Highway Revenue Act. H.R. 10660. May 19561956 - 202 pages |
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additional allocation amended amount annual approximately Association authorized automobiles average Boggs bill buses cabs carriers cents a gallon CHAIRMAN Congress construction cost deficit diesel fuel ELLIS ending June 30 equipment estimated excise tax exemption expenditures Federal gasoline tax Federal highway Federal tax Federal-aid highway financing fiscal year ending FRANK CARLSON fuel tax Gore bill gross weight HARRY FLOOD BYRD highway program highway system highway trust fund highway users highway vehicles increased taxes Interstate System jobber June 30 liquefied petroleum gas logging manufacturers mileage miles million motor vehicle National nonhighway operation percent pounds proposed refund retail retreading RUTLAND Secretary HUMPHREY Senator BENNETT Senator KERR Senator LONG special motor fuels statement tax imposed tax increases tax on gasoline tax on tires taxicab industry tion tire dealer tires and tubes ton-mile trailers transportation tread rubber trucks United United States Senate urban
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Page 24 - If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 15 - Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provision, the reference shall be considered to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Page 8 - Act shall be paid wages at rates not less than those prevailing for the same type of work on similar construction in the immediate locality, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, in accordance with the Act of March 3, 1931, as amended, known as the Davis-Bacon Act (46 Stat.
Page 2 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise, to insure that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for supplies and services for the Government be placed with small business enterprises, and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of the Nation.
Page 17 - ... (A) such highway motor vehicle fully equipped for service, and (B) the semitrailers and trailers (fully equipped for service) customarily used in connection with highway motor vehicles of the same type as such highway motor vehicle...
Page 117 - My name is Otis H. Ellis. I am engaged in the general practice of law in Washington, DC, maintaining offices at 1001 Connecticut Avenue...
Page 22 - Fund as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States.
Page 22 - States then forming a part of the public debt; except that where such average rate is not a multiple of one-eighth of 1 per centum...
Page 2 - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of section 23 of the Federal Highway Act (42 Stat. 218), as amended and supplemented, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated (1) for forest highways the sum of $22,500,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and a like sum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1955...
Page 20 - ... (b) Local transit systems — (1) Allowance. If gasoline is used during any calendar quarter in vehicles while engaged in furnishing scheduled common carrier public passenger land transportation service along regular routes...