It is hereby declared to be the policy of the government of the United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and no money appropriated for charitable purposes in the District of Columbia shall be paid to any church or religious denomination, or to any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control.
(June 11, 1896, 29 Stat. 411, ch. 419, § 1; Mar. 3, 1897, 29 Stat. 683, ch. 387, § 1.)
1981 Ed., § 32-1207.
1973 Ed., § 32-1008.
Structure District of Columbia Code
Title 44 - Charitable and Curative Institutions
Chapter 7 - Hospitals, Asylums, Charities Generally
§ 44–701. Limitation on erection of hospital for contagious diseases
§ 44–702. Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium — Construction and equipping authorized
§ 44–703. Providence Hospital authorized to conduct hospital, clinic and school
§ 44–704. Standards of indigency; emergency and semi-indigent patients
§ 44–705. Payments to needy patients
§ 44–706. Institutional care under contract
§ 44–707. Stipends for patients and certain resident employees
§ 44–708. Benefits in lieu of salary for certain workers in District facilities
§ 44–709. Mayor to visit, investigate and report on certain charitable institutions
§ 44–710. Mayor authorized to visit, investigate and report on certain organizations
§ 44–711. Appropriations for charitable and reformatory institutions to be lien on property
§ 44–712. Terms of Congressmen as trustees or directors of certain corporations or institutions
§ 44–713. Compensation of physicians to the poor
§ 44–714. Conflicts of interest by directors or trustees of certain charitable institutions
§ 44–715. Congressional policy as to appropriations to churches or religious entities
§ 44–716. Home for Aged and Infirm — Sale of surplus products
§ 44–717. Home for Aged and Infirm — Admission of pay patients