§ 38-912. Driver education program; police officer and firefighter cadet programs.

Current through October 23, 2012

(a) The Board of Education is authorized, within the limits of appropriations therefor, to accept, on a loan basis, and to maintain and provide for insurance of motor vehicles, for use in the driver education programs of the public schools.

(b) There may be appropriated the funds necessary for the administration of comprehensive programs, established in consultation with the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Chief of the District of Columbia Fire Department, to train and educate students in the public schools to become police officers or firefighter cadets, which funds shall be available for transfer to the Board of Education at the request of the Board, should the Board determine that it will conduct these programs in the public schools.

(c) A student who is a resident of the District of Columbia and who successfully completes a curriculum established pursuant to this section shall be accorded a preference rating which shall be taken into consideration if the student applies for appointment to either the Metropolitan Police Department cadet program or the District of Columbia Fire Department cadet program.

                
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(Oct. 26, 1973, 87 Stat. 508, Pub. L. 93-140, § 20; Mar. 9, 1983, D.C. Law 4-172, § 3, 29 DCR 5745.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 31-2212.

1973 Ed., § 31-1119.

Legislative History of Laws

Law 4-172, "Police Officer and Firefighter Cadet Program Funding Authorization and Human Rights Act of 1977 Amendment Act of 1982," was introduced in Council and assigned Bill No. 4-421, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Education. The Bill was adopted on first and second readings on October 19, 1982, and November 16, 1982, respectively. Signed by the Mayor on December 8, 1982, it was assigned Act No. 4-254 and transmitted to both Houses of Congress for its review.