsequent amendment thereto. Said subchapter shall apply and be administered by the Secretary of Labor in the same manner and to the same extent as if such reserve officer were a civil employee of the District of Columbia injured while in the performance of his duty: Provided, That for purposes of benefit computation under said subchapter, regardless of pay or status, such reserve officer shall be deemed to have had a monthly pay of one-twelfth of the current annual rate of basic compensation for a police private, class 1, subclass (a), in the Metropolitan Police force who had been employed for the same length of time that the reserve officer had been selected as a member of the reserve force.

(b) For the purposes of section 8116 (c) of title 5, United States Code, in determining the rights of all employees of the District of Columbia, including reserve officers under this title, the term "United States" shall be deemed to include the District of Columbia.

SEC. 603. The Commissioner is authorized to delegate any function vested in him by this title.

SEC. 604. Appropriations are hereby authorized to carry out the purposes of title.

TITLE VII-ISSUANCE OF MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS' PERMITS, WITHOUT COST, TO POLICE OFFICERS DRIVING POLICE VEHICLES IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

SEC. 701. Subsection (a) of section 7 of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, 1925, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 40-301 (a)), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph:

"(7) Any officer or member of any police force operating in the District of Columbia shall be issued, without charge, a permit to operate Governmentowned vehicles, including passenger vehicles, motorcycles and motor bicycles, while engaged in official business, upon the presentation of a certificate from the Chief of such police force or his delegatee to the effect that he is assigned to operate a Government vehicle and is qualified to drive, and upon proving to the satisfaction of the Director of Motor Vehicles that he is familiar with the Traffic Regulations of the District of Columbia."

TITLE VIII-AUTHORIZE PAYMENT FOR LABOR OF IMPRISONED PERSONS

SEC. 801. Section 1192 of the Act of March 3, 1901 (D.C. Code, sec. 24-412), is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1192. Persons sentenced to imprisonment in any facility of the Department of Corrections may be employed at such labor and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Commissioner. Payments for such labor in such amounts as the Commissioner may authorize may be made to such persons or to their dependents or for other purposes intended to provide innovative aid in their rehabilitation as the Commissioner deems proper."

TITLE IX-DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AUTHORIZED TO ADHERE TO INTERSTATE PAROLE AND PROBATION COMPACT

SEC. 901. As used in this title, the term "State" means any of the several States of the United States, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the District of Columbia, and the term "Governor" means the chief executive officer of any such jurisdiction.

SEC. 902. The Commissioner of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to execute a compact on behalf of the District of Columbia with any of the States legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows:

"A COMPACT

“Entered into by and among the contracting states, signatories hereto, with the consent of the Congress of the United States of America (4 U.S.C. 112) given to states (including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam and the District of Columbia) to enter into compacts for cooperative effort and mutual assistance in the prevention of crime and in the enforcement of their respective criminal laws and policies. "The contracting states solemnly agree:

"(1) That it shall be competent for the duly constituted judicial and administrative authorities of a state party to this compact (herein called 'sending state'), to permit any person convicted of an offense within such state and placed on probation or released on parole to reside in any other state party to this compact (herein called 'receiving state'), while on probation or parole, if

"(a) Such person is in fact a resident of or has his family residing within the receiving state and can obtain employment there;

"(b) Though not a resident of the receiving state and not having his family residing there, the receiving state consents to such person's being sent there.

"Before granting such permission, opportunity shall be granted to the receiving state to investigate the home and prospective employment of such person.

"A resident of the receiving state, within the meaning of this section, is one who has been an actual inhabitant of such state continuously for more than one year prior to his coming to the sending state and has not resided within the sending state more than six continuous months immediately preceding the commission of the offense for which he has been convicted. "(2) That each receiving state will assume the duties of visitation of and supervision over probationers or parolees of any sending state and in the exercise of those duties will be governed by the same standards that prevail for its own probationers and parolees.

"(3) That duly accredited officers of a sending state may at all times enter a receiving state and there apprehend and retake any person on probation or parole. For that purpose no formalities will be required other than establishing the authority of the officer and the identity of the person to be retaken. All legal requirements to obtain extradition of fugitives from justice are hereby expressly waived on the part of the states party hereto, as to such persons. The decision of the sending state to retake a person on probation or parole shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state: Provided, however, That if at the time when a state seeks to retake a probationer or parolee there should be pending against him within the receiving state any criminal charge, or he should be suspected of having committed within such a state a criminal offense, he shall not be retaken without the consent of the receiving state until discharged from prosecution or from imprisonment for such offense.

"(4) That the duly accredited officers of the sending state will be permitted to transport prisoners being retaken through any and all state parties to this compact, without interference.

"(5) That the governor of each state may designate an officer who, acting jointly with like officers of other contracting states, if and when appointed, shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to more effectively carry out the terms of this compact.

"(6) That this compact shall become operative immediately upon its execution by any state as between it and any other state or states so

executing. When executed it shall have the full force and effect of law within such state, the form of execution to be in accordance with the laws of the executing state.

"(7) That this compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon each executing state until renounced by it. The duties and obligations hereunder of a renouncing state shall continue as to parolees or probationers residing therein at the time of withdrawal until retaken or finally discharged by the sending state. Renunciation of this compact shall be by the same authority which executed it, by sending six months' notice in writing of its intention to withdraw from the compact to the other states party hereto."

TITLE X-INCREASE AUTHORITY OF PAROLE BOARD

SEC. 1001. Section 6 of the Act of July 15, 1932, entitled "An Act to establish a Board of Indeterminate Sentence and Parole for the District of Columbia and to determine its functions, and for other purposes" (D.C. Code, sec. 24–206), is amended by striking out "shall not" in the last sentence of the first paragraph and inserting in lieu thereof "may in the discretion of the Parole Board".

TITLE XI-PROHIBIT POSSESSION OF A KNIFE WITH UNLAWFUL

INTENT

SEC. 1101. Subsection (b) of section 14 of the Act approved July 8, 1932 (47 Stat. 650, 654; D.C. Code, sec. 22-3214(b)), relating to the possession of certain dangerous weapons, is amended by striking out "or knife with a blade longer than three inches" and inserting in lieu thereof "knife".

TITLE XII-TECHNICAL AMENDMENT

SEC. 1201. The second paragraph under the subheading "For Executive Office" of section 1 of the Act approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes" (32 Stat. 591; D.C. Code, sec. 22-702), is amended (a) by striking out "Commissioners" and inserting in lieu thereof "Commissioner" and (b) by striking out "them" and inserting in lieu thereof "him".

Mr. WATT. Because of the length of the bill, I will make my comments very brief on each of the titles. Representatives of those agencies affected by this legislation are with me today and available to answer any questions you may have.

Title I of S. 2209 prohibits the unauthorized use and possession of credit cards in the District. Under current law, the illegal use or possession of credit cards can only be prosecuted under statutes relating to forgery, false pretenses, larceny, robbery, or receiving stolen goods. The provisions of this bill are designed specifically to reach the rapidly expanding criminal use of credit cards, including the sale of stolen cards, a practice affecting consumers and businessmen alike. Fortynine States already have enacted similar legislation, and I believe stricter requirements are necessary in the District in order to deter the illegal use of credit cards.

Title II of the bill is concerned with the District's dealers in secondhand property. Existing law authorizes the District to license businesses which buy or sell second-hand personal property and such businesses must furnish the Police Department with daily reports on items which they obtain.

Because of these reporting requirements, large quantities of stolen property are recovered each year. Current law, unfortunately, does not cover those businesses, numbering approximately 25 to 30, which obtain possession of second-hand personal property as partial payment for the sale of new or rebuilt personal property.