Pub. L. 91-297, tit. II, sec. 203

Sec. 203. The first section of the Act entitled “An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to prescribe the area within which officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia may reside”, approved July 25, 1956 (D.C. Code, sec. A132a) is amended— (A) by inserting immediately after “(a)” the following: “except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section,”; (B) by striking out “, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section,” in the second sentence; (C) by striking out “twelve” and inserting in lieu thereof “twenty-five”; and (D) by amending subsection (b) to read as follows: “(b) For the purpose of this Act, the Chief of Police of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Chief of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, as the case may be, may in individual cases waive the requirement that an officer or member reside within the Washington, District of Columbia, metropolitan district.”