Pub. L. 88-575, tit. I, sec. 102

Sec. 102. The rates of basic compensation of officers and members to whom the amendment made by section 101 of this title apply shall be adjusted in accordance with this section, and on and after the effective date of this title, section 2 of the Act approved October 24, 1962 (76 Stat. 1240), shall not apply to any such officer or member whose rate of basic compensation is so adjusted in accordance with this section. Such rates of basic compensation shall be adjusted as follows: (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), each officer and member receiving basic compensation immediately prior to the effective date of this title at one of the scheduled service or longevity rates of a class or subclass in the salary schedule in the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1958, as amended, shall receive a rate of basic compensation at the corresponding scheduled service or longevity rate in effect on and after the effective date of this title. (2) Each private in service step 6, longevity step 7, or longevity step 8 in any subclass in class 1, upon completing a minimum of twenty-one years of continuous service as a private, Including service in the Armed Forces of the United States but excluding any period of time determined not to have been satisfactory service, shall be advanced to longevity step 9 in class 1, and receive the appropriate scheduled rate of basic compensation for such step in the subclass in which he is serving.