Title 5 — Police, Firefighters, Medical Examiner, and Forensic Sciences.

No annual increase in salary shall be paid to any person who, in the judgment of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, has not rendered satisfactory service, and any private who fails to receive such annual increase for 2 successive years shall be deemed inefficient and forthwit…

(a) For all pay computation purposes affecting employees covered by this act or the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1958, basic per annum rates of compensation established by this act or the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act of 1958, sha…

Under regulations promulgated by the Council of the District of Columbia, each officer and member of the Metropolitan Police force and of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, when he may be required to work on any holiday, shall be compensated for such duty, excluding…

As used in § 5-521.01, the word “holiday” means the following: The 1st day of January, the 3rd Monday in February, the 4th day of July, the last Monday in May, the 1st Monday in September, the 2nd Monday in October, the 4th Monday in October, Thanksgiving Day, the 25th day of Dec…

The provisions of this subchapter shall be applicable to the United States Park Police force under regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior.

(a) There is established as a special fund the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Overtime Settlement Fund (“Fund”), which shall be administered by the Office of the City Administrator in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. (b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this sub…

If funds deposited under § 5-525.01(b) are sufficient to fully satisfy the District’s obligations arising from the decision of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals inDistrict of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department v. District of Columbia Public Employee R…

(a) Except as provided in subsections (a-1) and (b) of this section, the annual rates of basic compensation of the officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia shall be fixed in accordance with the following schedule of…

The rates of basic compensation of officers and members in active service on the effective date of the District of Columbia Police and Firemen’s Salary Act Amendments of 1972 shall be adjusted as follows: (1) Each officer or member receiving basic compensation immediately prior t…

Each officer or member of the Metropolitan Police Force, including, notwithstanding any other law or regulation, each officer or member appointed pursuant to § 1-610.72, and United States Park Police force assigned on or after the effective date of the District of Columbia Police…

The aide to the Fire Marshal shall be included as a fire inspector in salary class 2.

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, all original appointments of police and fire privates shall be made at the minimum rate set forth in the schedule in § 5-541.01, and the 1st year of service shall be probationary. (b) Any officer or member of the …

(a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia, in the case of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, and the Secretary of the Interior, in the case of the United States Park Police force, are authorized to establish and determine, from time…

(a) Except as provided in paragraph (5) of this section, each officer and member, if he has a current performance rating of “satisfactory” or better, shall have his service step adjusted in the following manner: (1) Each officer and member in service step 1, 2, or 3 of salary cla…

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) or (c) of this section, any officer or member who is promoted or transferred to a higher salary class shall receive basic compensation at the lowest scheduled rate of such higher salary class which exceeds his existing scheduled …

Whenever any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police force, including, notwithstanding any other law or regulation, any employee appointed pursuant to § 1-610.72, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, or the United States Park Police force is changed or demoted fr…

(a)(1) In recognition of long and faithful continuous service, each officer and member in the active service on or after August 29, 1972, except for the Chief of Police and the Fire Chief, shall receive per annum, in addition to the rate of basic compensation prescribed in the sa…

(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the rates of basic compensation of officers and members of the United States Park Police shall be the same as the rates of compensation, including longevity increases, provided in this subchapter, for officers and…

[Repealed or reserved.]

Nothing contained in §§ 5-541.01 to 5-545.06 shall be construed to decrease the existing rate of compensation of any present officer or member, but when his position becomes vacant any subsequent appointee to such position shall be compensated in accordance with the rate of pay a…

The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to promulgate such regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the intent and purposes of §§ 5-541.01 to 5-545.06.

(a) Retroactive salary shall be paid by reason of §§ 5-541.01 to 5-545.06 only in the case of an individual in the service of the United States (including service in the Armed Forces of the United States) or the municipal government of the District of Columbia on August 1, 1958, …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Secretary of the Interior are hereby authorized to delegate, from time to time, to their designated agent or agents, any power or function vested in them by §§ 5-541.01 to 5-545.06, except those powers and functions vested in them by …

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized to change or suspend by resolution the provisions of §§ 5-541.01, 5-542.01, 5-542.02, 5-542.03, 5-543.01, 5-543.02, 5-543.03, 5-543.04, 5-543.05, 5-544.01, 5-545.01, and 5-545.03 insofar as they relate to officers and memb…

Repealed.

(a)(1) Effective on the first day of the 1st pay period beginning 6 months after December 21, 2000, the Secretary of the Interior shall fix the rates of basic pay for officers and members of the United States Park Police, in accordance with this subsection. (2)(A) Each officer an…

Beginning on December 21, 2000: (1) No existing special salary rates shall be authorized for members of the United States Park Police under section 5305 of title 5, United States Code (or any previous similar provision of law); and (2) No special rates of pay or special pay adjus…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000 or any provision of law amended by the Law Enforcement Pay Equity Act of 2000, no officer or member of the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division or the United States Park Po…