An Act to reorganize the governmental structure of the District of Columbia, to provide a charter for local government in the District of Columbia subject to acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia, to delegate certain legislative powers to the local government, to implement certain recommendations of the Commission on the Organization of the Government of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
PL 93-198 (S.1435), enacted 12/24/1973

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PUBLIC LAW 93-198-DEC. 24, 1973 
[87 STAT. 
December 24, 1973 
[S. 1435] 
District of 
Columbia Self-
Govemment and 
Governmental Re-
organization Act. 
Public Law 93-198 
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AN A C T 
To reorganize the governmental structure of the District of Columbia, to provide 
a charter for local government in the District of Columbia subject to acceptance 
by a majority of the registered qualilled electors in the District of Columbia, to 
delegate certain legislative powers to the local government, to implement 
certain recommendations of the Commission on the Organization of the Govern-
ment of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Refvesentatives of the 
United States of Amenca m Congress assembled, 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
TITLE I—SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 101. Short title. 
Sec. 1()2. Statement of puiiwues. 
Sec. 103. Deflnitions. 
TITLE II—GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION 
Sec. 201. Redevelopment Land Agency. 
Sec. 202. National t'apital Housing Authority. 
Sec. 203. National Capital Planning Commission and municipal planning. 
Sec. 204. District of Columbia Manpower Administration. 
TITLE III—DISTRICT CHARTER I>RBAMBLE, LEGISLATIVE POWER, 
AND CHARTER AMENDING PROCEDURE 
Sec. 301. District Charter preamble. 
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Sec. 302. Legislative power. 
Sec. 303. Charter amending procedure. 
TITLE IV—THE DISTRICT CHARTER 
PART A — T H E COUNCIL 
Subpart 1—Creation of the Council 
Sec. 401. Creation and membership. 
See. 402. Qualifications for holding office. 
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Sec. 403. Compensation. 
Sec. 404. Powers of the Council. 
Subpart 2—Organization and Procedure of the Council 
Sec. 411. The Chairman. 
Sec. 412. Acts, resolutions, and requirements for quorum. 
Sec. 413. Investigations by the Council. 
PART B — T H E 
MAYOR 
Sec. 421. Election, qualifications, vacancy and compensation. 
Sec. 422. Powers and duties. 
Sec. 423. Municipal planning. 
PART C — T H E 
JUDICIARY 
Sec. 431. .Judicial power.s. 
Sec. 432. Removal, suspension, and involuntary retirement. 
Sec. 433. Nomination and appointment of judges. 
Sec. 4.34. District of Coliun))ia Judicial Nomination Commission. 
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IWBLE OF CONTENTS- ('oDtimiHl 
I'AKT D—DlHTRK T BUDGET AND FiNANOIAL M A N AflKM KNI' 
Subpart l-Riulget and Finnndnl MnnngoniPiif, 
Soc. 441. Fiscal year. 
Sec. 44.2. Submission of annual budget. 
Sec. 443. Multlyear plan. 
Sec. 444. Multlyear capital Improvements plan, 
Sec. 445. District of Columbia courts' budget. 
Sec. 446. Enactment of appropriations by Congress. 
Sec. 447. Consistency of budget, accounting, and personnel syslcms. 
Sec. 448. Financial duties of the Mayor. 
Sec. 449. Accounting supervision and control. 
Sec. 450. General and special funds. 
Sec. 451. Contracts extending beyond one year. 
Sec. 452. Annual budget for the Board of Education. 
Subpart 2—Audit 
Sec. 455. District of Columbia Auditor. 
PART E—BOBROWING 
Subpart 1—Borrowing 
sec. 461. District's authority to issue and redeem genonil ohliyHiioii bomls for 
capital projects. 
Sec. 462. Contents of borrowing legislation. 
Sec. 463. Publication of borrowing legislation. 
Sec. 464. Short period of limitation. 
Sec. 465. Actsfor issuance of general obligation bonds. 
See. 466. Public sale. 
Subpart 2—Short-Term Bovrownip: 
Sec. 471. Borrowing to meet appropriations. 
Sec. 472. Borrowing in anticipation of revenues. 
Sec. 478. Notes redeemable prior to maturity. 
Sec. 474. Sales of notes. 
Subpart .'i- Payments of Bonds and Xotcs 
Sec. 481. Special tax. 
Subpart 4—Tax Exemption; Legal Investment; Water Pollntion: Resejvoirs; 
Metro Contributions; and Revenue Bonds 
Sec. 485. Tax exemption. 
Sec. 486. Legal investment. 
Sec. 487. Water pollution. 
Sec. 488. Cost of reservoirs on Potomac River. 
Sec. 489. District's contributions to the Washington MetropolitHn Area Ti-«nsit 
Authority, 
Sec. 490. Revenue bonds and other obligations. 
PART F—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
Sec. 491. Board of Elections. 
Sec. 492. Zoning Commission. 
Sec. 493. Public Service Commission. 
Sec. 494. Armory Board. 
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Sec. 495. Board of Education. 
TITLE V—FEDERAL PAYMENT 
Sec. 501. Duties of the Mayor, Council, and Federal OfBce of Management mid 
Budget. 
Sec. 502. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE VI—RESERVATION OF CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY 
Sec. 601. Retention of constitutional authority. 
Sec. 602. Limitations on the Council. 
Sec. 603. Budget process; limitations on borrowing and spending. 
Sec. 604. Congressional action on certain District matters. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued 
TITLE VII—REFERENDUM; SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT; TEMPO-
RARY PROVISIONS; MISCELLANEOUS; AMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT 
OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; AND 
EFFECTIVE DATES 
PART A—CHABTEB REFERENDUM 
Sec. 701. Referendum. 
Sec. 702. Board of Elections authority. 
Sec. 703. Referendum ballot and notice of voting. 
Sec. 704. Acceptance or nonacceptance of Charter. 
PART B—SUCCESSION IN 
GOVERNMENT 
Sec. 711. Abolishment of existing government and transfer of functions. 
Sec. 712. Certain delegated functions and functions of certain agencies. 
Sec. 713. Transfer of personnel, property, and funds. 
Sec. 714. Existing statutes, regulations, and other actions. 
Sec. 715. Pending actions and proceedings. 
Sec. 716. Vacancies resulting from abolishment of offices of Commissioner and 
Assistant to the Commissioner, 
Sec. 717. Status of the District. 
Sec. 718. Continuation of District of Columbia court system. 
Sec. 719. Continuation of the Board of Education. 
PART C—TEMPORARY PROVISIONS 
Sec. 721. Powers of the President during transitional period. 
Sec. 722. Reimbursable appropriations for the District. 
Sec. 723. Interim loan authority. 
PART D—MISCELLANEOUS 
Agreements with United States. 
Personal interest in contracts or transactions. 
Compensation from more than one source. 
Assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission in develop-
ment of District merit system. 
Revenue sharing restrictions. 
Independent audit. 
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Adjustments. 
Advisory neighborhood councils. 
National Capital Service Area. 
Emergency control of police. 
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Holding office in the District. 
Open meetings. 
Termination of the District's authority to borrow from the Treasury. 
PART E—AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT 
Sec. 751. Amendments. 
Sec. 752. District Council authority over elections. 
PART F — R U L E S OF CONSTRUCTION 
Sec. 761. Construction. 
PART G—EFFECTIVE DATES 
Sec. 771. Effective dates. 
TITLE I—SIIOKT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS 
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SHORT TITLE 
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SEC. 101. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Self-
Government and Governmental Reorganization Act". 
Sec. 
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Ses. 
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734. 
735 
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737. 
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740. 
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STATEMENT 
OF 
PURPOSES 
SEC. 102. (a) Subject to the retention by Congress of the ultimate 
legislative authority over the Nation's Capital granted by article I, 
section 8, of the Constitution, the intent of Congress is to delegate cer- ^ use prec. title 
tain legislative powers to the government of the District of Columbia: 
authorize the election of certain local officials by the registered 
qualified electors in the District of Columbia; grant to the inhabi-
tants of the Dist]"ict of Columbia powers of local self-government; 
to modernize, reorganize, and otherwise improve the governmental 
structure of the District of Columbia; and, to the greatest extent pos-
sible, consistent with the constitutional mandate, relieve Congress of 
the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters. 
(b) Congress further intends to implement certain recommenda-
tions of the Commission on the Organization of the Government of 
the District of Columbia and take certain other actions irrespective 
of whether the charter for greater self-government provided for in 
title IV of this Act is accepted or rejected by the registered qualified 
electors of the District of Columbia. 
DEFIXITIONS 
SEC. 103. For the purposes of this Act— 
(1) The term "District" means the District of Columbia. 
(2) The term "Council" means the Council of the District of Colum-
bia provided for by part A of title IV. 
(3) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Dis-
trict of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 
of 1967. 
(4) The term "District of Columbia Council" means the Council of 
the District of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan Num-
bered 3 of 1967. 
81Stat^948. 
(5) The term "Chairman" means, unless otherwise provided in this 
D.^^'code i"" 
Act, the Chairman of the Council provided for by part A of title IV. ^pp. 
(6) The term "Mayor" means the Mavor provided for by part B of 
title IV. 
(7) The term "act" includes any legislation passed by the Council, 
except where the term "Act" is used to refer to this Act or other Acts 
of Congress herein specified. 
(8) The term "capital project" means (A) any physical pubHc bet-
terment or improvement and any preliminary studies and surveys rela-
tive thereto; (B) the acquisition of property of a permanent nature; 
or (C) the purchase of equipment for any public betterment or 
improvement when first erected or acquired. 
(9) The term "pending", when applied to any capital project, 
means authorized but not yet completed. 
(10) The term "District revenues" means all funds derived from 
taxes, fees, charges, and miscellaneous receipts, including all annual 
Federal payments to the District authorized by law, and from the sale 
of bonds. 
(11) The term "election", unless the context otherwise provides, 
means an election held pursuant to the provisions of this Act. 
(12) The terms "publish" and "publication", unless otherwise 
specifically provided herein, mean publication in a newspaper of gen-
eral circulation in the District. 
(13) The term "District of Columbia courts" means the Superior 
Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court 
of Appeals. 
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STAT. 
(14) The term "resources" means revenues, balances, revolving 
funds, funds realized from borrowing, and the District share of Fed-
eral grant programs. 
(15) The term "budget" means the entire request for appropria-
tions and loan or spending authority for all activities of all agencies 
of the District financed from all existing or proposed resources and 
shall include both operating and capital expenditures. 
TITLE II—GOVERNMENTAL REOEGANIZATION 
60 Stat. 793. 
D.C. govern-
ment authority. 
Factfinding 
board. 
REDEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY 
SEC. 201. The District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 
(D.C. Code, sees. 5-701—5-719) is amended as follows: 
(a) Subsection (a) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5-703 
(a)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) The District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency is 
hereby established as an instrumentality of the District of Columbia 
government, and shall be composed of five members appointed by the 
Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as 
the 'Commissioner'), with the advice and consent of the Council of 
the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the 'Council'). 
The Commissioner shall name one member as chairman. No more than 
two members may be officers of the District of Columbia government. 
Each member shall serve for a term of five years except that of the 
members first appointed under this section, one shall serve for a term 
of one year, one shall serve for a term of two years, one shall serve for 
a term of three years, one shall serve for a term of four years, and one 
shall serve for a term of five years, as designated by the Commissioner. 
The terms of the members first appointed under this section shall begin 
on or after January 2,1975. Should any member who is an officer of the 
District of Columbia government cease to be such an officer, then his 
term as a member shall end on the day he ceases to be such an officer. 
Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the Agency shall be 
appointed to serve for the remainder of the term during which such 
vacancy arose. Any member who holds no other salaried public posi-
tion shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each da)^ such 
member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the 
agency." 
(b) Subsection (b) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5-703 
(b)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting after "forth" at the end of the first sen-
tence of such section ", except that nothing in this section shall pro-
hibit the District of Columbia government from dissolving the 
corporation, eliminating the board of directors, or taking such 
other action with respect to the powers and duties of such Agency, 
including those actions specified in subsection (c), as is deemed 
necessary and appropriate", and 
(2) bj^ striking out in the second sentence "including the selec-
tion of its chairman and other officers," and inserting in lieu 
thereof 
"including the selection of officers other than its 
chairman,". 
(c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new subsection: 
"(c) The Council is authorized, by act, to adopt legislation— 
"(1) establishing, for the purpose of assuring uniform proce-
dures relating to the disposition of complaints and other claims 
involving the Redevelopment Land Agency (or its successor) and 
other administrative units of the District of Columbia govern-
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ment, a factfinding board to receive, hear, and act on such 
complaints and claims arising out of or in connection with admin-
istrative and other actions of such Agency or units in carrying out 
their powers and functions; 
"(2) providing that all planning, designing, construction, and 
supervision of public facilities which are to be contributed to any 
redevelopment area as the local non-cash grant-in-aid to the proj-
ect under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, shall, to the extent 
es stat. 622. 
practicable, be carried out by an appropriate District of Columbia 
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department or agency on the basis of a contractual or other 
arrangement with the Redevelopment Land Agency or its 
successor; 
"(3) providing that any occupied rental property owned by 
the Agency shall be maintained by such Agency (or its successor) 
in a safe and sanitary condition; or 
"(4) providing that the Commissioner shall have authority to 
waive all or any part of any special assessments levied against 
abutting property owners for the cost of sewers, streets, curbs, 
gutters, sidewalks, utilities, and other supporting facilities or 
project improvements where the costs therefor to the District 
of Columbia can be applied as a non-cash local grant-in-aid, as 
defined by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.". 
(d) The first sentence of subsection (b) of section 5 of such Act 
(D.C. Code, sec. 5-704(b)) is amended to read as follows "Condemna- 
** ^*'*- ^87. 
tion proceedings for the acquisition of real property fof said purposes 
shall be conducted in accordance with subchapter I I of chapter 13 
of title 16 of the District of Columbia Code.". 
D.C. code le-
(e) None of the amendments contained in this section shall be con- ^ 
strued to affect the eligibility of the District of Columbia Redevelop-
ment Land Agency to continue participation in the small business 
procurement programs under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act 
(67 Stat. 547). 
72 stat. 389. 
(f) For the purposes of subsection 713(d), employees in the Dis- 
po^tf p. 819. 
trict of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency shall be deemed to be 
transferred to the District of Columbia as of the effective date of this 
title without a break in service. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL HOUSING 
AUTHORITY 
SEC. 202. (a) The National Capital Housing Authority (herein-
after referred to as the "Authority") established under the District 
of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act (D.C. Code, sees. 5-103—5-116) ,/|,fJ^^V,^30; 
shall be an agency of the District of Columbia government subject to 
the organizational and reorganizational powers specified in sections 
404(b) and 422(12) of this Act. 
(b) All functions, powers, and duties of the President under the 
District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act shall be vested in and exer-
cised by the Commissioner. All employees, property (real and per-
sonal), and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) 
of appropriations, allocations, and all other funds, and assets and lia-
bilities of the Authority are authorized to be transferred to the District 
of Cohimbia government. 
NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION AND MUNICIPAL PLANNING 
SEC. 203. (a) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled 
"An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and 
52 Stat. 1186. 
D.C. planning 
agency 
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playground systc^m of tlic Xational Capital", approved June 6, 1924 
lis^'^'t. 782; 
(j).(T. Code, sec. 1-1002), ai'e amended to read as follows: 
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"(a)(1) The National Capital Planning Commission (hereinafter 
Federal plan- 
referred to as the 'Commission') is created as the central Federal plan-
ning agency. 
^^^^^^ ageucj for the P^ederal Government in the National Capital, and 
to preserve the important historical and natural features thereof, 
except with respect to the United States Capitol buildings and grounds 
as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 
60 Stat. 718; 
193a, 193m), and to any extension thereof or additions thereto, or to 
^^D.cVcodeg- 
buildings and grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol. 
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"(^) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter 
referred to as the 'Commissioner') shall be the central planning agency 
Tor the government of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred 
to as the 'District") in the National Capital. The Commissioner shall 
be responsible for coordinating the planning activities of the District 
government and foi- prepai'ing and implementing the District elements 
of the comprehensive plan for the National Capital, which may include 
land use elements, urban renewal and redevelopment elements, a multi-
year program of public works for the District, and physical, social, 
economic, tr-anspoi-tatioii, and population elements. The Commis-
sioner's planning responsibility shall not extend to Federal or inter-
national projects and developments in the District, as detennined by 
the Commission, oi- to the United States Capitol buildings and grounds 
as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 
193a, 193m), or to any extension thereof or additions thereto, or to 
buildings and grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol. 
In carrying out his I'esponsibility under this section, the Commis-
sioner shall establish pi-ocedures for citizen participation in the plan-
ning process, and for- appropriate meaningful consultation with any 
State or local government or planning agency in the National Capital 
region affected by any aspect of a comprehensive plan (including 
amendments thereto) affecting or relating to the District. 
''(3) The Commissioner shall submit each District element of the 
compr-ehensive plan and any amendment thereto, to the Council for 
levision or modification, and adoption, by act, following public heai--
ings. Following adoptiou and prior to implementation, the Council 
shall submit each such element or- amendment to the Commission for 
review and comment with regard to the impact of such element or 
amendment on the intei-ests or functions of the Federal Establishment 
in the National (^apital. 
"(4) (A) The Commission shall, within sixty days after receipt 
of such a District element of the compr-ehensive plan, or amendment 
thereto, from the Council, cer-tify to the Comicil whether such element 
or amendment has a negative impact on the interests or functions of 
the Federal Establishment in the National Capital. If within such 
sixty days the Commission takes no action with respect to such element 
or amendment, such element or amendment shall be deemed to have 
no such negative impact, and such element or amendment shall be 
incorporated into the comprehensive plan for- the National Capital 
and shall be implemented. 
'" (B) If the Comruission finds, Avithin such sixty days, such negative 
impact, it shall certify its findings and r-ecommendations with respect 
to such negative impact to the Council. Upon receipt of the Commis-
sion's findings and recommendations, the Council may— 
"(i) r-eject such findings and recommendations and resubmit 
such element or amendment, in a modified form, to tlie Commis-
sion for r^econsideration; or 
"(ii) accei)t such findings and r-ecommendations and modify 
such elemenr or- amendment ac-cordinglv. 
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If the Council accepts such findings and recommendations and modi-
fies such element or amendment under clause (ii),_the Council shall 
submit such element or amendment to the Commission for it to deter-
mine whether such modification has been made in accordance with the 
Commission's findings and recommendations. If, within thirty^ days 
after receipt of the modified element or amendment, the Commission 
takes no action with respect to such element or amendment, it shall 
be deemed to have been modified in accordance with such findings or 
recommendations, and shall be incorporated into the comprehensive 
plan for the National Capital and shall be imj)lemented. If within 
such thirty days, the Commission again determines such element or 
amendment to have a negative impact on the functions or interests of 
the Federal Establishment in the National Capital such element or 
amendment shall not be implemented. 
"(C) If the Council rejects the findings and recommendations of 
the Commission and resubmits a modified element or amendment to 
it under clause (i), the Commission shall, within sixty days after 
receipt of such modified element or amendment from the Council, 
determine whether such modified element or amendment has a negative 
impact on the interests or functions of the Federal Establishment 
within the National Capital. If the Commission finds such negative 
impact it shall certify its findings (in sufficient detail that the Council 
can understand the basis of the objection of the Commission) and 
recommendations to the Council, and such element or amendment 
shall not be implemented. If the Commission takes no action with 
respect to such modified element or amendment within such sixty days, 
such modified element or amendment shall be deemed to have no such 
negative impact and shall be incorporated into the comprehensive 
plan and it shall be implemented. Any element or amendment which 
the Commission has determined to have a negative impact on the 
Federal Establishment in the National Capital, and which is sub-
mitted again in a modified form not less than one year from the 
day it was last rejected by the Commission shall be deemed to be a 
new element or amendment for purposes of the review procedure 
specified in this section. 
"(D) The Commission and the Commissioner shall jointly publish, cition^of'piin. 
from time to time as appropriate, a comprehensive plan for the 
National Capital, consisting of the elements of the comprehensive plan 
for the Federal activities in the National Capital developed by the 
Commission, and the District elements developed by the Commissioner 
and the Council in accordance with the provisions of this section. 
"(E) The Council may grant, upon request made to it by the Com- 
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mission, an extension of any time limitation contained in this section. autho^ritJ?^*°"' 
"(F) The Commission and the Commissioner shall jointly establish 
procedures for 
appropriate meaningful 
continuing 
consultation 
throughout the planning process for the National Capital. 
" (b) The National Capital Planning Commission shall be composed 
of— 
"(1) ex officio, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
Defense, the Administrator of the General Services Administra-
tion, the Commissioner, the Chairman of the District of Colum-
bia Council, and the chairmen of the Committees on the District 
of Columbia of the Senate and the House of Eepresentatives, or 
such alternates as each such person may from time to time desig-
nate to serve in his stead, and in addition, 
"(2) five citizens with experience in city or regional planning, 
three of whom shall be appointed by the President and two of 
whom shall be appointed by the Commissioner. The citizen mem-
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bers appointed by the Commissioner shall be bona fide residents 
of the District of Columbia and of the three appointed by the 
President at least one shall be a bona fide resident of Virginia 
and at least one shall be a bona fide resident of Maryland. The 
terms of office of members appointed by the President shall be for 
six years, except that of the members first appointed, the Presi-
dent shall designate one to serve two years and one to serve four 
years. Members appointed by the Commissioner shall serve for 
four years. The members first appointed under this section shall 
assume their office on January 2,1975. Any person appointed to fill 
a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the 
member whom he shall succeed. The citizen members shall each 
receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day such mem-
ber is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the 
Commission in addition to reimbursement for necessary expenses 
incurred by them in the performance of such duties.", 
(b) Subsection (e) of section 2 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. 
40 ^^*^'n»' 
Code, sec. l-1002(e)), is amended by (1) inserting "Federal activities 
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.^ ^j^^„ ijjjjjjgjjiately before "National Capital" in clause (1); and (2) 
striking out "and District Governments, and inserting in lieu thereof 
"government" in clause (2). 
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(c) Section 4 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1004), 
is amended as follows: 
(1) The first sentence of subsection (a) of such section is amended 
to read as follows: "The Commission is hereby charged with the dut^ 
of preparing and adopting a comprehensive, consistent, and coordi-
nated plan for the NationalCapital, which plan shall include the Com-
mission's recommendations or proposals for Federal developments or 
projects in the environs, and those District elements, or amendments 
thereto, of the compreliensive plan adopted by the Council and with 
respect to which the Commission has not determined a negative impact 
to exist, which elements or amendments shall be incorporated into 
such comprehensive plan Avithout change.". 
(2) The third sentence of subsection (a) of such section is amended 
by striking out "within the District of Columbia" and "or District". 
Repeals. 
(3) Subsectious (b) aiid (c) of such section are repealed. 
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^ ((I) Section 5 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1005), 
is amended as follows: 
(1) Subsection (c) of such section is amended to read as follows: 
"(c) The provisions of section 16 of the Act approved June 20,1938 
52 Stat. 802. 
(D.C. Code, sec. 5-428), are extended to include public buildings 
erected by any agency of the Government of the District of Columbia 
within the boundaries of the central area of the District, as such cen-
tral area may be defined and from time to time redefined by concur-
rent action of the Commission and the Council, except that the 
Commission shall transmit its approval or disapproval respecting any 
such buildinjS? within thirty days after the day it was submitted to 
the Commission.". 
Federal Gov- 
(2) The first aud sccoud sentences of subsection (e) of such section 
co"operItro^n."^'^^' ^^^ amended to read as follows: "It is the intent of this section to 
obtain cooperation and correlation of effort between the various agen-
cies of the Federal Government which are responsible for public 
developments and projects, including the acquisition of land. These 
agencies, therefore, shall look to the Commission and utilize it as the 
central planning agency for the Federal activities in the National 
Capital region.". 
Repeal. 
(e) Section 6 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1006) is repealed. 
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(f) Section 7 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1007) is amended to 
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read as follows: 
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"SEC. 7. (a) Tlie Commission shall recommend a six-year program 
of public works projects for the Federal Government which it shall 
review amnuilly with the agencies concerned. To this end, each Federal 
agency shall submit to the Commission in the fii-st quarter of each 
fiscal year a copy of its advance program of capital improvements 
within the National Capital and its environs. 
"(b) The Commissioner shall submit to the Commis-'sion, by Feb-
ruary 1 of each year, a copy of the multiyear capital improvements 
plan for the District develoi)ed by him under section 444 of the District 
of Columbia Self-Government and Govei-nmental Reoi'ganization Act. 
The Commission shall have thirty days within which to comment upon 
such plan but shall have no authority to change or disapprove of such 
plan." 
(g) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 8 of such Act of 
June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1008(a)), is amended to read as fol-
lows: "The Commission may make a report and recommendation to 
the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia, as provided in 
section 5 of the Act of March 1,1920 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-417), on pro-
posed amendments of the zoning regulations and maps as to the 
relation, conformity, or consistency of such amendments Avith the 
comprehensive plan for the Xational Capital." 
DIS'J'RICT OF COLUMBIA MAXI'OWKK ADMIMSTRATIOX 
SKC. 204. (a) All functions of the Seci'etai-y of Labor (hereafter 
in this section referred to as the "Seci-etary") under section 3 of the 
Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national 
employment system and for cooi)ei'ation with the States in the pro-
motion of sucli system, and for other purposes'', approved June 6, 
1983 (29 U.S.C. 49-49k), Avith respect to the maintenance of a public 
employment service for the District, are transfen-ed to the Commis-
sioner. After the effective date of this transfer, the Secretary shall 
maintain with the District the same relationship with respect to a 
l)iiblic employment service in the District, including the financing of 
such service, as he has with the States (with respect to a public 
em])loyment service in the States) generally. 
(b) The Commissioner is authorized and directed to establish and 
administer a public employment service in the District and to that end 
he shall have all necessary powers to cooperate wnth the Secretary in 
the same manner as a State under the Act of June 6, 1933, specified 
in subsection .(a). 
(c) (1) Section 3(a) of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the 
establishment of a national employment system and for coo])eration 
Avith the States in the promotion of such system, and for other pur-
poses", approved June 6,1933 (29 I"^.S.C. 49b (a)), is amended by strik-
ing out "to maintain a public employment service for the District of 
Cohimbia". 
(2) Section 3(b) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 49b(b)) is amended by 
inserting "the District of Columbia," immediately after "Guam,". 
(d) All functions of the Secretary and of tlie Director of Apprentice-
ship under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for voluntary appren-
ticeship in the District of Columbia", approved May 20, 1946 (D.C. 
Code, sees. 36-121—36-133), ai'e transferred to and shall be exercised 
by the Commissioner. The office of Director of Apprenticeship pro-
vided for in section 3 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 36-123) is abolished. 
(e) All functions of the Secretary under cliapter 81 of title 5 of the 
United States Code, with respect to the processing of claims filed by 
employees of the government of the District for compensation for work 
injuries, are transferred to and shall be exercised by the Commissioner, 
Public works 
projects. 
Multiyear cap-
ital improvements 
plan, submittal to 
Commission. 
Post, 
p. 800. 
66 Stat. 790. 
40 u s e 71g. 
52 Stat. 7<)8. 
48 Stat. 113; 
53 Stat. 1409; 
68 Stat. 665. 
Public employ-
ment service. 
70 Stat. 910. 
60 Stat. 204; 
84 Stat. 583. 
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effective the day after the day on which the District establishes an 
independent personnel system or systems, 
rl'er^*' °^ 
^^^ ®° much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended 
proper y. 
balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, 
held, used, available, or to be made available in connection -with func-
tions transferred to the Commisisoner by the provisions of this section, 
as the Director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget shall 
determine, are authorized to be transferred from the Secretary to the 
Commissioner. 
(g) Any employee in the competitive service of the United States 
transferred to the government of the District under the provisions 
of this section shall retain all the rights, benefits, and privileges per-
taining thereto held prior to such transfer. When such an employee 
vacates the position into which he was transferred, such position shall 
no longer be a position in such competitive service. 
(h) The first section of the Act of August 16, 1937 (29 U.S.C. 50 
et seq.) (relating to the welfare of apprentices) j is amended by insert-
ing at the end thereof "For the purposes of this Act the term 'State' 
shall include the District of Columbia.". 
50 Stat. 664. 
" S t a t e . " 
TITLE III—DISTKICT CHARTER PREAMBLE, LEGISLA-
TIVE 
POWER, 
AND 
CHARTER 
AMENDING 
PROCE-
DURE 
DISTRICT CHARTER 
PREAMBLE 
SEC. 301. The charter for the District of Columbia set forth in 
Post, p. 785. 
^^^|g j y gj^a^jj establish the means of governance of the District fol-' 
lowing its acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified electors 
of the District voting thereon in the charter referendum held with 
respect thereto. 
LEGISLATIVE 
POWER 
Post. pp. 813, 
gjj^_ 3Q2. Except as provided in sections 601, 602, and 603, the legis-
'^'** 
lative power of the District shall extend to all rightful subjects of 
legislation within the District consistent with the Constitution of the 
United States and the provisions of this Act subject to all the restric-
tions and limitations imposed upon the States by the tenth section of 
the first article of the Constitution of the United States. 
CHARTER AMENDING 
PROCEDURE 
SEC. 303. (a) The charter set forth in title IV (including any pro-
vision of law amended by such title), except sections 401(a) and 421 
(a), and part C of such title, may be amended by an act passed by 
the Council and ratified by a majority of the registered qualified 
electors of the District voting in the referendum held for such ratifica-
tion. The Chairman of the Council shall submit all such acts to the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Sen-
ate on the day the Board of Elections certifies that such act was ratified 
by a majority of the registered qualified electors voting thereon in such 
referendum. 
(b) An amendment to the charter ratified by the registered qualified 
electors shall take effect only if within thirty-five calendar days 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and days on which either 
House of Congress is not in session) of the date such amendment was 
submitted to the Congress both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent 
resolution, according to the procedures specified in section 604 of 
this Act, approving such amendment. 
D.C. Code 1-
1101 note. 
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785 
(c) The Board of Elections shall prescribe such rules as are neces-
sary with respect to the distribution and signing of petitions and the 
holding of elections for ratifying amendments to title IV of this Act 
according to the procedures specified in subsection (a). 
(d) The amending procedure provided in this section mavnot be 
^ 
used to enact any law or affect any law with respect to which the 
Council may not enact any act, resolution, or rule under the limitations 
specified in sections 601,602, and 603. 
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' 
814. 
TITLE IV—THE DISTRICT CHARTER 
PART A — T H E COUNCIL 
Subpart 1—Creation of the Council 
CREATION AND MEMBERSHIP 
SEC. 401. (a) There is established a Council of the District of ^f^bersl?"""*' 
Columbia; and the members of the Council shall be elected by the ""'"" °" ^' 
registered qualified electors of the District. 
(b) (1) The Council established under subsection (a) shall consist 
of thirteen members elected on a partisan basis. The Chairman and 
four members shall be elected at large in the District, and eight mem-
bers shall be elected one each from the eight election wards established, 
from time to time, under the District of Columbia Election Act. The 
69 stat. 699. 
term of office of the members of the Council shall be four years, except 
as provided in paragraph (3), and shall begin at noon on January 2 
of the year following their election. 
(2) In the case of the first election held for the office of member 
of the Council after the effective date of this title, not more than two 
of the at-large members (excluding the Chairman) shall be nominated 
by the same political party. Thereafter, a political party may nom-
inate a number of candidates for the office of at-large member of the 
Council equal to one less than the total number of at-large members 
(excluding the Chairman) to be elected in such election. 
(3) Of the members first elected after the effective date of this 
title, the Chairman and two members elected at-large and four of 
the members elected from election wards shall serve for four-year 
terms; and two of the at-large members and four of the members 
elected from election wards shall serve for two-year terms. The mem-
bers to serve the four-year terms and the members to serve the two-
year terms shall be determined by the Board of Elections by lot, 
except that not more than one of the at-large members nominated by 
any political party shall serve for any such four-year term. 
(c) The Council may establish and select such other officers and 
employees as it deems necessary and appropriate to carry out the func-
tions of the Council. 
(d)(1) In the event of a vacancy in the Council of a member elected 
from a ward, the Board of Elections shall hold a special election in 
such ward to fill such vacancy on the first Tuesday occurring more 
than one hundred and fourteen days after the date on which such 
vacancy occurs, unless the Board of Elections determines that such 
vacancy could be more practicably filled in a special election held on the 
same day as the next general election to be held in the District occur-
ring witliin sixty days of the date on which a special election would 
otherwise have been held under the provisions of this subsection. The 
person elected as a member to fill a vacancy on the Council shall take 
office on the day on which the Board of Elections certifies his election, 
vacancy 
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[87 STAT. 
and shall serve as a member of the Council only for the remainder of 
the term during which such vacancy occurred. 
Mayoral 
(2) In the evcnt of a vacancy in the office of Mayor, and if the Chair-
man becomes a candidate for the office of Mayor to fill such vacancy, 
the office of Chairman shall be deemed vacant as of the date of the filing 
of his candidacy. In the event of a vacancy in the Council of a member 
elected at large, other than a vacancy in the office of Chairman, who 
is affiliated with a political party, the central committee of such politi-
cal party shall appoint a person to fill such vacancy, until the Board 
of Elections can nold a special election to fill such vacancy, and such 
special election shall be held on the first Tuesday occurring more than 
one hundred and fourteen days after the date on which such vacancy 
occurs unless the Board of Elections determines that such vacancy 
could be more practicably filled in a special election held on the same 
day as the next general election to be held in the District occurring 
within sixty days of the date on which a special election would other-
wise be held under the provision of this subsection. The person 
appointed to fill such vacancy shall take office on the date of his 
appointment and shall serve as a member of the Council until the day 
on which the Board certifies the election of the member elected to fill 
such vacancy in either a special election or a general election. The 
person elected as a member to fill such a vacancy on the Council shall 
take office on the day on which the Board of Elections certifies his 
election, and shall serve as a member of the Council only for the 
remainder of the term during which such vacancy occurred. With 
respect to a vacancy on the Council of a member elected at large who 
is not affiliated with any political party, the Council shall appoint a 
similarly nonaffiliated person to fill such vacancy until such vacancy 
can be filled in a special election in the manner prescribed in this para-
graph. Such person appointed by the Council shall take office and serve 
as a member at the same time and for the same term as a member 
appointed by a central committee of a political party. 
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, at no 
time shall there be more than three members (including the Chair-
man) serving at large on the Council who are affiliated with the same 
political party. 
QUALIFICATIONS FOR HOLDING OFFICE 
SEC. 402. No person shall hold the office of member of the Council, 
including the office of Chairman, unless he (a) is a qualified elector, 
(b) is domiciled in the District and if he is nominated for election from 
a particular ward, resides in the ward from which he is nominated, 
(c) has resided and been domiciled in the District for one year immedi-
ately preceding the day on which the general or special election for 
such office is to be held, and (d) holds no public office (other than his 
employment in and position as a member of the Council), for which he 
is compensated in an amount in excess of his actual expenses in con-
nection therewith, except that nothing in this clause shall prohibit any 
such person, while a member of the Council, from serving as a delegate 
or alternate delegate to a convention of a political party nominating 
candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, or 
from holding an appointment in a Eeserve component of an armed 
force of the United States other than a member serving on active 
duty under a call for more than thirty days. A member of the Council 
shall forfeit his office upon failure to maintain the qualifications 
required by this section, and, in the case of the Chairman, section 
403(c). 
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787 
COMPENSATION 
SEC. 403. (a) Each member of the Council shall receive compensa-
tion, payable in periodic installments, at a rate equal to the maxi-
mum rate as may be established from time to time for grade 12 of 
the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5 of the United 
States Code. On and after the end of the two-year period beginning ^^^^^^ "^^ 
on the day the members of the Council first elected under this Act 
take office, the Council may, by act, increase or decrease such rate of 
compensation. Such change in compensation, upon enactment by the 
Council in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall apply 
with respect to the term of members of the Council beginning after 
the date of enactment of such change. 
(b) All members of the Council shall receive additional allow-
ances for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance 
of their duties of office as may be approved by the Council. 
(c) The Chairman shall receive, in addition to the compensation diSniTcompe'^n-
to which he is entitled as a member of the Council, $10,000 per annum, sation. 
payable in equal installments, for each year he serves as Chairman, 
but the Chairman shall not engage in any employment (whether as 
an employee or as a self-employed individual) or hold any position 
(other than his position as Chairman), for which he is compensated 
in an amount in excess of his actual expenses in connection there-
with. 
POWERS o r THE COUNCIL 
SEC. 404. (a) Subject to the limitations specified in title VI of this 
Act, the legislative power granted to the District by this Act is vest-
ed in and shall be exercised by the Council in accordance with this 
Act. In addition, except as otherwise provided in this Act, all func-
tions granted to or imposed upon, or vested in or transferred to the 
District of Columbia Council, as established by Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 3 of 1967, shall be carried out by the Council in accordance 
with the provisions of this Act. 
(b) The Council shall have authority to create, abolish, or organize 
any office, agency, department, or instrumentality of the government 
of the District and to define the powers, duties, and responsibilities 
of any such office, agency, department, or instrumentality. 
(c) The Council shall adopt and publish rules of procedures which 
shall include provisions for adequate public notification of intended 
actions of the Council. 
(d) Every act shall be published and codified upon becoming law 
as the Council may direct. 
(e) An act passed by the Council shall be presented by the Chair-
man of the Council to the Mayor, who shall, within ten calendar days 
(excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays) after the act is pre-
sented to him, either approve or disapprove such act. If the Mayor 
shall approve such act, he shall indicate the same by affixing his sig-
nature thereto, and such act shall become law subject to the provisions 
of section 602(c). If the Mayor shall disapprove such act, he shall, 
within ten calendar days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holi-
days) after it is presented to him, return such act to the Council setting 
forth in writing his reasons for such disapproval. If any act so passed 
shall not be returned to the Council by the Mayor within ten calendar 
days after it shall have been presented to him, the Mayor shall be 
deemed to have approved it, and such act shall become law subject to 
the provisions of section 602(c). If, within thirty calendar days after 
Transmittals 
an act has been timely returned by the Mayor to the Council with his 
disapproval, two-thirds of the members of the Council present and 
! • 
t 
81 Stat 
5 u s e 
D.C. C 
-app. 
Public 
ion. 
. 948. 
app. II. 
ode 
notifica' 
Ten-day legisi-
lative decision. 
to President. 
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[87 STAT. 
voting vote to reenact such act, the act so reenacted shall be trans-
mitted by the Chairman to the President of the United States. Subject 
Post, p. 814. 
to the provisions of section 602(c), such act, except any act of the 
Council submitted to the President in accordance with the Budget and 
31 u'sc 1
^
° 
Accounting Act, 1921, shall become law at the end of the thirty day 
period beginning on the date of such transmission, unless during such 
period the President disapproves such act. 
(f) In the case of any budget act adopted by the Council pursuant 
to section 446 of this Act and submitted to the Mayor in accordance 
with subsection (e) of this section, the Mayor shall have power to 
disapprove any items or provisions, or both, of such act and approve 
the remainder. In any case in which the Mayor so disapproves of any 
item or provision, he shall append to the act when he signs it a state-
ment of the item or provision which he disapproves, and shall, within 
such ten-day period, return a copy of the act and statement with his 
objections to the Council. If, wdthin thirty calendar days after any 
such item or provision so disapproved has been timely returned by the 
Mayor to the Council, two-thirds of the members of the Council present 
and voting vote to reenact any such item or provision, such item or 
provision so reenacted shall be transmitted by the Chairman to the 
President of the United States. In any case in which the Mayor fails 
to timely return any such item or provision so disapproved to the 
Council, the Mayor shall be deemed to have approved such item or 
provision not returned, and such item or provision not returned shall 
be transmitted by the Chairman to the President of the United States. 
Subpart 2—Organization and Procedure of the Council 
T H E 
CHAIRMAN 
SEC. 411. (a) The Chairman shall be the presiding officer of the 
Council. 
(b) When the Office of Mayor is vacant, the Chairman shall act in 
his stead. While the Chairman is Acting Mayor he shall not exercise 
any of his authority as Chairman or member of the Council. 
ACTS, RESOLUTIONS, AND REQUIREMENTS EOR 
QUORUM 
SEC. 412. (a) The Council, to discharge the powders and duties 
imposed herein, shall pass acts and adopt resolutions, upon a vote of a 
majority of the members of the Council present and voting, unless 
otherwise provided in this Act or by the Council. The Council shall 
use acts for all legislative purposes. Each proposed act shall be read 
twice in substantially the same form, wnth at least thirteen days inter-
vening between each reading. Upon final adoption by the Council 
each act shall be made immediately available to the public in a manner 
which the Council shall determine. If the Council determines, by a 
vote of two-thirds of the members, that emergency circumstances 
make it necessary that an act be passed after a single reading, or 
that it take effect immediately upon enactment, such act shall be 
effective for a period of not to exceed ninety days. Resolutions shall 
be used to express simple determinations, decisions, or directions of 
the Council of a special or temporary character. 
Special eiec- 
(^^ j ^ spccial electioii may be called by resolution of the Council to 
present for an advisory referendum vote of the people any proposition 
upon which the Council desires to take action. 
Quorum. 
(^^^ ^ majority of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the law-
ful convening of any meeting and for the transaction of business of 
the Council, except a lesser number may hold hearings. 
tlon 
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789 
INVESTIGATIONS BY THE COUNCIL 
SEC. 413. (a) The Council, or any committee or person authorized 
by it, shall have power to investigate any matter relating to the affairs 
of the District, and for that purpose may require the attendance and 
testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and other 
evidence. For such purpose any member of the Council (if the Council 
is conducting the inquiry) or any member of the committee may issue 
subpenas and administer oaths upon resolution adopted by the Council 
or committee, as appropriate. 
(b) In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena issued 
to, any person, the Council by resolution may refer the matter to the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, which may by order 
require such person to appear and give or produce testimony or books, 
papers, or other evidence, bearing upon the matter under investigation. 
Any failure to obey such order may be punished by such Court as a 
contempt thereof as in the case of failure to obey a subpena issued, or 
to testify, in a case pending before such Court. 
PART B — T H E MAYOR 
ELECTION, QUALIFICATIONS, VACANCY, AND COMPENSATION 
SEC 421. (a) There is established the Office of Mayor of the District ^ °fbi"h°L^tf °'' 
of Columbia; and the Mayor shall be elected by the registered qualified 
electors of the District. 
(b) Tlie Mayor established by subsection (a) shall be elected, on 
a partisan basis, for a term of four years beginning at noon on 
January 2 of the year following his election. 
(c) (1) No person shall hold the Office of Mayor unless he (A) is 
a qualified elector, (B) has resided and been domiciled in the District 
for one year immediately preceding the day on which the general or 
special election for Mayor is to be held, and (C) is not engaged in any 
employment (whether as an employee or as a self-employed indi-
vidual) and holds no public office or position (other than his employ-
ment in and position as Mayor), for which he is compensated in an 
amount in excess of his actual expenses in connection therewith, except 
that nothing in this clause shall be construed as prohibiting such 
person, while holding the Office of Mayor, from serving as a delegate 
or altei'nate delegate to a convention of a political party nominating 
candidates for President and Vice President of the United States, or 
from holding an appointment in a reserve component of an armed 
force of the United States other than a member serving on active duty 
under a call for more than thirty days. The Mayor shall forfeit his 
office upon failure to maintain the qualifications required by this 
paragraph. 
(2) To fill a vacancy in the Office of Mayor, the Board of Elections 
shall hold a special election in the District on the first Tuesday occur-
ring more than one hundred and fourteen days after the date 
on which such vacancy occurs, unless the Board of Elections deter-
mines that such vacancy could be more practicably filled in a special 
election held on the same day as the next general election to be held 
in the District occurring within sixty days of the date on which a 
special election would otherwise have been held under the provisions 
of this paragraph. The person elected Mayor to fill a vacancy in the 
Office of Mayor shall take office on the day on which the Board of 
Elections certifies his election, and shall serve as Mayor only for the 
remainder of the term during which such vacancy occurred. When the 
Office of Mayor becomes vacant the Chairman shall become Acting 
Mayor and shall serve from the date such vacancy occurs until the 
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[87 STAT. 
date on which the Board of Elections certifies the election of the new 
Mayor at which time he shall again become Chairman. While the 
Chairman is Acting Mayor, the Chairman shall receive the comjpensa-
tion regularly paid the Mayor, and shall receive no compensation as 
Chairman or member of the Council. While the Chairman is Acting 
Mayor, the Council shall select one of the elected at-large members or 
the Council to serve as Chairman and one to serve as chairman pro 
tempore, until the return of the regularly elected Chairman. 
(d) The Mayor shall receive compensation, payable in equal install-
ments, at a rate equal to the maximum rate, as may be established from 
time to time, for level I I I of the Executive Schedule in section 5314 
ga'stat* 8*63^°' 
^^ *
^
^
^
® ^ ^^ ^^^ United States Code. Such rate of compensation may be 
increased or decreased by act of the Council. Such change in such 
compensation, upon enactment by the Council in accordance with the 
provisions of this Act, shall apply with respect to the term of Mayor 
next beginning after the date of such change. In addition, the Mayor 
may receive an allowance, in such amount as the Council may from 
time to time establish, for official, reception, and representation 
•expenses, which he shall certify in reasonable detail to the Council. 
POWERS AND DUTIES 
SEC. -422. The executive power of the District shall be vested in the 
Mayor who shall be the chief executive officer of the District govern-
ment. In addition, except as otherwise provided in this Act, all func-
tions granted to or vested in the Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia, as established under Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 
l\f^^^'^^^^'„ 
1967, shall be carried out by the Mayor in accordance with this Act. 
The Mayor shall be responsible for the proper execution of all laws 
relating to the District, and for the proper administration of the 
affairs of the District coming under his jurisdiction or control, includ-
ing but not limited to the following powers, duties, and functions: 
(1) The Mayor may designate the officer or officers of the executive 
department of the District who may, during periods of disability or 
absence from the District of the Mayor execute and perform the 
powers and duties of the Mayor. 
(2) The Mayor shall administer all laws relating to the appoint-
ment, promotion, discipline, separation, and other conditions of 
employment of personnel in the office of the Mayor, personnel in execu-
tive departments of the District, and members of boards, commissions, 
and other agencies, who, under laws in effect on the date immediately 
preceding tlie effective date of section 711(a) of this Act, were subject 
to appointment and removal by the Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia. All actions affecting such personnel and such members 
shall, until such time as legislation is enacted by the Council super-
seding sucli laws and establishing a permanent District government 
merit system, pursuant to paragraph (3), continue to be subject to 
tlie provisions of Acts of Congress relating to the appointment, pro-
motion, discipline, separation, and other conditions of employment 
applicable to officers and employees of the District government, to 
section 713(d) of this Act, and where applicable, to the provisions 
of tlie joint agreement between the Commissioners and the Civil 
Service Commission authorized by Executive Order Numbered 5491 
of November 18. 1930. relating to the appointment of District per-
sonnel. He sliall appoint or assign persons to positions formerly 
occu])ied, ex-officio, by tlie Commissioner of the District of Columbia 
or by tlie Assistant to the Commissioner and shall have power to 
remove such persons from such positions. Tlie officers and employees 
of each agency with respect to Avliich legislative power is delegated 
5 u s e app. n. 
D.C. Code 1 
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791 
by this Act and wliicli immediately prior to the effective date of sec-
tion 711(a) of this Act, was not subject to tlie administrative control 
of the (""ommissioner of the District, sliall continue to be appointed and 
removed in accordance with applicable laws until such tnne as such 
law's may be superseded by legislation passed by the Council estab-
lishing a permanent District govermnent jnerit system pursuant to 
paragraph (8). 
(8) The Mayor shall administer the personnel functions of the Dis- 
Pe"onnei 
trict covering employees of all District departments, boards, commis-
sions, offices and agencies, except as otlierwise provided by this Act. 
Personnel legislation enacted by Congress prior to or after the effective 
date of this section, including, without limitation, legislation relating 
to appointments, promotions, discipline, separations, pay, unemploy-
ment compensation, health, disability and death benefits, leave, retire-
ment, insurance, and veterans' preference applicable to employees of 
the District government as set forth in section 714(c), shall continue 
^°^*' ^' ^^^' 
to be applicable until such time as the Council shall, pursuant to this 
section, provide for coverage under a District goverimient merit sys-
tem. The District government merit system shall be establi':hed by act 
of the Council. The system may pi-ovide for continued i^articipation 
in all or part of the F'ederal Civil Service System and shall provide 
for persons employed by the District govei'iiment immediately i)reced-
ing the effective date of such system personnel benefits, including 
but not limited to i)ay, tenure, leave, residence, retirement, health 
and life insurance, and employee disability and death benefits, all at 
least eq[ual to those i)rovided by legislation enacted by Congress, or 
regulation adopted pursuant thereto, and applicable to such officers 
and employees immediately prior to the effective date of the system 
established i)ursuant to this Act. The District government merit sys-
tem shall take effect not earlier than one year- nor later than five years 
after the effective date of this section. 
(4) The Mayor shall, through the heads of administrative boards, 
offices, and agencies, supervise and direct the activities of such boards, 
offices, and agencies. 
(5) The Mayor may submit drafts of acts to the Council. 
(6) The Mayor may delegate any of his functions (otliei* than the 
Delegation o
f 
function of approving or disappi'o\-ing acts passed by the Council or functions, 
the function of a])i)roving contracts between the District and the Fed-
eral Government under section 781) to any officer, employee, or agency 
P°'*> P- 822. 
of the executive office of the Mayor, or to any director of an executive 
department who may, with the approval of tlie Mayor, make a further 
delegation of all or a part of such functions to subordinates under his 
jurisdiction. 
(7) The Mayor shall appoint a City Administrator, who shall serve 
^"y Adminis-
at the pleasure of the Mayor. The City Administrator shall be the chief ^'entJ' "''^°*"*" 
administrative officer of the Mayor, and he shall assist the Mayor in 
carrying out his functions under this Act, and shall j)ei'for-m such other 
duties as may be assigned to him by the Mayor. The City Administrator 
shall be paitl at a rate established by the Mayor, not to exceed level IV 
of the Executive Schedule established under section 5315 of title 5 of 
the United States Code. 
sa^stfrsel^"' 
(8) The Mayor may propose to the executive or legislative branch 
of the United States Government legislation or other action dealing 
with any subject whether or- not falling within the authority of the 
District government, as defined in this Act. 
(9) The Mayor, as custodian thereof, shall use and authenticate the 
corporate seal of the District in accordance with law. 
(10) The Mayor shall have the right, under rules to be adopted by 
the Council, to be heard by tlie Council or any of its committees. 
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[87 STAT. 
Planning re-
sponsibility, 1 
tation. 
60 Stat. 71f 
81 Stat. 275. 
D.C. Code 
9-1 18, 9-132. 
(11) The Mayor is authorized to issue and enforce administrative 
orders, not inconsistent with this or any other Act of the Congress or 
any act of the Council, as are necessary to carry out his functions and 
duties. 
(12) The Mayor may reorganize the offices, agencies, and other 
entities within the executive branch of the government of the District 
by submitting to the Council a detailed plan of such reorganization. 
Such a reorganization plan shall be valid only if the Council does not 
adopt, within sixty days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holi-
days) after such i-eorganization plan is submitted to it by the Mayor, a 
resolution disapproving such reorganization. 
MUNICIPAL 
P L A N N I N G 
SKC. 423. (a) The jSIayor shall be the central planning agency for 
the District. He shall be responsible for the coordination of planning 
activities of the municipal government and the preparation and imple-
mentation of the District's elements of the comprehensive plan for the 
National Capital which may include land use elements, urban renewal 
and redevelopment elements, a multi-year program of municipal pub-
lic works for the District, and physical, social, economic, transporta-
tion, and i^opulation elements. The Mayor's planning responsibility 
shall not extend to Federal and international projects and develop-
ments in the District, as determined by the National Capital Planning 
Commission, or to the United States Capitol buildings and grounds 
as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 
193a, 193m), or to any extension thereof or addition thereto, or to 
buildings and gromids under the care of the Architect of the Capitol. 
In cai-rying out his responsibilities under this section, the Mayor shall 
establish procedures for citizen involvement in the planning process 
and for appropriate meaningful consultation with any State or local 
government or plainiing agency in the National Capital region affected 
by any aspect of a proposed District element of the comprehensive plan 
(including amendments thereto) affecting or relating to the District. 
(b) The JSIayor shall submit the District's elements and amend-
ments thereto, to the Council for revision or modification, and adop-
tion by act, following public hearings. Following adoption and prior 
to implementation, the Council shall submit such elements and amend-
ments thereto, to the National Capital Planning Commission for 
review and comment with regard to the impact of such elements or 
amendments on the interests and functions of the Federal Establish-
ment, as determined by the Commission. 
(c) Such elements and amendments thereto shall be subject to and 
limited by determinations with respect to the interests and functions 
of the Federal Establishment as determined in the manner provided 
by Act of Congress. 
PART C — T H E JUDICIARY 
District of 
Columbia Court 
of Appeals; Su-
perior Court of 
the District of 
Columbia, juris-
diction. 
J U n i C I A L POWERS 
SKC. 431. (a) The judicial power of the District is vested in the 
District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of the 
District of Columbia. The Superior Court has jurisdiction of any civil 
action or other matter (at law or in equity) brought in the District and 
of any criminal case under any law applicable exclusively to the Dis-
trict. Tlie Superior Court has no jurisdiction over any civil or criminal 
matter over which a United States court has exclusive jurisdiction 
pursuant to an Act of Congress. The Court of Appeals has jurisdiction 
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of appeals from the Superior Court and, to the extent provided by law, 
to review orders and decisions of the Mayor, the Council, or any 
agency of the District. The District of Columbia courts shall also 
have jurisdiction over any other matters granted to the District of 
Columbia courts by other provisions of law. 
(b) The chief judge of a District of Columbia court shall be desig- de'i^'nlti!?''*' 
imted by the District of Columbia Judicial Nominating Commission ** *'"^'""" 
established by section 434 from among the judges of the court in regu-
lar active service, and shall serve as chief judge for a term of four 
years or until his successor is designated, except that his term as chief 
judge shall not extend beyond the chief judge's term as a judge of a 
District of Columbia court. He shall be eligible for redesignation as 
chief judge. 
(c) A judge of a District of Columbia court appointed on or after 
the date of enactment of the District of Columbia Court Reorganiza-
tion Act of 1970 shall be appointed for a term of fifteen years subject 
D'^C ' c*ode' lote 
to mandatory retirement at age seventy or removal, suspension, or preJ. li-ioi. 
involuntary retirement jDursuant to section 432 and upon completion 
of such term, such judge shall continue to serve until reappointed or 
his successor is aj^pointed and qualifies, A judge may be reappointed 
as provided in subsection (c) of section 433. 
(d) (1) There is established a District of Columbia Commission on cJiimbia*com-
Judicial Disabilities and Tenure (hereinafter referred to as the "Ten- mission on jirdi-
ure Commission"). The Tenure Commission shall consist of seven ciai Disabuities 
members selected in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e). ^^EsTaTiish'ment. 
Such members shall serve for terms of six years, except that the mem-
ber selected in accordance with subsection (e)(3)(A) shall serve for 
five years; of the members first selected in accordance with subsection 
(e) (3) (B), one member shall serve for three years and one member 
shall serve for six years; of the members first selected in accordance 
M'ith subsection (e)(3)(C), one member shall serve for a term of three 
years and one member shall serve for five years; the member first 
selected in accordance with subsection (e)(3)(D) shall serve for six 
years; and the member first appointed in accordance with subsection 
(e)(3)(E) shall serve for six years. In making the respective first 
aijpointments according to subsections (e) (3) (B) and (e) (3) (C), the 
Mayor and the Board of Governors of the unified District of Columbia 
Bar shall designate, at the time of such appointments, which member 
shall serve for the shorter term and which member shall serve for the 
longer term. 
(2) The Tenure Commission shall act only at meetings called by the 
Chairman or a majority of the Tenure Commission held after notice 
has been given of such meeting to all Tenure Commission members. 
(3) The Tenure Commission shall choose annually, from among its 
members, a Chairman and such other officers as it may deem necessary. 
The Tenure Commission may adopt such rules of procedures not 
inconsistent with this Act as may be necessary to govern the business of 
the Tenure Commission. 
(4) The District government shall furnish to the Tenure Commis- iJomatiTn!^^ 
sion, upon the request of the Tenure Commission, such records, infor- availability'. 
mation, services, and such other assistance and facilities as may be 
iiecessary to enable the Tenure Commission properly to perform its 
functions. Information so furnished shall be treated by the Tenure 
Commission as privileged and confidential. 
(e)(1) No person may be appointed to the Tenure Commission 
unless he— 
(A) is a citizen of the United States; 
(B) is a bona fide resident of the District and has maintained 
an actual place of abode in the District for at least ninety days 
immediately prior to his appointment; and 
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A
W 93-198-DEC. 24, 1973 
[87 STAT. 
80 Stat. 378, 
948S 84 Stat. 775. 
Vacancies. 
Compensation. 
5 u s e 5332 
note. 
(C) is not an officer or employee of the legislative branch or of 
an executive or military department or agency of the United States 
(listed in sections 101 and 202 of title 5 of the United States 
Code); and (except with respect to the person appointed or desig-
nated, according to subsection (b) (4) (D)) is not an officer or 
employee of the judicial branch of the United States, or an officer 
or employee of the District government (including its judicial 
branch). 
(2) Any vacancy on the Tenure Commission shall be filled in the 
same manner is which the original appointment was made. Any per-
son so appointed to fill a vacancy occurring other than upon the 
expiration of a prior term shall serve only for the remainder of the 
unexpired term of his predecesor. 
(3) In addition to all other qualifications listed in this section, law-
yer members of the Tenure Commission shall have the qualifications 
prescribed for persons appointed as judges of the District of Columbia 
courts. Members of the Tenure Commission shall be appointed as 
follows: 
(A) One member shall be appointed by the President of the 
United States. 
(B) Two members shall be appointed by the Board of Gov-
ernors of the unified District of Columbia Bar, both or whom shall 
have been engaged in the practice of law in the District for at 
least five successive years preceding their appointment. 
(C) Two members shall be appointed by the Mayor, one of 
whom shall not be a lawyer. 
(D) One member shall be appointed by the Council, and shall 
not be a lawyer. 
(E) One member shall be appointed by the chief judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and 
such member shall be an active or retired Federal judge serving 
in the District. 
No person may serve at the same time on both the District of Columbia 
Judicial Nomination Commission and on the District of Columbia 
Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. 
(f) Any member of the Tenure Commission who is an active or 
retired Federal judge shall serve without additional compensation. 
Other members shall receive the daily equivalent at the rate provided 
by grade 18 of the General Schedule, established under section 5332 
of title 5 of the United States Code, while actually engaged in service 
for the Commission. 
(g) The Tenure Commission shall have the power to suspend, retire, 
or remove a judge of a District of Columbia court as provided in sec-
tion 432. 
REMOVAL, SUSPENSION, AND INVOLUNTARY RETIREMENT 
SEC. 432. (a) (1) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be 
removed from office upon the filing in the District of Columbia Court 
of Appeals by the Tenure Commission of an order of removal certi-
fying the entry, in any court within the United States, of a final judg-
ment of conviction oi a crime which is punishable as a felony under 
Federal law or which would be a felony in the District. 
(2) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall also be removed 
from office upon affirmance of an appeal from an order of removal 
filed in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals by the Tenure 
Commission (or upon expiration of the time within which such an 
appeal may be taken) after a determination by the Tenure Commis-
sion of— 
(A) willful misconduct in office, 
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(B) willful and persistent failure to perform judicial duties, 
or 
(C) any other conduct which is prejudicial to the administra-
tion of justice or which brings the judicial office into disrepute. 
(b) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be involuntarily 
retired from office when (1) the Tenure Commission determines that 
the judge suffers from a mental or physical disability (including habit-
ual intemperance) which is or is likely to become permanent and which 
prevents, or seriously interferes with, the proper performance of his 
judicial duties, and (2) the Tenure Commission files in the District 
of Columbia Court of Appeals an order of involuntary retirement and 
the order is affirmed on appeal or the time within which an appeal 
may be taken from the order has expired. 
(c) (1) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be suspended, 
without salary— 
(A) upon— 
(i) proof of his conviction of a cr-ime referred to in sub-
section (a)(1) which has not become final, or 
(ii) the filing of an order of removal under subsection 
(a)(2) which lias not become final; and 
(B) upon the filing by the Tenure Commission of an order of 
suspension in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. 
Suspension under this paragraph shall continue until termination of 
all appeals. If the conviction is reversed or the order of removal is 
set aside, the judge shall be reinstated and shall recover his salary and 
all rights and privileges of his office. 
(2) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be suspended from 
all judicial duties, with such retirement salary as he may be entitled, 
upon the filing by the Tenure Commission of an order of involuntary 
retirement under subsection (b) in the District of Columbia Court of 
Appeals. Suspension sliall continue until termination of all appeals. 
If the order of involuntary retirement is set aside, the judge shall be 
reinstated and shall recover his judicial salary less any retirement 
salary received and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges 
of his office. 
(3) A judge of a District of Columbia court shall be suspended from 
all or part of his judicial duties, with salary, if the Tenure Commis-
sion, upon concurrence of five members, (A) orders a hearing for the 
removal or retirement of the judge pursuant to this subchapter and 
determines that his suspension is in the interest of the administration 
of justice, and (B) files an order of suspension in the District of Colum-
bia Court of Appeals. The suspension shall terminate as specified in 
the order (which may be modified, as appropriate, by the Tenure 
Commission) but in no event later than the termination of all appeals. 
XOMIXATIOX AXD APPOINTMENT OF JUDGES 
SEC. 483. (a) Except as provided in section 434(d)(1), the Presi-
dent shall nominate, from the list of persons recommended to him by 
the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission established 
under section 434, and, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, appoint all judges of the District of Columbia courts. 
(b) No person may be nominated or appointed a judge of a District 
Qualifications. 
of Columbia court unless he— 
(1) is a citizen of the United States; 
(2) is an active member of the unified District of Columbia 
Bar and has been engaged in the active practice of laAv in the 
District for the five years immediately preceding his nomination 
or for such five years has been on the faculty of a law school in 
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[a7 STAT. 
the District, or has been employed as a lawyer by the r[nited 
States or the District of Columbia government; 
(3) is a bona fide resident of the District of Columbia and has 
maintained an actual place of abode in the District for at least 
ninety days immediately prior to his nomination, and shall retain 
such residency as long as he serves as such judge, except judges 
appointed prior to the effective date of this part who retain 
residency as required by section 1501(a) of title 11 of the District 
84 Stat. 491. 
of Columbia Code shall not be required to be residents of the 
District to be eligible for reappointment or to serve any term to 
which reappointed; 
(4) is recommended to the President, for such nomination and 
appointment, by the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination 
Commission; and 
(5) has not served, within a period of two years prior to his 
nomination, as a member of the Tenure Commission or of the 
District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission. 
Declaration of 
(c) Not less than three months prior to the expiration of his term of 
r^'ointmen?' '^" office, any judge of the District of Columbia courts may file with the 
appo n men . 
Xeuurc Commissiou a declaration of candidacy for reappointment. If 
a declaration is not so filed by any judge, a vacancy shall result from 
the expiration of his term of office and shall be filled by appointment as 
Written perform- provided ill subsections (a) and (b). If a declaration is so filed, the 
submuuno^pTe's- Teuure Commission shall, not less than thirty days prior to the 
ident. 
expiration of the declaring candidate's term of office, prepare and sub-
mit to the President a written evaluation of the declaring candidate's 
performance during his present term of office and his fitness for reap-
pointment to another term. If the Tenure Commission determines the 
declaring candidate to be exceptionally well qualified or well qualified 
for reappointment to another term, then the term of such declaring 
candidate shall be automatically extended for another full term, sub-
ject to mandatory retirement, suspension, or removal. If the Tenure 
Commission determines the declaring candidate to be qualified for 
reappointment to another tei'm, then the Pi-esident may nominate such 
candidate, in which case the President shall submit to the Senate 
for advice and consent the renomination of the declaring candidate 
as judge. If the President determines not to so nominate such declar-
ing candidate, he shall nominate another candidate for such position 
only in accordance with the provisions of subsections (a) and (b). 
If the Tenure Commission determines the declaring candidate to be 
nn<T[ualified for reappointment to another term, then the President 
shall not submit to the Senate for advice and consent the renomination 
of the declaring candidate as judge and such judge shall not be eligible 
for reappointment or appohitment as a judge of a District of Colum-
bia court. 
DISTIUCT OF COLUMlilA JUDICIAL NOMINATION 
COMMISSION 
me^m'beriSp?^"'' 
.J^i-'C;- ^^^- (a) Tlierc is established for the District of Columbia the 
District of Cohunbia Judicial Nomination Commission (hereafter in 
this section referred to as the "Commission"). The Commission shall 
consist of seven members selected in accordance with the provisions 
of subsection (b). Such members shall serve for terms of six years, 
except that the member selected in accordance with subsection (b) 
(4) (A) shall serve for five vears; of the members first selected in 
accordance with subsection (b)(4)(B), one member shall serve for 
three years and one member shall serve for six years; of the members 
first selected in accordance with subsection (b) (4) (C), one member 
shall sei-\e for a term of three years and one member shall serve for 
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797 
five years; the member first selected in accordance with subsection 
(b) (4) (D) shall serve for six years; and the member first appointed 
in accordance with subsection (b) (4) (E) shall serve for six years. 
In making the respective first appointments according to subsections 
(b) (4) (B) and (b) (4) (C), the Mayor and the Board of Governors 
of the unified District of Columbia Bar shall designate, at the time 
of such appointments, which member shall serve for the shorter term 
and which member shall serve for the longer term. 
(b) (1) No person may be appointed to the Commission unless he— 
Qualifications. 
(A) is a citizen of the United States; 
(B) is a bona fide resident of the District and has maintained 
an actual place of abode in the District for at least 90 days imme-
diately prior to his appointment; and 
(C) is not a member, officer, or employee of the legislative 
branch or of an executive or military department or agency of the 
United States (listed in sections 101 and 202 of title 5 of the 
United States Code); and (except with respect to the person g^|° ^*^*- ^^*' . 
appointed or designated according to subsection (b)(4)(I))) is 
' 
not an officer or employee of the judicial branch of the United 
States, or an officer or employee of the District government 
(including its judicial branch). 
(2) Any vacancy on the Commission shall be filled in the same 
manner in which the original appointment was made. Any person so 
appointed to fill a vacancy occurring other than upon the expiration 
of a prior term shall serve only for the remainder of the unexpired 
term of his predecessor. 
(3) It shall be the function of the Commission to submit nominees 
for appointment to positions as judges of the District of Columbia 
courts in accordance with section 433 of this Act. 
(4) In addition to all other qualifications listed in this section, law-
yer members of the Commission shall have the qualifications pre-
scribed for persons appointed as judges for the District of Columbia 
courts. Members of the Commission shall be appointed as follows: 
(A) One member shall be appointed by the President of the 
United States. 
(B) Two members shall be appointed by the Board of Gov-
ernors of the unified District of Columbia Bar, both of whom 
shall have been engaged in the practice of law in the District for 
at least five successive years preceding their appointment. 
(C) Two members shall be appointed by the Mayor, one of 
whom shall not be a lawyer. 
(D) One member shall be appointed by the Council, and shall 
not be a lawyer. 
(E) One member shall be appointed by the chief judge of the 
United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and 
such member shall be an active or retired Federal judge serving 
in the District. 
(5) Any member of the Commission who is an active or retired 
compensation. 
Federal judge shall serve without additional compensation. Other 
members shall receive the daily equivalent at the rate provided by 
^rade 18 of the General Schedule, established under section 5382 of 
title 5 of the United States Code, while actuallv engaged in service 
! ^^^ ^^^^ 
« 
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/^ 
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. 
v' 
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note. 
for tne Commission. 
(c)(1) The Commission shall act only at meetings called by the 
Chairman or a majority of the Commission held after notice has been 
given of such meeting to all Commission members. 
(2) The Commission shall choose annually, from among its mem-
bers, a Chairman, and such other officers as it may deem necessary. 
The Commission may adopt such rules of procedures not inconsistent 
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[87 STAT. 
with this Act as may be necessary to govern the business of the 
Commission. 
Confidential 
(3) ^he Distiict govemment shall furnish to the Commission, upon 
L
" a'liabiiitjr'. 
the request of the Commission, such records, information, services, and 
such other assistance and facilities as may be necessary to enable the 
Commission properly to perform its function. Information so fur-
nished shall be treated by the Commission as privileged and 
confidential. 
(d) (1) In the event of a vacancy in any position of the judge of a 
District of Columbia court, the Commission shall, within thirty days 
following the occurrence of such vacancy, submit to the President, for 
possible nomination and appointment, a list of three persons for each 
vacancy. If more than one vacancy exists at one given time, the Com-
mission must submit lists in which no person is named more than once 
and the President may select more than one nominee from one list. 
Whenever a vacancy will occur by reason of the expiration of such a 
judge's term of office, the Commission's list of nominees shall be sub-
mitted to the President not less than thirty days prior to the occur-
rence of such vacancy. In the event the President fails to nominate, 
for Senate confirmation, one of the persons on the list submitted to 
him under this section within sixty days after receiving such list, the 
Commission shall nominate, and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate, appoint one of those persons to fill the vacancy for which such 
list was originally submitted to the President. 
(2) In the event any person recommended by the Commission to 
the President requests that his recommendation be withdrawn, dies, 
or in any other way becomes disqualified to serve as a judge of the 
District of Columbia courts, the Commission shall promptly recom-
mend to the President one person to replace the person originally 
recommended. 
(3) In no instance shall the Commission recommend any person, who 
in the event of timely nomination following a recommendation by the 
Commission, does not meet, ui)on such nomination, the qualifications 
si)ecified in section 433. 
P A U T I)—DiSTKICT BuiXJKT AXD FINANCIAL ^MANAGEMENT 
Subpart 1—Budget and Financial Management 
FISCAL YEAR 
SEC. 4-11. The fiscal year of the District shall begin on the first day 
of July and shall end on the thirtieth day of June of the succeeding 
calendar year. Such fiscal year shall also constitute the budget and 
accounting year. 
SLBMISSION o r ANNUAL BUDGET 
SEC. 442. (a) At such time as the Council may direct, the Mayor 
shall piepare and submit to the Council each year, and make available 
to the public, an annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-
ment which shall include— 
(1) the budget for the forthcoming fiscal year in such detail 
as the Mayor determines necessary to reflect the actual financial 
condition of the District government for such fiscal year, and 
specify the agencies and purposes for which funds are being 
requested; and which shall be prepared on the assumption that 
proposed expenditures resulting from financial transactions under-
taken on either an obligation or cash-outlay basis, for such fiscal 
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year shall not exceed estimated resources from existing sources 
and proposed resources; 
(2) an annual budget message which shall include supporting 
financial and statistical information on the budget for the forth-
coming fiscal year and information on the approved budgets and 
expenditures for the immediately preceding three fiscal years; 
(3) a multiyear plan for all agencies of the District govern-
ment as required under section 443; 
(4) a multiyear capital improvements plan for all agencies of 
the District govenment as required under section 444 ; 
(5) a program performance report comparing actual perform-
ance of as many programs as is practicable for the last completed 
fiscal year a^^ainst proposed goals for such programs for such year, 
and, in addition, presentinj^ as many qualitative or quantitative 
measures of program effectiveness as possible (including results 
of statistical sampling or other special analyses), and indicating 
the status of efforts to comply with the reports of the District of 
Columbia Auditor and the Comptroller General of the United 
States; 
(6) an issue analysis statement consisting of a reasonable num-
ber of issues, identified by the Council in its action on the budget 
in the preceding fiscal year, having significant revenue or budg-
etary implications, and other similar issues selected bjr the Mayor, 
which shall consider the cost and benefits of alternatives and the 
rationale behind action recommended or adopted; and 
(7) a summary of the budget for the forthcoming fiscal year 
designed for distribution to the general public. 
(b) The budget prepared and submitted by the Mayor shall include, 
but not be limited to, recommended expenditures at a reasonable level 
for the forthcoming fiscal year for the Council, the District of Colum-
bia Auditor, the District or Columbia Board of Elections, the District 
of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission, the Zoning Commis-
sion of the District of Columbia, the Public Service Commission, the 
Armory Board, and the Commission on Judicial Disabilities and 
Tenure. 
(c) The Mayor from time to time may prepare and submit to the supplemental 
Council such proposed supplemental or deficiency budget recom- mendat "nsTsub-
mendations as in his judgment are necessary on account of laws enacted mittai to council, 
after transmission o^ the budget or are otherwise in the public interest. 
The Mayor shall submit with such proposals a statement of justifica-
tions, including reasons for their omission from the annual budget. 
Whenever such proposed supplemental or deficiency budget recom-
mendations are in an amount which would result in expenditures in 
excess of estimated resources, the Mayor shall make such recommenda-
tions as are necessary to increase resources to meet such increased 
expenditures. 
MULTIYEAR PLAN 
SEO. 443. The Mayor shall prepare and include in the annual 
budget a multiyear plan for all agencies included in the District 
budget, for all sources of funding, and for such program categories as 
the Mayor identifies. Such plan shall be based on the actual experience 
of the immediately preceding three fiscal years, on the approved cur-
rent fiscal year budget, and on estimates for at least the four succeed-
ing 
fiscal 
years. The plan shall include, but not be limited to, provisions 
identifying— 
(1) future cost implications of maintaining programs at cur-
rently authorized levels, including anticipated changes in wage, 
salary, and benefit levels; 
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(2) future cost implications of all capital projects for which 
funds have already been authorized, including identification of 
the amount of already appropriated but unexpended capital proj-
ect funds; 
(3) future cost implications of new, improved, or expanded 
programs and capital project commitments proposed for each of 
the succeeding four fiscal years; 
(4) the effects of current and proposed capital projects on 
future operating budget requirements; 
(5) revenues and funds likely to be available from existing 
revenue sources at current rates or levels; 
(6) the specific revenue and tax measures recommended for 
the forthcoming fiscal year and for the next following fiscal year 
necessary to balance revenues and expenditures; 
(7) the actuarial status and anticipated costs and revenues of 
retirement systems covering District employees; and 
(8) total debt service payments in each fiscal year in which debt 
service payments must be made for all bonds which have been or 
will be issued, and all loans from the United States Treasury which 
have been or will be received, to finance the total cost on a full 
funding basis of all projects listed in the capital improvements 
plan prepared under section 444; and for each such fiscal year, the 
percentage relationship of the total debt service payments (with 
payments for issued and proposed bonds and loans from the 
United States Treasury, received or proposed, separately iden-
tified) to the bonding limitation for the current and forthcoming-
fiscal year as specified in section 603 (b). 
MULTIYEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS 
PLAN 
SEC. 444. The Mayor shall prepare and include in the annual 
budget a multiyear capital improvements plan for all agencies of the 
District which shall be based upon the approved current fiscal year 
budget and shall include— 
(1) the status, estimated period of usefulness, and total cost 
of each capital project on a full funding basis for which any 
appropriation is requested or any expenditure will be made in 
the forthcoming fiscal year and at least four fiscal years there-
after, including an explanation of change in total cost in excess 
of 5 per centum for any capital project included in the plan of 
the previous fiscal year; 
(2) an analysis of the plan, including its relationship to other 
programs, proposals, or elements developed by the Mayor as the 
central planning agency for the District pursuant to section 423 
of this Act; 
(3) identification of the years and amounts in which bonds 
would have to be issued, loans made, and costs actually incurred 
on each capital project identified; and 
(4) appropriate maps or other graphics. 
DISTRICT o r COLUMBIA COURTs' BUDGET 
SEC. 445. The District of Columbia courts shall prepare and annually 
submit to the Mayor, for inclusion in the annual budget, annual 
estimates of the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the 
maintenance and operation of the District of Columbia court system. 
All such estimates shall be forwarded by the Mayor to the Council, for 
its action pursuant to sections 446 and 603(c), without revision but 
subject to his recommendations. Notwithstanding any other provision 
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of this Act, the Council may comment or make recommendations con-
cerning such annual estimates involving the expenditures and appro-
priations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the District 
of Columbia court system submitted by such courts but shall have no 
authority under this Act to revise such estimates. The courts shall sub- 
,' 
mit as j)art of their budgets both a multiyear plan and a multiyear 
capital improvements plan and shall submit a statement presenting 
qualitative and quantitative descriptions of court activities and the 
status of efforts to comply with reports of the District of Columbia 
Auditor and the Comptroller General of the United States. 
ENACTMENT OF xVPPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS 
SEC. M 6 . The Council, within fifty calendar days after receipt of 
the budget proposal from the Mayor, and after public hearing, shall 
by act adopt the annual budget for the District of Columbia govern-
ment. Any supplements thereto shall also be adopted by act by the 
Council after public hearing. Such budget so adopted shall be sub-
mitted by the Mayor to the President for transmission by him to the 
Congress. No amount may be obligated or expended by any officer 
or employee of the District of Columbia government unless such 
amount has been approved by Act of Congress, and then only accord-
ing to such Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Mayor shall not transmit any annual budget or amendments or supple-
ments thereto, to the President of the United States until the comple-
tion of the budget procedures contained in this Act. 
C O N S I S T E N C Y O F BUDGET, ACCOUNTING, AND PERSONNEL SYSTEMS 
SEC. 447. The Mayor shall implement appropriate procedures to 
insure that budget, accounting, and personnel control systems and 
structures are synchronized for budgeting and control purposes on a 
continuing basis. No employee shall be hired on a full-time or part-
time basis 'unless such position is authorized by Act of Congress. 
p]mployees shall be assigned in accordance with the program, organiza-
tion, and fund categories specified in the Act of Congress authorizing 
such position. Hiring of temporary employees and 
temporary 
employee transfers among pT-ograms shall be consistent with appli-
cable Acts of Congress and reprogramming procedures to insure that 
costs are accurately associated with programs and sources of funding. 
FINANCIAL DUTIES OF THE MAYOR 
SEC. 448. Subject to the limitations in section 608, the Mayor shall 
have charge of the administration of the financial affairs of the District 
!ind to that end he shall— 
(1) supervise and be responsible for all financial transactions 
to insure adequate control of revenues and resources and to insure 
tliat appropriations are not exceeded; 
(2) maintain systems of accounting and internal control 
designed to provide— 
(A) full disclosure of the financial results of the District 
government's acti 
v 
i 
ties, 
(B) adequate financial information needed by the Dis-
trict government for management purposes, 
(C) effective control over and accountability for all funds, 
prouerty. and other assets, 
(D) reliable accounting results to serve as the basis for 
pi-eparing and supportingf agency budget requests and con-
trolling the execution of tlie budget ; 
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(3) submit to the Council a financial statement in any detail 
and at such times as the Council may specify; 
(4) submit to the Council, by November 1 of each fiscal year, a 
complete financial statement and report for the preceding fiscal 
year; 
(5) supervise and be responsible for the assessment of all 
property subject to assessment and special assessments within 
the corporate limits of the District for taxation, prepare tax 
maps, and give such notice of taxes and special assessments, as 
may be required by law; 
(6) supervise and be responsible for the levying and collection 
of all taxes, special assessments, license fees, and other revenues 
of the District, as required by law, and receive all moneys receiv-
able by the District from the Federal Government or from any 
court, agency, or instrumentality of the District; 
(7) have custody of all public funds belonging to or imder the 
control of the District, or any agency of the District government, 
and deposit all funds coming into his hands, in such depositories 
as may be designated and under such terms and conditions as may 
be prescribed by act of the Council; 
(8) have custody of all investments and invested funds of the 
District government, or in possession of such government in a 
fiduciary capacity, and have the safekeeping of all bonds and 
notes of the District and the receipt and delivery of District bonds 
and notes for transfer, registration or exchange; and 
(9) apportion the total of all appropriations and funds made 
available during the fiscal year for obligation so as to prevent 
obligation or expenditure thereof in a manner which would indi-
cate a necessity for deficiency or supplemental appropriations 
for such fiscal year, and with respect to all appropriations or 
funds not limited to a definite period, and all authorizations to 
create obligations by contract in advance of appropriations, 
apportion the total of such appropriations or funds or author-
izations so as to achieve the most effective and economical use 
thereof. 
ACCOUNTING SUPERVISION AND CONTROL 
SEC. 449. The Mayor shall— 
(a) prescribe the forms of receipts, vouchers, bills and claims 
to be used by all the agencies, offices, and instrumentalities of the 
District government; 
(b) examine and approve all contracts, orders, and other docu-
ments by which the District government incurs financial obliga-
tions, having previously ascertained that money has been 
appropriated and allotted and will be available when the obli-
gations shall become due and payable; 
(c) audit and approve before payment all bills, invoices, pay-
rolls, and other evidences of claims, demands, or charges against 
the District government and with the advice of the legal officials 
of the District determine the regularity, legality, and correctness 
of such claims, demands, or charges; and 
(d) perform internal audits of accounts and operations and 
agency records of the District government, including the exami-
nation of any accounts or records of financial transactions, giving 
due consideration to the effectiveness of accounting systems, inter-
nal control, and related administrative practices of the respective 
agencies. 
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GENERAL AND SPECIAL FUNDS 
SEC. 450. The general fund of the District shall be composed of 
those District revenues which on the effective date of this title are 
paid into the Treasury of the United States and credited either to 
the general fund of the District or its miscellaneous receipts, but shall 
not include any revenues which are applied by law to any special 
fund existing on the date of enactment of this title. The Council may 
from time to time establish such additional special funds as may be 
necessary for the efficient operation of the government of the District. 
All money i-eceived by any agency, officer, or employee of the District 
in its or his official capacity shall belong to the District government 
and shall be paid promptly to the Mayor for deposit in the appropriate 
fund. 
CONTRACTS EXTENDING BEYOND ONE YEAR 
SEC. 451. No contract involving expenditures out of an appropria-
tion which is available for more than one year shall be made for a 
period of more than five years unless, with respect to a particular con-
tract, the Council, by a two-thirds vote of its members present and 
voting, authorizes the extension of such period for such contract. Such 
contracts shall be made pursuant to criteria established by act of the 
Council. 
A N N U A L BUDGET FOR T H E BOARD OF EDUCATION 
SEC. 452. With respect to the annual budget for the Board of Edu-
cation in the District of Columbia, the Mayor and the Council may 
establish the maximum amount of funds which will be allocated to 
the Board, but may not specify the purposes for which such funds may 
be expended or the amount of such funds which may be expended for 
the various programs under the jurisdiction of the Board of Education. 
Subpart 2—Audit 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
AUDITOR 
SEC. 455. (a) There is established for the District of Columbia the 
offjce of 
Office of District of Columbia Auditor who shall be appointed by the co^iumbia Audi-
Chairman, subject to the approval of a majority of the Council. The tor. 
District of Columbia Auditor shall serve for a term of six years and 
Establishment. 
shall be paid at a rate of compensation as may be established from 
time to time by the Council. 
(b) The District of Columbia Auditor shall each year conduct a 
thorough audit of the accounts and operations of the government of 
the District in accordance with such principles and procedures and 
under such rules and regTilations as he may prescribe. In the deter-
mination of the auditing procedures to be followed and the extent of 
the examination of vouchers and other documents and records, the 
District of Columbia Auditor shall give due regard to generally 
accepted principles of auditing including the effectiveness of the 
accounting organizations and systems, internal audit and control, and 
related administrative ])ractices. 
(c) The District of Columbia Auditor shall have access to all books, 
Records, ac-
accounts, records, reports, findings and all other papers, things, or ''^^^''^'^^'y-
property belonging to or in use by any department, agency, or other 
instrumentality of the District government and necessary to facilitate 
the audit. 
(d) The District of Columbia Auditor shall submit his audit reports submut*a?fo°con. 
to the Congress, the Mayor, and the Council. Such reports shall set gresT, Mayor, and 
forth the scoj)e of the audits conducted by him and shall include such Council. 
tion 
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comments and information as the District of Columbia Auditor may 
deem necessary to keep the (^ongress, the Mayor, and the Council 
informed of the operations to which the reports relate, together with 
such recommendations with respect thereto as he may deem advisable. 
Public informa- 
^p) xiie Couiicil sliall make such report, together with such other 
material as it deems pertinent thereto, available for public inspection, 
(f) The Mayor sliall state in writing to the Council, within an 
appropriate time, what action he has taken to effectuate the recom-
mendations made by the District of Columbia Auditor in his reports. 
PAKT E—BORROWING 
Subpart 1—Borrowing 
DISTRICT'S AUTHORITY TO ISSUE AND REDEEM GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS 
F
O
R CAPITAL PROJECTS 
SEC. 461. (a) Subject to the limitations in section 603 (b), the District 
may incur indebtedness by issuing general obligation bonds to 
refund indebtedness of the District at any time outstanding and to 
provide for the payment of the cost of accpiiring or undertaking its 
various capital projects. Such bonds shall bear interest, payable 
annually or semi-annually, at such rate and at such maturities 
as the Mayor, subject to the provisions of section 462 of this Act, may 
from time to time determine to be necessary to make such bonds 
marketable. 
(b) The District may reserve the right to redeem any or all of its 
obligations before maturity in such manner and at such price 
as may be fixed by the Mayor prior to the issuance of such obligations. 
CONTENTS OF BORROWING LEGISLATION 
SEC. 462. The Council may by act authorize the issuance of general 
obligation bonds for the purposes specified in section 461. Such an act 
shall contain, at least, provisions— 
(1) briefly describing each such project; 
(2) identifying the Act authorizing each such project; 
(3) setting forth the maximum amount of the principal of the 
indebtedness which may be incurred for each such project; 
(4) setting forth the maximum rate of interest to be paid on 
such indebtedness; 
(5) setting forth the maximum allowable maturity for the issue 
and the maximum debt service payable in any year; and 
(6) setting forth, in the event that the Council determines in 
its discretion, to submit the question of issuing such bonds to a 
vote of the qualified voters of the District, the manner of holding 
such election, the manner of voting for or against the incurring of 
such indebtedness, and the form of ballot to be used at such 
election. 
PUBLICATION OF BORROWING LEGISLATION 
SEC. 463. The Mayor shall publish any act authorizing the issuance 
of general obligation bonds at least once within five days after the 
enactment thereof, together with a notice of the enactment thereof in 
substantially the following form: 
"NOTICE 
"The following act (published herewith) authorizing the issu-
ance of general obligation bonds, has become effective. The time 
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within which a suit, action, or proceeding questioning the validity 
of such bonds can be commenced, will expire twenty days from 
the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided in the 
District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorga-
nization Act. 
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"Mayor." 
SHORT PERIOD OF 
LIMITATION 
SEC. 464, At the end of the twenty-day period beginning on the date 
of publication of the notice of the enactment of an act authorizing the 
issuance of general obligation bonds without the submission of the 
proposition for the issuance thereof to the qualified voters, or upon 
the expiration of twenty days from the date of publication of the 
promulgation of the results of an election upon the proposition of 
issuing bonds, as the case may be— 
(1) any recitals or statements of fact contained in such act or in 
the preambles or the titles thereof or in the results of the election 
of any proceedings in connection with the calling, holding, or 
conducting of election upon the issuance of such bonds shall be 
deemed to be true for the purpose of determining the validity of 
the bonds thereby authorized, and the District and all others 
interested shall thereafter be estopped from denying same; 
(2) such act and all proceedings in connection with the authori-
zation of the issuance of such bonds shall be conclusively presumed 
to have been duly and regularly taken, passed, and done by the 
District and the Board of Elections in full compliance with the 
provisions of this Act and of all laws applicable thereto; and 
(3) the validity of such act and said proceedings shall not there-
after be questioned by either a party plaintiff or a party defend-
ant, and no court shall have jurisdiction in any suit, action, or 
proceeding questioning the validity of same, except in a suit, 
action, or proceeding commenced prior to the expiration of such 
twenty-day period. 
ACTS FOR ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS 
SEC. 465. At the end of the twenty-day period specified in section 
464, the Council may by act establish an issue of general obligation 
bonds as authorized pursuant to the provisions of sections 461 to 465 
inclusive, hereof. An issue of general obligation bonds is hereby defined 
to be all or any part of an aggregate principal amount of bonds 
authorized pursuant to such sections, but no indebtedness shall be 
deemed to have been incurred within the meaning of this Act until 
such bonds have been sold, delivered, and paid for, and then only to 
the extent of the principal amount of such bonds so sold and delivered. 
The bonds of each issue shall be payable in annual installments begin-
ning not more than three years after the date of such bonds and ending 
not more than thirty years from such date. The amount of said issues 
to be payable in each year shall be so fixed that when the annual inter-
est is added to the principal amount payable in each year, the total 
amount payable either serially or to a sinking fund shall be substan-
tially equal. It shall be an immaterial variance if the difference between 
the largest and smallest amounts of principal and interest so payable 
during each fiscal year during the term of the general obligation bonds 
does not exceed 3 per centum of the total authorized amount of such 
series. Such bonds and coupons may be executed by the facsimile sig-
natures of the officer designated by the act authorizing such bonds, to 
sign the bonds, within the exception that at least one signature shall 
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be manual. Such bonds may be issued in coupon form in the denomina-
tion of $1,000, or $1,000 and $5,000, registerable as to principal only 
or as to both principal and interest, and if registered as to both prin-
cipal and interest may be issuable in denominations of multiples of 
$1,000. Such bonds and the interest thereon may be payable at such 
place or places within or without the District as the Council may 
determine. 
PUBLIC SALE 
SEC. 466. All general obligation bonds issued under this part shall be 
sold at public sale upon sealed proposals after publication of a notice 
of such sale at least once not less than ten days prior to the date fixed 
for sale in a daily newspaper carrying municipal bond notices and 
devoted primarily to financial news or to the subject of State and 
municipal bonds published in the city of New York, New York, and in 
one or more newspapers of general circulation published in the District. 
Such notice shall state, among other things, that no proposal shall be 
considered unless there is deposited with the District as a downpay-
ment a certified check or cashier's check for an amount equal to at least 
2 per centum of the par amount of general obligation bonds bid for, 
and the Council shall reserve the right to reject any and all bids. 
Subpart 2—Sliort-Term Borrowing 
BORROWING TO MEET 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 471. In the absence of unappropriated available revenues to 
meet appropriations made pursuant to section 446, the Council may 
by act authorize the issuance of negotiable notes, in a total amount 
not to exceed 2 per centum of the total appropriations for the cur-
rent fiscal year, each of which may be renewed from time to time, 
but all such notes and renewals thereof shall be paid not later than 
the close of the fiscal year folloAving that in which such act becomes 
effective. 
BORROWING I N ANTICIPATION OF REVENUES 
SEC. 472. For any fiscal year, in anticipation of the collection or 
receipt of revenues of that fiscal year, the Council may by act authorize 
the borrowing of money by the execution of negotiable notes of the 
District, not to exceed in the aggregate at any time outstanding 20 
per centum of the total anticipated revenue, each of which shall be 
designated "Revenue Note for the Fiscal Year 19 ". Such notes may 
be renewed from time to time, but all such notes, together with the 
renewals, shall mature and be paid not later than the end of the fiscal 
year for which the original notes have been issued. 
NOTES REDEEMABLE PRIOR TO 
MATURITY 
SEC. 473. No notes issued pursuant to this part shall be made pay-
able on demand, but any note may be made subject to redemption 
prior to maturity on such notice and at such time as may be stated in 
the note. 
SALES OF NOTES 
SEC. 474. All notes issued pursuant to this part may be sold at not 
less than par and accrued interest at private sale without previous 
advertising. 
Review. 
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Subpail 3—Payment of Bonds and Xotes 
SPECIAL TAX 
SEC. 481. (a) The act of the Council authorizing the issuance of 
general obligation bonds pursuant to this title, shall, where necessary, 
provide for the levy annually of a special tax or charge without limita-
tion as to rate or amount in amounts which, together with other rev-
enues of the District available and applicable for said purposes, will 
be sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds and the 
premium, if any, upon the redemption thereof, as the same respectively 
become due and payable, which tax shall be levied and collected at the 
same time and in the same manner as other District taxes are levied 
and collected, and when collected shall be set aside in a sinking fund 
and irrevocably dedicated to the payment of such principal, interest, 
and premium. 
(b) The full faith and credit of the District shall be and is hereby 
pledged for the payment of the principal of and the interest on all 
general obligation bonds and notes of the District hereafter issued 
pursuant to subparts 1, 2, and 3 of part E of this title whether or not 
such pledge be stated in such bonds or notes or in the act authorizing 
the issuance thereof. 
(c) (1) As soon as practicable following the beginning of each fiscal 
year, the Mayor shall review the amounts of District revenues which 
have been set aside and deposited in a sinking fund as provided in 
subsection (a). Such review shall be carried out with a view to deter-
mining whether the amounts so set aside and deposited are sufficient 
to pay the principal of and interest on general obligation bonds issued 
pursuant to this title, and the premium (if any) upon the redemption 
thereof, as the same respectively become due and payable. To the 
extent that the Mayor determines that sufficient District revenues have 
not been so set aside and deposited, the Federal payment made for 
the fiscal year within which such review is conducted shall be first 
utilized to make up any deficit in such sinking fund. 
(2) The Comptroller General of the United States shall make 
annual audits of the amounts set aside and deposited in the sinking 
fund. 
Subpart 4—Tax Exemption; T^gal Investment; Water Pollution; 
Rt'servoirs; Metro Contributions; and Revenue Bonds 
TAX EXEMPTION 
SEC. 485. Bonds and notes issued by the Council pursuant to this 
title and tlie interest thereon shall be exempt from all Federal and 
District taxation except estate, inheritance, and gift taxes. 
LEGAL 
INVESTMENT 
SEC. 486. Notwithstanding any restriction on the investment of 
funds by fiduciaries contained in any other law, all domestic insurance 
(companies, domestic insurance associations, executors, administrators, 
guardians, trustees, and other fiduciaries within the District may 
legally invest any sinking funds, moneys, trust funds, or other funds 
belonging to them or under or within their control in any bonds issued 
pursuant to this title, it being the purpose of this section to authorize 
the iiiAestment in such bonds or notes of all sinking, insurance, retire-
ment, compcMsation, pension, and trust funds, National banking asso-
ciations are authorized to deal in, underwrite, purchase and sell, for 
their own accounts or for the accounts of customers, bonds and notes 
issued by the Counc.'il to the same extent as national banking associa-
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tions are authorized by paragraph seven of section 5136 of the Revised 
Statutes (12 LT.S.C 24), to deal in, underwrite, purchase and sell obli-
gations of the United States, States, or political subdivisions thereof. 
AH Federal building and loan associations and Federal savings and 
loan associations; and banks, trust companies, building and loan asso-
ciations, and savings and loan associations, domiciled in the District, 
may purchase, sell, underwrite, and deal in, for their own account 
or for the account of others, all bonds or notes issued pursuant to this 
title. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as relieving 
any person, firm, association, or corporation from any duty of exercis-
ing due and reasonable care in selecting securities for purchase or 
investment. 
WATER POLLUTION 
SEC. 487. (a) The Mayor shall annually estimate the amount of the 
District's principal and interest expense which is required to service 
District obligations attributable to the Maryland and Virginia pro 
rata share of District sanitary sewage w^ater works and other water 
pollution projects which provide service to the local jurisdictions in 
those States. Such amounts as determined by the Mayor pursuant 
to the agreements described in subsection (b) shall be used to 
exclude the Maryland and Virginia share of pollution projects cost 
from the limitation on the District's capital project obligations as 
provided in section 603 (b). 
(b) The Mayor shall enter into agreements with the States and 
local jurisdictions concerned for annual payments to the District of 
rates and charges for waste treatment services in accordance with the 
use and benefits made and derived from the operation of the said waste 
treatment facilities. Each such agreement shall require that the esti-
mated amount of such rates and charges will be paid in advance, sub-
ject to adjustment after each year. Such rates and charges shall be 
sufficient to cover the cost of construction, interest on capital, opera-
tion and maintenance, and the necessary replacement of equipment 
during tlie useful life of the facility. 
COST OF RESERVOIRS ON POTOMAC RIVER 
Contract au- 
gj.^,^ 488. (a) The ]\layor is authorized to contract with the United 
States, any State in the Potomac River Basin, any agency or political 
subdivision thereof, and any other competent State or local authority, 
w^ith respect to the payment by the District to the United States, either 
directly or indirectly, of the District's equitable share of any part or 
parts of the non-Federal portion of the costs of any reservoirs author-
ized by the Congress for construction on the Potomac River or any of 
its tributaries. Every such contract may contain such provisions as the 
Mayor may deem necessary or appropriate. 
(b) Unless hereafter otherwise provided by legislation enacted by 
the Ooimcil. all payments made by the District and all moneys received 
by the District pursuant to any contract made under the authority of 
this Act shall be paid from, or be deposited in,, a fund designated by 
the Mayor. Charges for water delivered from the District water system 
for use outside the District may be adjusted to reflect the portions 
of any payments made by the District under contracts authorized 
by this Act which are equitably attributable to such use outside the 
District. 
D I S ' I R I C T ' S 
CONTRIBITTIONS TO T H E 
WASHINGTON 
METROPOLITAN 
AREA 
TRANSIT 
AUTHORITY 
SEC. 489. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, 
beginning with fiscal year 1976 the District share of the cost of the 
thority 
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xidopted Regional System described in the National Capital Trans-
portation Act of 1969 (83 Stat. 320), may be payable from the proceeds 
of the sale of District general obligation bonds issued pursuant to this 
title. 
REVENUE BONlDS AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS 
SEC. 490. (a) The Council may by act issue revenue bonds, notes, or 
other obligations (including refunding bonds, notes, or other obliga-
tions) to borrow money to finance or assist in the financing of under-
takings in the areas of housing, health facilities, transit and utility 
facilities, recreational facilities, college and university facilities, and 
industrial and commercial development. Such bonds, notes, or other 
obligations shall be fully negotiable and payable, as to both principal 
and interest, solely from and secured solely by a pledge of the revenues 
realized from the property, facilities, developments, and improve-
ments whose financing is undertaken by the issuance of such bonds, 
notes, or other obligations, including existing facilities to which 
such new facilities and improvements are related, which 
financing 
may be effected through loans made directly or indirectly (including 
the purchase of mortgages, in those cases described in subsection (b) 
of this section, notes, or other securities) to any public, quasi-public, 
or private corporation, partnership, association, person, or other legal 
entity. 
(b) Except in the case of housing, recreation, commercial and indus-
trial development, the property, facilities, developments, and improve-
ments being financed may not be mortgaged as additional security 
for bonds, notes, or other obligations, but in no event shall any 
property owned by the District of Columbia or the United States be 
mortgaged for the purpose of this section. 
(c) Any and all such bonds, notes, or other obligations shall not 
be general obligations of the District and shall not be a pledge of or 
involve the faith and credit or the taxing power of the District, shall 
not constitute a debt of the District, and shall not constitute lending 
of the public credit for private undertakings as contained in section 
602(a)(2). 
(d) Any and all such bonds, notes, or other obligations shall be 
issued pursuant to an act of the Council without the necessity of 
submitting the question of such issuance to the registered qualified 
electors of the District for approval or disapproval. 
(e) Any such act may contain provisions— 
(1) briefly describing the purpose for which such bond, note, 
or other obligation is to be issued; 
(2) identifying the Act authorizing such purpose; 
(3) prescribinfir the form, terms, provisions, manner or method 
of issuing and selling (including negotiated as well as competitive 
bid sale), and the time of issuance, of such bonds, notes, or other 
obligations; and 
(4) prescribing any and all other details with respect to any 
such bonds, notes, or other obligations and the issuance and sale 
thereof. 
The act may authorize and empower the Mayor to do any and all 
things necessary, proper, or expedient in connection with the issuance 
and sale of such notes, bonds, or other obligations authorized to be 
issued under the provisions of this section. 
PART F—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
BOARD OF ELECTIONS 
SEC. 491. Section 3 of the District of Columbia Elections Act 
(D.C. Code, sec. 1-1103) is amended to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 3. (a) There is created a District of Columbia Board of Elec-
tions (hereafter in this section referred to as the 'Board'), to be com-
posed of three members, no more than two of whom shall be of the 
same political party, appointed by the Mayor, with the advice and 
consent of the Council. Members shall be appointed to serve for terms 
of three years, except of the members first appointed under this Act. 
One member shall be appointed to serve for a one-year term, one 
member shall be appointed to serve for a two-year term, and one 
member shall be appointed to serve for a three-year term, as desig-
nated by the Mayor. 
"(b) Any person appointed to fill a vacancy on the Board shall be 
appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whose vacancy 
he is filling. 
"(c) A member may be reappointed, and, if not reappointed, the 
member shall serve until his successor has been appointed and qualifies. 
"(d) The Mayor shall, from time to time, designate the Chairman 
of the Board." 
ZONING 
COMMISSION 
41 Stat. 500; 
48 Stat. 389. 
SEC. 492. (a) The first section of the Act of March 1, 1920 (D.C. 
Code, sec. 5^12) is amended to read as follows: "That (a) to protect 
the public health, secure the public safety, and to protect property in 
the District of Columbia there is created a Zoning Commission for 
the District of Columbia, which shall consist of the Architect of the 
Capitol, the Director of the National Park Service, and three members 
appointed by the Mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Council. Each member appointed by the Mayor shall serve for a term 
of four years, except of the members first appointed under this section— 
"(1) one member shall serve for a term of two years, as deter-
mined by the Mayor; 
"(2) one member shall serve for a term of three years, as 
determined by the Mayor; and 
"(3) one member shall serve for a term of four years, as deter-
mined by the Mayor. 
"(b) Members of the Zoning Commission appointed by the Mayor 
shall be entitled to receive compensation as determined by the Mayor, 
with the approval of a majority of the Council. The remaining mem-
bers shall serve without additional compensation. 
"(c) Members of the Zoning Commission appointed by the Mayor 
may be reappointed. Each member shall serve until his successor has 
been appointed and qualifies. 
"(d) The Chairman of the Zoning Commission shall be selected by 
the members. 
"(e) The Zoning Commission shall exercise all the powers and per-
form all the duties with respect to zoning in the District as provided 
by law.". 
(b) The Act of June 20, 1938 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-^13, et seq.) is 
amended as follows: 
52 Stat. 7 97. 
(1) ^j^g f^j.^^ Sentence of section 2 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 
5-414) is amended by striking out "Such regulations shall be made 
in accordance with a comprehensive plan and" and inserting in lieu 
thereof "Zoning maps and regulations, and amendments thereto, shall 
not be inconsistent with the comprehensive plan for the National Capi-
tal, and zoning regulations shall be". 
5
2 Stat. 798. 
(£) Sectlou 5 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5-41Y) is amended to 
read as follows: 
"SEC. 5. (a) No zoning regulation or map, or any amendment 
thereto, may be adopted by the Zoning Commission until the Zoning 
Commission—" 
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''(1) has held a public hearing, after notice, on such proposed 
regulation, map, or amendment; and 
"(2) after such public hearing, submitted such proposed reg-
ulation, map, or amendment to the National Capital Planning 
Commission for comment and review. 
If the National Capital Planning Commission fails to submit its com-
ments regarding any such regulation, map, or amendment within 
thirty days after submission of such regulation, map, or amendment to 
it, then the Zoning Commission may proceed to act upon the proposed 
regulation, map, or aniendment without further comment from the 
National Capital Planning Commission. 
"(b) The notice required by clause (1) of subsection (a) shall be 
Hearing notice. 
published at least thirty days prior to such public hearing and shall 
include a statement as to the time and place of the hearing and a sum-
mary of all changes in existing zoning regulations which would be 
made by adoption of the proposed regulation, map, or amendment. 
The Zoning Commission shall give such additional notice as it deems 
expedient and practicable. All interested persons shall be given a rea-
sonable opportunity to be heard at such public hearing. If the hearing 
is adjourned from time to time, the time and place of reconvening shall 
be publicly announced prior to adjournment. 
"(c) The Zoning Commission shall deposit with the National Capital 
Planning Commission all zoning regulations, maps, or amendments 
thereto, adopted by it." 
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 
SEC. 493. (a) There shall be a Public Service Commission whose 
function shall be to insure that every public utility doing business 
within the District of Columbia is required to furnish service and 
facilities reasonably safe and adequate and in all respects just and 
reasonable. The charge made by any such public utility for any facility 
or services furnished, or rendered, or to be furnished or rendered, shall 
be reasonable, just, and nondiscriminatory. Every unjust or unrea-
sonable or discriminating charge for such facility or service is pro-
hibited and is hereby declared unlawful. 
(b) The first sentence of paragraph 97(a) of section 8 of the Act of 
March 4, 1913 (making appropriations for the government of the 
District of Columbia) (D.C. Code, sec. 43-201), is amended to read as 
follows: "The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia 
shall be composed of three Commissioners appointed by the Mayor by 
and with the advice and consent of the Council.". 
ARMORY BOARD 
SEC. 494. The first sentence of section 2 of the Act of June 4, 1948 
(D.C. Code, sec. 2-1702), is amended to read as follows: "There is 
established an Armory Board, to be composed of the commanding 
general of the District of Columbia Militia, and two other members 
appointed by the Mayor of the District of Columbia by and with the 
advice and consent of the Council of the District of Columbia. The 
members appointed by the Mayor shall each serve for a term of four 
years beginning on the date such member qualifies.". 
BOARD o r 
E D U C A T I O N 
SEC. 495. The control of the public schools in the District of Colum-
bia is vested in a Board of Education to consist of eleven elected mem-
bers, three of whom are to be elected at large, and one to be elected from 
each of the eight school election wards established under the District 
37 Stat. 995; 
78 Stat. 634. 
62 Stat. 339. 
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69 Stat. 699; 
^f Columbia Election Act. The election of the members of the Board 
^^D^c.^'Jodl* 1- 
of P^ducation shall be conducted on a nonpartisan basis and in accord-
1101 note. 
ance with such Act. 
TITLE V—FEDERAL PAYMENT 
DUTIES OF THE MAYOR, COUXCIL, AND FEDERAL OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT 
AND BUDGET 
SEC. 501. (a) It shall be the duty of the Mayor in preparing an 
annual budget for the government of the District to develop mean-
ingful intercity expenditure and revenue comparisons based on data 
supplied by the Bureau of the Census, and to identify elements of 
cost and benefits to the District which result from the unusual role of 
the District as the Nation's Capital. The results of the studies con-
ducted by the Mayor under this subsection shall be made available 
to the Council and to the Federal Office of Management and Budget 
for their use in reviewing and revising the Mayor's request with 
respect to the level of the appropriation for the annual Federal pay-
ment to the District. Such Federal payment should operate to encour-
age eiforts on the part of the government of the District to maintain 
and increase its level of revenues and to seek such efficiencies and 
economies in the management of its programs as are possible. 
(b) The Mayor, in studying and identifying the costs and benefits 
to the District brought about by its role as the Nation's Capital, should 
to the extent feasible, among other elements, consider— 
(1) revenues unobtainable because of the relative lack of tax-
able Commercial and industrial property; 
(2) revenues unobtainable because of the relative lack of tax-
able business income; 
(3) potential revenues that would be realized if exemptions 
from District taxes were eliminated; 
(4) net costs, if any, after considering other compensation for 
tax base deficiencies and direct and indirect taxes paid, of provid-
ing services to tax-exempt nonprofit organizations and corporate 
offices doing business only with the Federal Government; 
(5) recurring and nonrecurring costs of unreimbursed services 
to the Federal Government; 
(6) other expenditure re(piirements placed on the District by 
the Federal Government which are unique to the District; 
(7) benefits of Federal grants-in-aid relative to aid given other 
States and local governments; 
(8) recurring and nonrecurring costs of unreimbursed services 
rendered the District by the Federal Government; and 
(9) relative tax burden on District residents compared to that 
of residents in other jurisdictions in the Washington, District of 
(^olumbia, metropolitan area and in other cities of comparable 
size. 
re^ue^t'^^^ Payment 
^(.) ^he Mayor shall submit his request, with respect to the amount 
of an annual Federal payment, to the Council. The Council shall by 
pfe^'id'e'nt^^ *° 
act approve, disapprove, or modify the Mayor's request. After the 
action of the Council, the Mayor shall, by December 1 of each calendar 
year, in accordance with the provisions in the Budget and Account-
42 Stat. 20. 
ii^j,. Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 2), submit such request to the President for 
submission to the Congress. Each request regarding an annual Fed-
eral payment shall be submitted to the President seven months prior 
to the beginning of the fiscal year for which such request is made and 
shall include a request for an annual Federal payment for the next 
following fiscal year. 
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AUTHORIZATION OF APPROrRIATIOXS 
SEC. 502. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is 
authorized to be appropriated as the annual Federal payment to the 
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, the 
sum of $230,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, the sum 
of $254,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1977, the sum of 
$280,000,000; for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1978, and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, the sum of $300,000,000. 
TITLE VI—EESEEVATION OF CONGKESSIONAL 
AUTHOEITY 
RETENTION o r CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY 
SEC. 601. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Congress of the United States reserves the right, at any time, to exer-
cise its constitutional authority as legislature for the District, by 
enacting legislation for the District on any subject, whether within or 
without the scope of legislative power granted to the Council by this 
Act, including legislation to amend or repeal any law in force in the 
District prior to or after enactment of this Act and any act passed by 
the Council. 
LIMITATIONS ON T H E COUNCIL 
SEC. 602. (a) The Council shall have no authority to pass any act 
contrary to the provisions of this Act except as specifically provided 
in this Act, or to— 
(1) impose any tax on projjerty of the United States or any 
of the several States; 
(2) lend the public credit for support of any private under-
taking ; 
(3) enact any act, or enact any act to amend or repeal any Act 
of Congress, which concerns the functions or property of the 
United States or which is not restricted in its application exclu-
sively in or to the District ; 
(4) enact any act, resolution, or rule with respect to any pro-
vision of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to 
D.C. code n-
organization and jurisdiction of the District of Columbia courts) ; ^°^* 
(5) impose any tax on the whole or any portion of the personal 
income, either directly or at the source thereof, of any individual 
not a resident of the District (the terms "individual" and "resi-
dent" to be understood for the purposes of this paragraph as they 
are defined in section 4 of title I of the District of Columbia 
Income and Franchise Tax Act of 1947): 
ei stat. 332; 
(6) enact any act, resolution, or rule which permits the build- 
^.c. code'47.. 
ing of any structure within the District of Columbia in excess of issic. 
the height limitations contained in section 5 of the Act of June 1, 
1910 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-405), and in eifect on the date of enact- 
36 stat. 452; 
ment or this Act; 
(7) enact any act, resolution, or regulation with respect to the 
Commission on Mental Health; 
(8) enact any act or regulation relating to the United States 
District Court for the District of Columbia or any other court 
of the United States in the District other than the District courts, 
or relating to the duties or powers of the United States attorney 
or the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia; or 
(9) enact any act, resolution, or rule with respect to any pro-
vision of title 23 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to 
criminal procedure), or with respect to any provision of any 
law codified in title 22 or 24 of the District of Columbia Code 
75 Stat. 583. 
D.C. Code 23-
101. 
Ante, 
p. 78 
D.C. acts, 
transmittal to 
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[87 STAT. 
D.C. Code 22- 
(relating to crimes and treatment of prisoners) during the twenty-
101,24-101. 
1^^^^. ^^^jj calendar months immediately following the day on 
which the members of the Council first elected pursuant to this 
Act take oiRce. 
(b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as vesting in the District 
government any greater authority over the National Zoological Park, 
the National (juard of the District of Columbia, the Washington 
Aqueduct, the National Capital Planning Commission, or, except as 
otherwise specifically provided in this Act, over any Federal agency, 
than was vested in the C*ommissioner prior to the effective date of 
Post, p. 836. 
title IV of this Act. 
(c) (1) Except acts of the Council which are submitted to the Presi-
42 Stat. 20. 
(jeiit in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, any 
^^^ '^- 
act which the Council determines according to section 412(a), should 
take effect immediately because of emergency circumstances, and acts 
proposing amendments to title IV of this Act, the Chairman of the 
spea^keVo/ the 
Couucil shall trausmit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
^°"^^ ^"d Pre si- j^i^(j (i^g President of the Senate a copy of each act passed by the 
Council and signed by the Mayor, or vetoed by the Mayor and repassed 
by two-thirds of the Council present and voting (and with respect to 
which the President has not sustained the Mayor's veto), and every 
act passed by the Council and allowed to become effective by the Mayor 
without his signature. Except as provided in paragraph (2), no such 
act shall take effect until the end of the 30-day period (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, and any day on which either House 
is not in session) beginning on the day such act is transmitted bv the 
Chairman to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Pres-
ident of the Senate and then only if during such 30-day period both 
Houses of Congress do not adopt a concurrent resolution disapproving 
such act. The provisions of section 604, except subsections (d), (e), and 
(f) of such section, shall apply with respect to any concurrent resolu-
tion disapproving any act pursuant to this paragraph. 
(2) In the case of any such act transmitted by the Chairman with 
respect to any Act codified in titles 22, 23, or 24 of the District of 
io'?fo'2^4°-fou^" 
<^^olumbia Code, such act shall take effect at the end of the 30-day 
period beginning on the day such act is transmitted by the Chairman 
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of 
the Senate only if during such 30-day period one House of Congress 
does not adopt a resolution disapproving such act. The provisions of 
section 604, relating to an expedited procedure for consideration of 
resolutions, shall apply to a simple resolution disapproving such act 
as specified in this paragraph. 
BUDGET P R O C E S S ; LIMITATIONS ON BORROWING AND SPENDING 
SEC. 603. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as making any 
change in existing law, regulation, or basic procedure and practice 
relating to the respective roles of the Congress, the President, the Fed-
eral Office of Management and Budget, and the Comptroller General 
of the United States in the preparation, review, submission, examina-
tion, authorization, and appropriation of the total budget of the Dis-
trict of Columbia government. 
(b)(1) No general obligation bonds (other than bonds to refund 
outstanding indebtedness) or Treasury capital project loans shall be 
issued during any fiscal year in an amount which would cause the 
amount of principal and interest required to be paid both serially 
and into a sinking fund in any fiscal year on the aggregate amounts of 
all outstanding general obligation bonds and such Treasury loans, to 
exceed 14 per centum of the District revenues (less court fees, any 
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fees or revenues directed to servicing revenue bonds, retirement con-
tributions, revenues from retirement systems, and revenues derived 
from such Treasury loans and the sale of general obligation or revenue 
bonds) which the Mayor estimates, and the District of Columbia 
Auditor certifies, will be credited to the District during the fiscal year 
in which the bonds will be issued. Treasury capital project loans 
include all borrowings from the United States Treasury, except those 
funds advanced to the District by the Secretary of the Treasury under 
the provisions of section 2501, title 47 of the District of Columbia 
Code, as amended. 
ss^stars'ss^'" 
(2) Obligations incurred pursuant to the authority contained in the 
District of Columbia Stadium Act of 1957 (71 Stat. 619; D.C. Code 
title 2, chapter 17, subchapter I I ) , and obligations incurred by the ^^^•^- '^°'^'' ^' 
agencies transferred or established by sections 201 and 202, whether 
^^Je, p. 773. 
incurred before or after such transfer or establishment, shall not be 
included in determining the aggregate amount of all outstanding obli-
gations subject to the limitation specified in the preceding subsection, 
(3) The 14 per centum limitation specified in paragraph (1) shall 
be calculated in the following manner: 
(A) Determine the dollar amount equivalent to 14 percent of 
the District revenues (less court fees, any fees or revenues directed 
to servicing revenue bonds, retirement contributions, revenues 
from retirement systems, and revenues derived from such Treasury 
loans and the sale of general obligation or revenue bonds) which 
the Mayor estimates, and the District of Columbia Auditor cer-
tifies, will be credited to the District during the fiscal year for 
which the bonds will be issued. 
(B) Determine the actual total amount of principal and interest 
to be paid in each fiscal year for all outstanding general obliga-
tion bonds and such Treasury loans. 
(C) Determine the amount of principal and interest to be paid 
during each fiscal year over the term of the proposed general 
obligation bond or such Treasury loan to be issued. 
(D) If in any one fiscal year the sum arrived at by adding 
subparagraphs (B) and (C) exceeds the amount determined under 
subparagraph (A), then the proposed general obligation bond or 
such Treasury loan in subparagraph (C) cannot be issued. 
(c) The Council shall not approve any budget which would result in 
expenditures being made by the District Government, during any 
fiscal year, in excess of all resources which the Mayor estimates will 
be available from all funds available to the District for such fiscal 
year. The budget shall identify any tax increases which shall be 
required in order to balance the budget as submitted. The Council shall 
be required to adopt such tax increases to the extent its budget is 
approved. For the purposes of this section, the Council shall use a Fedr-
eral payment amount not to exceed the amount authorized by Congress. 
In determining w^hether any such budget would result in expendi-
tures so being made in excess of such resources, amounts included in 
the budget estimates of the District of Columbia courts in excess of 
the recommendations of the Council shall not be applicable. 
(d) The Mayor shall not forward to the President for submission 
to Congress a budget which is not balanced according to the provision 
of subsection 603(c). 
(e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the applica-
bility to the District government of the provisions of section 3679 of 
the Revised Statutes of the United States (31 U.S.C. 665), the so-called 
Anti-Deficiency Act. 
"Resolution." 
Referral to 
congressional 
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[87 STAT. 
CONGRESSIOXAL ACTION ON CERTAIN DISTRICT 
MATTERS 
SEC. 604. (a) This section is enacted by Congress— 
(1) as an exercise of tlie rnlemaking power of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives, respectively, and as such these pro-
visions are deemed a pai't of the rule of each House, respectively, 
but applicable only with respect to the procedure to be followed 
in that House in the case of resolutions described by this section; 
and they supersede other rules only to the extent that they are 
inconsistent therewith; and 
(2) with full recognition of the constitutional right of either 
House to change the rule (so far as relating to the procedure of 
that House) at any time, in the same manner and to the same 
extent as in the case of any other rule of that House. 
(b) For the purpose of this section, "resolution" means only a 
concurrent resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which 
is as follows: "That the 
—— approves/disapprov-es of the 
action of the District of Columbia Council described as follows: 
.", the blank spaces therein being appropriately filled, 
and either approval or disapproval being appropriately indicated; 
but does not include a resolution which specifies more than one action. 
(c) A resolution with respect to Council action shall be referred 
committees'.'"" 
to thc Committce on the District of Columbia of the House of Repre-
sentatives, or the Committee on the District of Columbia of the Sen-
ate, by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, as the case may be. 
(d) If the committee to which a resolution has been referred has not 
reported it at the end of twenty calendar days after its inti'oduction, 
it is in order to move to discharge the committee from further consid-
eration of any other resolution with respect to the same Council action 
which has been referred to the committee. 
(e) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual 
favoring the resolution, is highly privileged (exce})t that it may not 
be made after the committee has reported a resolution with i-espect 
to the same action), and debate thereon shall be limited to not more 
than one hour, to be divided equally between tliose favoring and those 
opposing the resolution. An amendment to the motion is not in order, 
and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the 
motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(f) If the motion to discharge is agreed to or disagreed to, the motion 
may not be renewed, nor may another motion to discharge the 
committee be made with respect to any other resolution with respect 
to the same action. 
(g) When the committee has re])orted, or has been discharged from 
further consideration of, a resolution, it is at any time thereafter in 
order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been dis-
agreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. 
The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment 
to the motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider 
the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(h) Debate on the resolution sliall be limited to not more than ten 
hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and 
those opposing the resolution. A motion further to limit debate is not 
debatable. An amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution 
is not in order, and it is not in oi'der to move to reconsider the vote 
by which the resolution is agreed to or disagreed to. 
(i) Motions to postpone made with respect to the discharge from 
committee or the consideration of a resolution, and motions to proceed 
to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate. 
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817 
(]) Appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the applica-
tion of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the 
case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution shall be decided 
without debate. 
TITLE VII—REFEEENDUM; SUCCESSION IN GOVERN-
MENT; TEMPORARY PROVISIONS; MISCELLANEOUS; 
AMENDMENTS TO DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION 
ACT; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; AND 
EFFECTIVE 
DATES 
PART A—CHARTER REFERENDUM 
REFERENDUM 
SEC. 701. On a date to be fixed by the Board of Elections, not more 
than five months after the date of enactment of this Act, a referendum 
(in this part referred to as the "charter referendum") shall be con-
ducted to determine whether the registered qualified electors of the 
District accept the charter set forth as title IV of this Act. 
BOARD OF ELECTIONS AUTHORITY 
SEC. 702. (a) The Board of Elections shall conduct the charter 
referendum and certify the results thereof as provided in this part. 
(b) Notwithstanding the fact that such section does not otherwise 
take efi^ect unless the charter is accepted under this title, the applicable 
provisions of part E of title VII of this Act shall govern the Board of 
Elections in the performance of its duties under this Act. 
REFERENDUM BALLOT AND NOTICE OF VOTING 
SEC. 703. (a) The charter referendum ballot shall contain the fol-
lowing, with a blank space appropriately filled: 
"The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental 
Reorganization Act, enacted 
, proposes to establish a 
charter for the governance of the District of Columbia, but pro-
vides that the charter shall take effect only if it is accepted by a 
majority of the registered qualified voters of the District voting 
on this issue. 
"Indicate in one of the squares provided below whether you are 
for or against the charter. 
"D For the charter 
"D Against the charter. 
"In addition, the Act referred to above authorizes the establish-
ment of Advisory Neighborhood Councils if a majority of the 
registered qualified voters in the District vote for such Councils. 
"Indicate in one of the squares provided below whether you are 
for or against the establishment of Advisory Neighborhood 
Councils. 
" n For Advisory Neighborhood Councils 
" n Against Advisory Neighborhood Councils.". 
(b) Voting may be by paper ballot or by voting machine. The 
Board of Elections may make such changes in the second and fourth 
paragraphs of the charter referendum ballot as it determines to be 
necessary to permit the use of voting machines if such machines are 
used. 
(c) Not less than five days before the date of the charter referendum, 
the Board of Elections shall mail to each registered qualified elector 
(1) a sample of the charter referendum ballot, and (2) information 
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Voting infor-
mation, publica-
tion. 
showing tlie polling place of such elector and the date and hours 
of voting. 
(d) Not less than one day before the charter referendum, the Board 
of Elections shall publish, in one or more newspapers of general cir-
culation published in the District, a list of the polling places and the 
date and hours of voting. 
Certification. 
ACCEPTANCE OR XONACCEPTANCE OF 
CHARTER 
SEC. 704:. (a) If a majority of the registered qualified electors voting 
in the charter referendum vote for the charter, the charter shall be 
(Considered accepted as of the time the Board of Elections certifies the 
result of the charter referendum to the President of the United States, 
as provided in subsection (b). 
(b) The Board of Elections shall, within a reasonable time, but in 
no event more than thirty days after the date of the charter referen-
dum, certify the results of the charter referendum to the President 
of the LTnited States and to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk 
of tlie House of Representatives. 
PART B—SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT 
81 Stat, 948, 
5 u s e app. II, 
D,C. Code 1-
app. 
AUOLISII^IENT OF EXISTING GOVERNMENT AND TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS 
SEC. 711. The District of Columbia Council, the offices of Chairman 
of the District of Columbia Council, Vice Chairman of the District of 
Columbia Council, and the seven other members of the District of 
Columbia Council, and the offices of the Commissioner of the District 
of Columbia and Assistant to the Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia, as established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1967, 
are abolished as of noon January 2,1975. This subsection shall not be 
construed to reinstate any governmental body or office in the District 
abolished in said plan or otherwise heretofore. 
CERTAIN DELEGATED FUNCTIONS AND FUNCTIONS OF CERTAIN 
AGENCIES 
SEC, 712. No function of the District of Columbia Council (estab-
lished under Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1967) or of the 
Commissioner of the District of Columbia which such District of 
Columbia Council or Commissioner has delegated to an officer, 
employee, or agency (including any body of or under such agency) 
of the District, nov any function now vested pursuant to section 501 
of Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1967 in the District Public 
Service Commission, Zoning Advisory Council, Board of Zoning 
Adjustment, Office of the Recorder of Deeds, or Armory Board, or in 
any officer, employee, or body of or under such agency, shall be con-
sidered as a function transferred to the Council pursuant to section 
404(a) of tliis Act, Each such function is hereby transferred to the offi-
cer, employee, or agency (inchiding any body of or under such agency), 
to whom or to wliich it was delegated, or in whom or in which it has 
remained vested, until the Mayor or Council established under this 
Act, or both, pursuant to the powers herein granted, shall revoke, 
modify, or transfer such delegation or vesting. 
TRANSFER OF PERSONNEL, PROPERTY, AND FUNDS 
SEC, 713. (a) In each case of the transfer, by any provision of this 
Act, of functions to the Council, to the Mayor, or to any agency or 
officer, there are hereby authorized to be transferred (as of the time 
of su(*h transfer of functions) to the Council, to the Mayor, to such 
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agency, or to the agency of which such officer is the head, for use in 
the administration of the functions of tJie Council or such agency or 
officer, the personnel (except the Commissioner of the District of 
Columbia, the Assistant to the Commissioner-, the Chairman of the 
District of Columbia Council, the Vice Chairman of the L^istrict of 
Columbia Council, the other members thereof, all of whose offices are 
abolished by this Act), property, records, and unexpended balances 
of appropriations and other funds which relate primarily to the func-
tions so transferred. 
(b) If any question arises in connection w^th the carrying out of 
subsection (a), such questions shall be decided— 
(1) in the case of functions transferred from a Federal officer 
or agency, by the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget; and 
(2) in the case of other functions (A) by the Council, or in 
such manner as the Council shall provide, if such functions are 
transferred to the Council, and (B) by the Mayor if such func-
tions are transferr-ed to him or to any other- officer or agency. 
(c) Any of the personnel authorized to be transferred to the Coun-
cil, the Mayor, or any agency by this section which the Council or the 
head of such agency shall find to be in excess of the personnel neces-
sary for the administration of its or his function shall, in accordance 
with law, be retransferred to other positions in the District or Fed-
eral Government or be separated from the service. 
(d) Xo officer or employee shall, by reason of his transfer to the 
Distr-ict government under this Act or his separation from service 
under- this Act, be deprived of any civil service rights, benefits, and 
l)r-ivileges held by him prior to such tr-ansfer or any right of appeal or 
review^ he may have by reason of his separation from service. 
r<:xiSTING STATUTES, Rr^OULATIOXS, AND OTHP^H ACTIONS 
SEC. 714. (a) Any statute, r-egulation, or other action in i-espect of 
(and any r-egulation or other action issued, made, taken, or- granted 
by) any officer or agency fr-om which any function is tr-ansferred by 
this Act shall, except to the extent modified or made inapplicable by or 
under authority of law, continue in effect as if such transfer liad not 
been made; but after such transfer, references irr such statute, regula-
tion, or other action to an officer or agency from which a tr-ansfer is 
made by this Act shall be held and considered to refer to the officer or 
agency to which the transfer is made. 
(h) As used in subsection (a), the term "other action" includes, 
"other action." 
without limitation, any nrle, or-cler, contract, compact, policy, deter-
mination, directive, grant, authorization, permit, requirement, or 
designation. 
(c) Unless otherwise specifically provided in this Act, nothing con-
tained in this Act shall be construed as affecting the applicability to 
tlie District gov^ernment of personnel legislation r-elating to the Dis-
trict gover-nment until such time as the Council may otherwise elect to 
provide etpial or equivalent coverage. 
TEXDIXG ACTIONS ANr:) PliOCEEDINGS 
SEC. 715. (a) No suit, action, or other judicial proceeding lawfully 
commenced by or against any officer- or agency in his or its official 
capacity or in relation to the exercise of his or its official functions, 
shall abate by reason of the taking effect of any provision of this Act; 
but the cour-t, unless it deternrines that the survival of such suit, action, 
or other- proceedings is not necessary for purposes of settlement of the 
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[87 STAT. 
questions involved, tiliall allow the same to be maintained, with such 
substitutions as to parties as are appropriate. 
(b) No administrative action or proceeding lawfully commenced 
shall abate solely by reason of the taking effect of any provision of this 
Act, but such action or proceeding shall be continued with such substi-
tutions as to parties and officers or agencies as are appropriate. 
VACANCIES KESn.TTXG FROM AliOLISHMENT OF OFFICES OF COMMISSIONER 
AND ASSISTANT TO T H E 
COMMISSIONER 
SEC. 716. Until the 1st day of July next after the first Mayor takes 
office under this Act no vacancy occurring in any District agency by 
reason of se(?tion 711, abolishing the offices of Commissioner of the 
District of Columbia and Assistant to the Commissioner, shall affect 
the power of the remaining members of such agency to exercise its 
functions; but such agency may take action only if a majority of the 
members holding office vote in favor of it. 
STATUS OF T H E DISTRICT 
SEC. 717. (a) All of the territory constituting the permanent seat 
of the Government of the United States shall continue to be designated 
as the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia shall remain 
and continue a body corporate, as provided in section 2 of the Revised 
20 Stat. 102. 
Statutes relating to the District (D.C. Code, sec. 1-102). Said Cor-
poration shall continue to be charged with all the duties, obligations, 
responsibilities, and liabilities, and to be vested with all of the powers, 
rights, i^rivileges, immunities, and assets, respectively, imposed upon 
and vested in said Corporation or the Commissioner. 
(b) No law or regulation which is in force on the effective date of 
title IV of this Act shall be deemed amended or repealed by this Act 
except to the extent specifically provided herein or to the extent that 
such law or regulation is inconsistent with this Act, but any such law 
or regulation may be amended or repealed by act or resolution as 
authorized in this Act, or by Act of Congress, except that, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 752 of this Act, such authority to 
repeal shall not be construed as authorizing the Council to repeal or 
otherwise alter, by amendment or otherwise, any provision of sub-
chapter I I I of chapter 73 of title 5, United States Code, in whole or 
in part. 
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall affect the boundary line 
between the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Virginia 
as the same was established or may be subsequently established under 
the provisions of title I of the Act of October 31, 1945 (59 Stat. 552). 
80 Stat. 525. 
5 u s e 7321. 
D.C. Code 
1-101 note. 
COXTINUATK^N OF T H E DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT SYSTEM 
SEC. 718. (a) The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the 
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and the District of 
Columbia Connnission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure shall con-
tinue as provided under the District of Columbia Court Reorganiza-
^'*^*^^''^'*''^* 
tion Act of 1970 subiect to the provisions of part C of title IV of 
D.C. Code note 
, i • 
i 
. 
'-, 
,• 
nAr, / 
\ 
/ A \ 
prec. 11-101. 
this Act and section 602(a) (4). 
(b) The term and qualifications of any judge of any District of 
Columbia court, and the term and qualifications of any member of 
the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and 
Tenure appointed prior to the effective date of title IV of this Act 
shall not be affected by the provisions of part C of title IV of this 
Act. No provision of this Act shall be construed to extend the term 
of any such judge or member of such Commission. Judges of the 
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District of Cohiiiibia courts and members of the District of Columbia 
Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure appointed after the 
effective date of title IV of this Act shall be appointed according to 
part C of such title IV. 
(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to amend, repeal, or 
diminish the duties, rights, privileges, or benefits accruing under sec-
tions 1561 through 1571 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, 
^^ stat. 449. 
and sections 703 and 904 of such title, dealing with the retirement and 
^
"
^ ^'^'- '^'^^' 
compensation of the judges of the District of Columbia courts. 
CONTINUATION OF T H E BOARD OF EDUCATION 
SEC. 719. The term of any member elected to the District of Colum-
bia Board of Education, and the powers and duties of the Board of 
Education, shall not be affected by the provisions of section 495. No 
provision of such section shall be construed to extend the term of any 
such member or to terminate the term of any such member. 
PART C—TEMPORARY PROVISIONS 
POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT DURING TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 
SEC. 721. The President of the United States is hereby authorized 
and reciuested to take such action during the period following the date 
of the enactment of this Act and ending on the date of the first meet-
ing of the Council, by Executive order or otherwise, with respect to 
the administration of the functions of the District government, as 
lie deems necessary to enable the Board of Elections properly to per-
form its functions under this Act, 
ItEIMBl RSABLE APPROPRIATIONS FOR T H E DISTRICT 
SEC. 722. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to 
advance to the District of Columbia the sum of $750,000, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for use (1) in 
paying the expenses of the Board of Elections (including compensa-
tion of the members thereof), and (2) in oAerwise carrying into 
effect the provisions of this Act. 
(b) The full amount expended out of the money advanced pursuant 
to this section shall be reimbursed to the United States, without inter-
est, during the second fiscal year which begins after the effective date 
of title IV, from the general fund of the District. 
INTERIM LOAN AUTHORITY 
SEC. 728. (a) The Mayor is authorized to accept loans for the Dis-
trict from the Treasury of the United States, and the Secretary is 
authorized to lend to the Mayor, such sums as the Mayor may deter-
mine are required to complete capital projects for which construction 
and construction services funds have been authorized or appropriated, 
as the case may be, by Congress prior to the effective date of title IV. 
In addition, such loans may include funds to pay the District's share 
of the cost of the adopted regional system specified in the National 
Capital Transportation Act of 1969. 
83 stat. 320. 
(b) Loans advanced pursuant to this section during any six-month 
^.c. code 1-
period shall be at a rate of interest determined by the Secretary as ^^^inte^el^rate. 
of the beginning of such period, which, in his judgment, would reflect 
the cost of money to the Treasury for borrowing at a maturity approx-
imately equal to the period of time the loan is outstanding. 
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[87 
STAT. 
Appropriation. 
(c) Subject to the limitations contained in section 603(b), there are 
authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to malce 
loans under this section. 
PART D—MISCELLANEOUS 
Federal govern-
ment services. 
Delegation of 
functions. 
Costs, payment. 
Metropolitan 
police, assistance 
to U.S. Secret 
Service and Ex-
ecutive Protective 
Service. 
65 Stat. 122; 
84 Stat. 1941. 
65 Stat. 712. 
76 Stat. 1124. 
AGREEMENTS W I T H UNITED STATES 
SEC. 731. (a) For the purpose of preventing duplication of effort or 
for the purpose of otherwise promoting efficiency and economy, any 
Federal officer or agency may furnish services to the District govern-
ment and any District officer or agency may furnish services to the 
Federal Government. Except where the terms and conditions govern-
ing the furnishing of such services are prescribed by other provisions 
of law, such services shall be furnished pursuant to an agreement (1) 
negotiated by the Federal and District authorities concerned, and (2) 
approved by the Director of the Federal Office of JNIanagement and 
Budget and by the Mayor. Each such agreement shall provide that 
the cost of furnishing such services shall be borne in the manner pro-
vided in subsection (c) by the government to which such services are 
furnished at rates or charges based on the actual cost of furnishing 
such services. 
(b) For the purpose of carrying out any agreement negotiated and 
approved pursuant to subsection (a), any District officer or agency 
may in the agreement delegate any of his or its functions to any Fed-
eral officer or agency, and any Federal officer or agency may in the 
agreement delegate any of his or its functions to any District officer 
or agency. Any function so delegated may be exercised in accordance 
with the terms of the delegation. 
(c) The cost to each Federal officer and agency in furnishing sei'v-
ices to the District pursuant to any such agreement are authorized to 
be paid, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, out of appi-o-
priations available to the District officers and agencies to which 
such services are furnished. The costs to each District officer- and 
agency in furnishing services to the Federal Government pursuant 
to any such agreement are authorized to be paid, in accordance with 
the terms of the agreement, out of appropriations made by the Con-
gress or other funds available to the Federal officers and agencies to 
which such services are furnished, except that the Chief of the Metro-
politan Police shall on a nonreimbursable basis when requested by 
the Director of the United States Secret Service assist the Secret Serv-
ice and the Executive Protection Service in the performance of their 
respective protective duties under section 3056 of title 18 of the 
United States Code and section 302 of title 3 of the LTnited States Code. 
PERSONAL INTEREST I N CONTRACTS OR TRANSACTIONS 
SEC. 732. Any officer or employee of tlie District who is convicted of 
a violation of section 208 of title 18, United States Code, shall forfeit 
[lis office or position. 
COMPENSATION FROM :\r()RE TITAN ONE SOURCE 
SEC. 733. (a) Except as provided in this Act, no person shall be 
ineligible to serve or to receive compensation as a member of the Board 
of Elections because he occupies another office or i^osition or because he 
receives compensation (including retirement compensation) 
from 
another source. 
(b) The right to another office or position or to compensation from 
another source otherwise secured to such a person under the laws of the 
Ante, 
p. 791. 
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823 
United States shall not be abridged by the fact of his service or receipt 
of compensation as a member of such Board, if such service does not 
interfere with the discharge of his duties in such other office or 
position. 
ASSISTANCE OF T H E UNITED STATES CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION I N 
DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRICT MERIT 
SYSTEM 
SEC. 734. The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby 
authorized to advise and assist the Mayor and the Council in the fur-
ther development of the merit system or systems required by section 
422(3) and the said Commission is authorized to enter into agree-
ments with the District government to make available its registers of 
eligibles as a recruiting source to fill District positions as needed. The 
costs, 
costs of any specific services furnished by the Civil Service Commis-
sion may be compensated for under the provisions of section 731 of 
this Act. 
R E V E N U E 
SHARING 
RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 735. Section 141(c) of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance 
Act of 1972 (86 Stat. 919) is amended to read as follmvs: 
3i use uei. 
"(c) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—For purposes of this title, tlie District 
of Columbia shall be ti'eated both— 
"(1) as a State (and any reference to the Governor of a State 
shall, in the case of the District of Columbia, be treated as a 
reference to the Mayor of the District of Columbia), and 
"(2) as a county area which has no units of local government 
(other than itself) within its geographic area.". 
INDEPENDENT 
A I D I T 
Annual GAG 
audit. 
SEC. 736. (a) In addition to the audit carried out under section 455, 
the accounts and operations of the District government shall be 
audited annually by the General Accounting Office in accordance with 
such j)rinciples and procedures, and in such detail, and under such 
rules and I'egulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General 
of the ITnited States. In the determination of the auditing procedures 
to be followed and the extent of the examination of vouchers and 
other documents, the Comptroller General shall give due regard to 
generally accepted principles of auditing, including consideration of 
the effectiveness of the accounting organizations and systems, inter-
nal audit and control, and related administrative practices. The rep- j^^f^'^'^^' ^""^^^ 
resentatives of the Genei-al Accounting Office shall have access to all 
books, accounts, records, re])oi"ts, files, and all other papers, things, or 
property belonging to or in use by the District and necessary to 
facilitate the audit, and such representatives shall be afforded full 
facilities for auditing the accounts and operations of the District 
govei'iiment. 
(b) (1) The Comptroller General shall submit his audit reports to 
^®P°f*^ '° ^°"; 
the Congress, the Mayor, and the Council. The reports shall set forth 
the scope of the audits and shall include such comments and informa-
tion as the Comptroller General may deem necessary to keep the Con-
gress, the Mayor, and the Council informed of the operations to which 
the reports relate, together with such recommendations with respect 
thereto as the Comptrollei- General may deem advisable, 
(2) After the Mayor has had an opportunity to be heard, the Council .j^^"^^^'^ inspec 
may make such report, together with such other material as it deems 
pertinent thereto, available for public inspection. 
gress, Mayor, and 
Council. 
tion. 
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[87 STAT. 
Audit recommen-
dations, com-
pliance. 
(3) The Mayor, within lunety days after receipt of the audit from 
the Comptroller General, shall state in writing to the Council, with 
a copy to the Congress, what has been done to comply with the recom-
mendations made by the Comptroller General in the report. 
Debt payment. 
Demonstration 
costs, reimburse-
ment. 
Surety bond. 
Premiums, pay-
ment. 
ADJUSTMENTS 
SEC. 737. (a) Subject to section 731, the Mayor, with the approval 
of the Council, and the Director of the Oifice of Management and 
Budget, is authorized and empow^ered to enter into an agreement or 
agreements concerning the manner and method by w^hich amounts 
owed by the District to the United States, or by the L^nited States to 
the District, shall be ascertained and paid. 
(b) The United States shall reimburse the District for necessary 
expenses incurred by the District in connection with assemblages, 
marches, and other demonstrations in the District W'hich relate pri-
marily to the Federal Government. The manner and method of ascer-
taining and paying the amounts needed to so reimburse the District 
shall be determined by agreement entered into in accordance with 
subsection (a) of this section. 
(c) Each officer and employee of the District required to do so by 
the Council shall provide a bond wath such surety and in such amount 
as the Council may require. The premiums for all such bonds shall be 
paid out of appropriations for the District. 
Petition re-
quirement. 
Elections. 
Administration. 
Functions. 
Notices. 
ADVISORY XEIGIIBORIIOOD 
COUNCILS 
Shid. 738. (a) The Council shall by act divide the District into 
neighborhood council areas and, upon receiving a petition signed by 
at least 5 per centum of the I'egistered qualified electors of a neighbor-
hood council area, shall establish for that neighborhood an elected 
advisory neighborhood council. In designating such neighborhoods, 
the Council shall consider natural geographic boundaries, election 
districts, and divisions of the District made for the purpose of admin-
istration of services. 
(b) Elections for members of each advisory neighborhood council 
shall be nonpartisan, shall be scheduled to coincide with the elections 
of members of the Board of Education held in the District, and shall 
be administered by the Board of Elections. Advisory neighborhood 
council members shall be elected from single member districts within 
each neighborhood council area by the registered qualified electors 
thereof. 
(c) Each advisory neighborhood council— 
(1) may advise tlie District government on matters of public 
policy including decisions regarding planning, streets, recreation, 
social services programs, health, safety, and sanitation in that 
neighborhood council area; 
(2) may employ staff and expend, for public purposes within its 
neighborhood council area, public funds and other funds donated 
to it; and 
(3) shall have such other powers and duties as may be provided 
by act of the Council. 
(d) In the manner provided by act of the Council, in addition to any 
other notice required by law, timely notice shall be given to eacli 
advisory neighborhood council of requested or proposed zoning 
changes, \ari^nces. public unprovements, licenses or permits of signifi-
cance to ueighborliood planning and development within its neigh-
borhood council area for its review, comment, and recommendation. 
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825 
(e) In order to pay the expenses of the advisory neighborhood 
councils, enable them to employ such staff as may be necessary, and to 
conduct programs for the welfare of the people in a neighborhood 
council area, the District government shall apportion to each advisory 
neighborhood council, out of the revenue of the District received from 
the tax on real property in the District including improvements 
thereon, a sum not less than that part of such revenue raised by levying 
1 cent per $100 of assessed valuation which bears the same ratio to the 
full sum raised thereby as the population of the neighborhood bears to 
the population of the District. The Council may authorize additional 
methods of financing advisory neighborhood councils. 
(f) The Council shall by act make provisions for the handling of 
funds and accounts by each advisory neighborhood council and shall 
establish guidelines with respect to the employment of persons by each 
advisory neighborhood council which shall include fixing the status 
of such employees with respect to the District government, but all 
such provisions and guidelines shall be uniform for all advisory 
neighborhood councils and shall provide that decisions to employ and 
discharge employees shall be made by the advisory neighborhood 
council. These provisions shall conform to the extent practicable to the 
regular budgetary, expenditure and auditing procedures and the 
personnel merit system of the District. 
(g) The Council shall have authority in accordance with the provi-
sions of this Act, to legislate with respect to the advisory neighbor-
hood councils established in this section. 
(h) The foregoing provisions of this section shall take effect only if 
agreed to in accordance witli tlie provisions of section 703(a) of this 
Act. 
XATIOXAL CAPITAL SERVICE AREA 
SEC. 739. (a) There is establislied within the District of Columbia 
tlie National Capital Service Area which shall include, subject to the 
following provisions of this section, the principal Federal monuments, 
the White House, tlie Capitol Building, the United States Supreme 
Court Building, and the Federal executive, legislative, and judicial 
office buildings located adjacent to the Mall and the Capitol Building, 
and is more particularly described in subsection (f). 
(b) There is established in the Executive Office of the President the 
National Ca})ital Service Director who shall be appointed by the Pres-
ident. The President, through the National Capital Service Director, 
shall assure that there is j)rovided, utilizing District of Columbia gov-
ei-nmental services to the extent practicable, within the area specified in 
subsection (a) and particularly described in subsection (f), adequate 
fire })]"otection and sanitation services. Except with respect to that 
))ortion of the National Capital Service Area comprising the United 
States Capitol Buildings and Grounds as defined in sections 1 and 16 
of the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended (40 U.S.C. 193a and 193m), 
the United States Supreme Court Building and Grounds as defined in 
section 11 of the Act of August 18, 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 13p), 
and the Library of Congress Buildings and Grounds as defined in sec-
tion 11 of the Act of August 4, 1950, as amended (2 U.S.C. 167j), the 
National Cai)ital Service Director shall assure that there is provided 
within the remainder of such area specified in subsection (a) and sub-
section (f), adequate police i:)rotection and maintenance of streets and 
highwavs. 
(c) The National Capital Service Director shall be entitled to 
receive compensation at the maximum rate as may be established from 
time to time for level IV of the Executive Schedule of section 5314 of 
title 5 of the T'^nited States Code. The Director may appoint, subject 
to the provisions of title 5 of the United States Code governing 
appointments in the competitive service, and fix the pay of, in accord-
Council ex-
penses, funds, ap-
portionment. 
Employment 
guidelines. 
Legislative 
thority. 
Establishment. 
60 Stat. 718; 
81 Stat. 275. 
D.C. Code 
9-118, 9-132. 
63 Stat. 617. 
64 Stat. 412; 
84 Stat. 309. 
Compensation. 
5 u s e 101 (it 
seq. 
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[87 STAT. 
80 Stat. 443, 
467. 
5 u s e 5101, 
5331. 
25 Stat. 778; 
35 Stat. 634. 
Presidential re-
port to Congress. 
Boundaries. 
ance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter 3 of chapter 53 
of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, 
such personnel as may be necessary. 
(d) Section 45 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the orga-
nization of the militia of the District of Columbia", approved March 1, 
1889 (D.C. Code, sec. 39-603), is amended by inserting 
after 
"United States Marshal for the District of Columbia," the following: 
"or for the National Capital Service Director,". 
(e) (1) Within one year after the effective date of this section, the 
President is authorized and directed to submit to the Congress a report 
on the feasibility and advisability of combining the Executive Protec-
tive Service and the United States Park Police within the National 
Capital Service Area, and placing them under the National Capital 
Service Director. 
(2) Such report shall include such recommendations, including rec-
ommendations for legislative and executive action, as the President 
deems necessary in carrying out the provisions of paragraph (1) of 
this subsection. 
(f) (1) (A) The National Capital Service Area referred to in sub-
section (a) is more particularly described as follows: 
Beginning at that point on the present Virginia-District of 
Columbia boundary due west of the northernmost point of Theo-
dore Roosevelt Island and running due east to the eastern shore 
of the Potomac River; 
thence generally south along the shore at the mean high water 
mark to the northwest corner of the Kennedy Center; 
thence east along the north side of the Kennedy Center to a 
point where it reaches the E Street Expressway; 
thence east on the expressway to E Street Northwest and thence 
east on E Street Northwest to Eighteenth Street Northwest; 
thence south on Eighteenth Street Northwest to Constitution 
Avenue Northw^est; 
thence east on Constitution Avenue to Seventeenth Street North-
west ; 
thence north on Seventeenth Street Northwest to Pennsylvania 
Avenue Northwest; 
thence east on Pennsylvania Avenue to Jackson Place North-
west ; 
thence north on Jackson Place to H Street Northwest; 
thence east on H Street Northwest to Madison Place North-
west; 
thence south on Madison Place Northwest to Pennsylvania Ave-
nue Northwest; 
thence east on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest to Fifteenth 
Street Northwest; 
thence south on Fifteenth Street Northwest to Pennsylvania 
Avenue Northwest; 
thence southeast on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest to John 
Mar-shall Place Northwest; 
thence north on John Marshall Place Northwest to C Street 
Northwest; 
thence east on C Street Northwest to Third Street Northwest; 
thence north on Third Street Northwest to D Street Northwest; 
thence east on D Street Northwest to Second Street Northwest; 
thence south on Second Street Northwest to the intersection of 
Constitution Avenue Northwest and Louisiana Avenue North-
west ; 
thence northeast on Louisiana Avenue NortliAvest to North Cap-
itol Street; 
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827 
thence north on Xortli Capitol Street to Massachusetts Avenne 
Northwest; 
thence southeast on Massachusetts Avenue Xoithwest so as to 
encompass Union Square; 
thence following Union Square to F Street Northeast ; 
thence east on F Street Northeast to Second Street Northeast; 
thence south on Second Street Northeast to D Street Northeast; 
thence west on D Street Northeast to First Street Northeast; 
thence south on First Street Northeast to Maryland Avenue 
Northeast; 
thence generally north and east on Maryland Avenue to Second 
Street Northeast; 
thence south on Second Street Northeast to C Street Southeast; 
thence west on C Street Southeast to New Jersey Avenue South-
east ; 
thence south on New Jersey Avenue Southeast to D Street 
Southeast; 
thence west on D Street Southeast to Canal Street Parkway; 
thence southeast on Canal Street Pai'kway to E Street South-
east; 
thence west on E Street Southeast to the intersection of Canal 
Street Southwest and South Capitol Street; 
thence northwest on Canal Street Southwest to Second Street 
Southwest; 
thence south on Second Street Southwest to Virginia Avenue 
Southwest; 
thence generally west on Virginia AA^enue to Third Street 
Southwest; 
thence north on Third Street Southwest to C Street Southwest; 
thence west on C Street Southwest to Sixth Street Southwest; 
thence north on Sixth Street Southwest to Independence 
Avenue; 
thence west on Independence A^•enue to Twelfth Street South-
west ; 
thence south on Twelfth Street Southwest to D Street South-
west ; 
thence west on D Street Southwest to Fourteenth Street South-
west ; 
thence south on Fourteenth Street Southwest to the middle of 
the Washington Channel; 
thence generally south and east along the midchannel of the 
Washington Channel to a point due west of the northern bound-
ary line of Fort Lesley McNair; 
thence due east to the side of the Washington Channel; 
thence following gener-ally south and east along the side of 
the Washington Channel at the mean high water mark, to the 
point of confluence with the Anacostia River, and along the north-
ern shore at the mean high water mark to the northern most 
point of the Eleventh Street Bridge; 
thence generally south and east along the northern side of the 
Eleventh Street Bridge to the eastern shore of the Anacostia 
River; 
thence generally south and west along such shore at the mean 
high water mark to the point of confluence of the Anacostia and 
Potomac Rivers; 
thence generally south along the eastern sliore at the mean high 
water mark of the Potomac River to the point where it meets the 
present southeastern boundary line of the District of Columbia; 
thence south and west along such southeastern boundary line 
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[87 STAT. 
to the point where it meets the present Virginia-District of Colum-
bia boundary; 
thence generally north and west up the Potomac River along 
the Virginia-District of Columbia boundary to the point of 
beginning. 
(B) Where the area in paragraph (1) is bounded by any street, such 
street, and any sidew^alk thereof, shall be included wdthin such area. 
(2) Any Federal real property affronting or abutting, as of the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the area described in paragraph (1) shall 
be deemed to be within such area. 
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), Federal real property 
affronting or abutting such area described in paragraph (1) shall— 
(A) be deemed to include, but not limited to. Fort Lesley 
McNair, the Washington Navy Yard, the Anacostia Naval Annex, 
the United States Naval Station, Boiling Air Force Base, and the 
Naval Research Laboratory; and 
(B) not be construed to include any area situated outside of the 
District of Columbia boundary as it existed immediately prior to 
the date of the enactment of this Act, nor be construed to include 
any portion of the Anacostia Park situated east of the northern 
side of the Eleventh Street Bridge, or any portion of the Rock 
Creek Park. 
Presidential 
(g) (1) Subject to the provisious of paragraph (2) of this subsec-
^""•"^y" 
tion, the President is authorized and directed to conduct a survey of 
the area described in this section in order to establish the proper metes 
ti(^^^fiirn '^^^'^"^* and bounds of such area, and to file, in such manner and at such place 
as he may designate, a map and a legal description of such area, and 
such description and map shall have the same force and effect as if 
included in this Act, except that corrections of clerical, typographical 
and other errors in any such legal descriptions and map may be made. 
In conducting such survey, the President shall make such adjustments 
as may be necessary in order to exclude from the National Capital 
Service Area any privately owned properties, and buildings and adja-
cent parking facilities owned by the District of Columbia government. 
(2) In carrying out the provisions of paragraph (1) of this sub-
section, the President shall, to the extent that such survey, legal 
description, and map involves areas comprising the United States 
Capitol Buildings and Grounds as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the 
g^6o^stat.^7^i8; 
^^^t of July 31, 1946, as amended (40 U.S.C. 193a and 193m), and 
D.c. Code 
other buildings and grounds under the care of the Architect of the 
9-118, 9-132. 
Clapitol, consult with the Architect of the Capitol. 
(3) Section 1 of the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended by the Act 
of October 20, 1967 (60 Stat. 718; 81 Stat. 275; 40 U.S.C. 193a), is 
hereby amended to include within the definition of the United States 
Capitol Gi'ounds, the following streets: "Independence Avenue from 
the west curb of Fiist Street S.E. to the east curb of Fii-st Street S.W., 
New Jersey Avenue S.E. from the south curb of Independence Avenue 
to the noilh curb of D Street S.E., South Capitol Street from the 
south curb of Independence Avenue to the north curb of D Street; 
Delaware Avenue S.W. from the south curb of C Street S.W. to the 
north curb of D Street S.W., C Street from the west curb of First 
Street S.E. to the intersection of First and Canal Streets, S.W., D 
Street from the west curb of First Street S.E. to the intersection of 
Canal Street and Dehnvare Avenue S.W., that part of First Street 
Iving west of the outer face of the curb of the sidewalk on the east side 
thereof from I) Street. N.E. to D Street S.E., that part of First Street 
within the east and west curblines thereof extending from the north 
side of Pennsyhania Avenue N.W. to the intersection of C Street 
an«l Canal Stieet S.W.. includina: the two circles within such area. 
60 Stat. 719. 
D.C. Cod« 
D.C. Code 
-118. 
60 Stat. 720; 
84 Stat. 570. 
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Nothing in tliis .section shall be construed as repealing, or otlierwise 
altering, modifying, atfecting, or superseding those provisions of 
law in effect on the date immediately preceding the effective date of 
title IV of this Act vesting authority in the United States Supreme 
Court police and Library of Congress police to make arrests in adjacent 
streets, including First Street N.E. and First Street S.E."'. 
(4) Section 9 of the Act of July 81, 1946, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
212a), is amended by deleting "or of any State," and inserting in lieu 
thereof a comma and the following: "of the District of Columbia, or Q-Tie 
of any State,". 
(5) Section 9 of such Act is fui-ther amended by deleting the fol-
lowing: ", with the exception of the streets and roadways shown on 
the map referred to in section 1 of this Act as being under the jurisdic- 
^^y^^ ^-'^^ 
tion and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia.". 
(6) Section 14(a) of the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended (40 
U.S.C. 212b), is amended by deleting: '', except on those streets and 
roadways shown on the map referred to in section 1 of this Act as 
D.C. code 
being under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners of the 9-i3i. 
District of Columbia". 
(7) Section 1 of the Act of July 31, 1946, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
193a), is amended by deleting ": Provided^ That those streets and 
roadways in said Ignited States Capitol Grounds shown on said map 
as l)eing under the jurisdiction and control of the Commissioners of 
the District of Columbia shall continue under such jurisdiction and 
control, and said Commissioners shall be responsible for the mainte-
nance and improvement thereof: Provided further^'' and inserting in 
lieu thereof a comma and the following: "including those streets and 
roadways in said United States Capitol Grounds as shown on said 
map as being under \\\& jurisdiction and control of the Commission-
ers of tlie Disti'ict of (/'olumbia, except that the Commissioner of the 
Disti'ict of Columbia shall be responsible for the maintenance and 
im})rovement of those ])orti()ns of the following streets which are situ-
ated between the curblines thereof: Constitution Avenue from First 
Street X.K. to Second Street X.W., First Street from D Street N.Pl to 
D Stieet S.E., 1) Street from First Sti'eet S.E. to Canal Street S.W., 
and First Sti-eet fi"om the north side of Louisiana Avenue to the inter-
section of C Street and Canal Stieet S.W.: ProvkJed^\ 
(8) Section 9 of the Act of August 18. 1949, as amended (40 TJ.S.C. 
13n), is amended by deleting "or of any State" and inserting in lieu 
es stat. eiv. 
thereof a comma and the following: "any law of the District of 
Columbia, or of any State,". 
(9) Section 9 of the Act of August 4, 1950, as amended (2 U.S.C. 
167h), is amended by deleting "or of any State" and inserting in lieu 
64 stat. 412. 
thereof a comma and the following: "any law of the District of 
(^ohmibia, or of any State,". 
(h)(1) Except to \\\<i^ ^^i^wi specifically provided by the provisions 
of this section, and amendments made by this section, nothing in this 
section shall be applicable to ih^ United States Capitol Buildings and 
Giounds as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946, 
as amended (40 U.S.C. 193a. 193m), or to any other buildings and 
eo stat. 71s; 
grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol, the United ^^D^c^.'code' 
States Supreme Court Building and Grounds as defined in section 11 9-118, 9-132. 
of the Act of August 18. 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 13p), and the 
63 stat. 617. 
Librarv of (^ongress Buildings and Grounds as defined in section 11 
of the Act of August 4, 1950, as amended (2 U.S.C. 167j), and except 84^stft'^3*oV^' 
to the extent herein specifically provided, including amendments made 
by this section, nothing in this section shall be construed to repeal, 
amend, alter, modify, or supersede any provision of the Act of July 31, 
1946, as amended (40 TJ.S.C. 193a et seq.), or any other of the general 
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[87 STAT. 
laws of the United States or any of the laws enacted by the Congress 
and applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia, or any rule or 
regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, in effect on the date immedi-
ately preceding the effective date of title IV of this Act pertaining to 
said buildings and grounds, or any existing authority, with respect 
to such buildings and grounds, vested by law, or otherwise, on such 
date immediately preceding such effective date, in the Senate, the 
House of Representatives, the Congress, or any committee or commis-
sion or board thereof, the Architect of the Capitol, or any other officer 
of the legislative branch, the Chief Justice of the United States, the 
Marshal of the Supreme Court of the Linited States, or the I-ibrarian 
of Congress. 
Services and 
^2) Notwithstanding the foregoing provision of this section, any of 
abuity.^^' ^^^' 
the services and facilities authorized by this Act to be rendered or 
furnished (including maintenance of streets and highways, and serv-
ices under section 731 of this Act) shall, as far as practicable, be made 
available to the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Congress, 
or any committee or commission or board thereof, the Architect of 
the Capitol, or any other officer of the legislative branch vested by 
law or otherwise on such date immediately preceding the effective 
date of title IV of this Act with authority over such buildings and 
grounds, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Marshal of the 
Supreme Court of the United States, and the Librarian of Congress, 
upon their request, and, if payment would be required for the rendi-
tion or furnishing of a similar service or facility to any other Federal 
agency, payment therefor shall be made by the recipient thereof, upon 
presentation of proper vouchers, in advance or by reimbursement (as 
may be agreed upon by the parties rendering and receiving such 
services). 
(i) Except to the extent otherwise specifically provided in the pro-
visions of this section, and amendments made by this section, all 
general laws of the Ignited States and all laws enacted by the Con-
gress and applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia, includ-
ing regulations and rules promulgated pureuant thereto, in effect on 
the date immediately preceding the effective date of title IV of this 
Act and which, on such date immediately preceding the effective date 
of such title, are applicable to and within the areas included within 
the National Capital Service Area pursuant to this section shall, on 
and after such effective date, continue to be applicable to and within 
such National Capital Service Area in the same manner and to the 
same extent as if this section had not been enacted, and shall remain 
so applicable until such time as they are repealed, amended, altered, 
modified, or superseded, and such laws, regulations and rules shall 
thereafter be applicable to and within such area in the manner and 
to the extent so pro\ided by any such amendment, alteration, or 
modification. 
(j) In no case shall any person be denied the right to vote or other-
wise participate in any manner in any election in the District of Colum-
bia solely because such person resides within the National Capital 
Service Area. 
KlVrKROEXCY CONTROL OF POLICE 
SEC. 740. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when-
over the I'resident of the United States determines that special condi-
tions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the 
Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes, he may direct the 
Mayor to pi-ovide him, and the Mayor shall provide, such services 
of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary 
Limitation. 
.l^^^\ appi'opriato. In no case, however, shall such services made avail-
U.S. laws, ap 
plicability. 
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831 
able pureuaiit to any such direction under this subsection extend for 
a period in excess of forty-eight hours unless the President has, prior 
to the expiration of such period, notified the Chairman and ranking 
minority Members of the Committees on the District of Columbia of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, as to the 
reason for such direction and the period of time during which the 
need for such services is likely to continue. 
(b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, such 
services made available in accordance with subsection (a) of this 
section shall terminate upon the end of such emergency, the expiration 
of a period of thirty days following the date oh which such services are 
first made available, or the adoption of a resolution by either the 
Senate or the House of Representatives providing for such termina-
tion, whichever first occurs. 
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, in 
any case in which such services are made available in accordance with 
the provisions of subsection (a) of this section during any period of 
an adjournment of the Congress sine die, such services shall terminate 
upon the end of the emergency, the expiration of the thirty-day period 
following the date on which Congress first convenes following such 
adjournment, or the adoption of a resolution by either the Senate or 
the House of Representatives providing for such termination, which-
ever first occurs, 
(d) Except to the extent provided for in subsection (c) of this sec-
tion, no such services made available pursuant to the direction of the 
President pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall extend for 
any period in excess of thirty days, unless the Senate and the House of 
Representatives approve a concurrent resolution authorizing such an 
extension. 
HOLDING OFFICE IN THE DISTRICT 
SEC. 741. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person 
who is otherwise qualified to hold the office of Chairman or member of 
the Council or Mayor shall be disqualified from being a candidate for 
such office by reason of his employment in the competitive or excepted 
service of the United States. For the purposes of this section, a person 
shall be deemed to be a candidate on and after the date he qualifies 
under applicable provisions of law in the District to have his name 
placed on the ballot in either a primary or general election for the 
office for which he is a candidate. Such candidacy shall terminate— 
(1) with respect to a person w^ho has been defeated in a primary 
election held to nominate candidates for the office for which he 
is a candidate, on the day of such primary elex'tion ; 
(2) with respect to a person who is defeated in the general 
election held for the office for which he is a candidate, on the date 
of such general election; and 
(3) with respect to a person who is elected in the general elec-
tion held for the office for which he is a candidate, on the date 
such person assumes such office. 
Notification re-
quirement. 
Termination. 
Extension. 
OPEN MEETINGS 
SEC. 742. (a) All meetings (including hearings) of any depart-
ment, agency, board, or commission of the District government, includ-
ing meetings of the District Council, at which official action of any 
kind is taken shall be open to the public. No resolution, rule, act, 
regulation or other official action shall be effective unless taken, made, 
or enacted at such meeting. 
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[87 
STAT. 
Written tran-
script, availabil-
ity. 
(b) A written transcript or a transcription shall be kept for all 
such meetings and shall be made available to the public during normal 
business hours of the District government. Copies of such written 
transcripts or copies of such transcriptions shall be available upon 
request to the public at reasonable cost. 
Loan payment 
obligation. 
TERMINA'J'ION OF T H E DISTRICT'S AUTHORITY TO BORROW FROM THE 
TREASURY 
SEC. 743. (a) The first section of the Act entitled "An Act to 
authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to borrow 
funds for capital improvement programs and to amend provisions of 
law relating to Federal Government participa;tion in meeting costs of 
maintaining the Nation's Capital City", approved June 6, 1958 (72 
Stat. 183; D.C. Code, sec. 9-220), is amended by striking out sub-
sections (b), (c), (d), and (e). 
(b) The x\^ct entitled "An Act authorizing loans from the United 
States Treasury for the expansion of the District of Columbia water 
system", approved June 2,1950 (60 Stat. 195; D.C. Code, sec. 43-1540), 
is repealed. 
(c) Title II of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the financing of 
a program of public works construction for the District of Columbia, 
and for other purposes", approved May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 108), is 
amended by striking out sections 213, 214, 216, 217, and 218 (D.C. 
(^ode, sections 43-1612, 43-1613, 43-1615, 43-1616, and 43-1617), 
authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for sanitary and 
combined sewer systems of the District. 
(d) Section 402 of title IV of such Act approved May 18,1954 (68 
Stat. 110; D.C. Code, sec. 7-133), authorizing loans from the United 
States Treasury for the District of Columbia highway construction 
program, is repealed. 
(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to relieve the 
District of its obligation to repay any loan made to it under the author-
ity of the Acts specified in the preceding subsections, nor to preclude 
the District from using the unexpended balance of any such loan 
appi'opriated to the District prior to the effective date of this pro-
vision, nor to prevent the District from fulfilling the provisions of 
section 722. 
PART E—AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT 
69 Stat. 699; 
J5 Stat. 788. 
Ante, p. 311. 
Definitions. 
AMENDMENTS 
SEC. 751. The District of Columbia Election Act (D.C. Code, sees. 
1 1101—1-1115) is amended as follows: 
(1) The first section of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1101) is 
amended by inserting immediately after "Board of Education,", the 
following: '*the members of the Council of the Distiict of Columbia, 
the Mayor". 
(2) Section 2 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1102) is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: 
"(8) The term 'Council' or 'Council of the District of Columbia' 
means the (^ouncil of the District of Columbia established pursuant to 
the Distiict of (^olumbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorga-
nization Act. 
"(9) The term 'Mayor' means the office of Mayor of the District of 
Oihnnbia established pursuant to the District of Columbia Self-
GovernniiMit and Go\ernmental Reorganization Act." 
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(3) Subsections (h), (i), (j),and (k) of section 8 of such Act (D.C. 
Code, sec. 1-1108) are amended to read as follows: 
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"(h) (1) (A) The Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the District Coun- Ante^p. 312', 313. 
oil and the four at-large members of the Council shall be elected by 
jj^limln* o'f'^he°'' 
the registered qualified electors of the District of Columbia in a gen- Dirtri'^t'councu 
eral election. Each candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, Chair- and at-iarge mem-
man of the District Council, and at-large members of the Council in ^^"' election,, 
any general election shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 
(j) of this section and section 10(d), have been elected by the regis- g^l^ll^*^^^°^' 
tered qualified electors of the District as such candidate by the next 
D.c.'code' 
precedmg primary election. 
1-1110. 
" (B) (i) A member of the office of Council (other than the Chairman 
and any member elected at large) shall be elected in a general election 
by the registered qualified electors of the respective ward of the Dis-
trict from which the individual seeking such office was elected as a 
candidate for such office as provided in clause (ii) of this paragraph. 
"(ii) Each candidate for the office of member of the Council 
(other than Chairman and at-large members) shall, except as other-
wise provided in subsection (j) of this section and section 10(d), have 
been elected as such a candidate, by the registered qualified electors of 
the ward of the District from which such individual was nominated, 
at the next preceding primary election to fill such office within that 
ward. 
"(2) The nomination and election of any individual to the office of 
Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council and member of the Council 
shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. No political party 
Restrictions. 
shall be qualified to hold a primary election to select candidates for 
election to any such office in a general election unless, in the next pre-
ceding election year, at least seven thousand five hundred votes were 
cast in the general election for a candidate of such party for any such 
office or for its candidates for electors of President and Vice President. 
"(i) (1) Each individual in a primary election for candidate for the „Jj'°t"^^''°" 
office of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council, or at-large mem-
ber of the Council shall be nominated for any such office by a petition 
(A) filed with the Board not later than sixty days before the date of 
such primary election, and (B) signed by at least two thousand regis-
tered qualified electors of the same political party as the nominee, or 
by 1 per centum of the duly registered members of such political party, 
whichever is less, as shown by the records of the Board of Elections as 
of the one hundred fourteenth day before the date of such election. 
"(2) Each individual in a primary election for candidate for the 
office of member of the Council (other than the Chairman and at-large 
members) shall be nominated for such office by a petition (A) filed 
with the Board not later than sixty days before the date of such pri-
mary election, and (B) signed by at least two hundred and fifty per-
sons in the ward from which such individual seeks election who are 
duly registered in such ward under section 7 of this Act, and who are _ _^^^ ^^ 
of the same political party as the nominee. 
""D"C.'co'de' 
"(3) A nominating petition for a candidate in a primary election ^-^o^. 
for any such office may not be circulated for signature before the one lation^. ^°"' ''"^'^' 
hundred fourteenth day preceding the date of such election and may 
not be filed with the Board before the eighty-fifth day preceding such 
date. The Board may prescribe rules with respect to the preparation 
and presentation of nominating petitions. The Board shall arrange 
the ballot of each political party in each such primary election as to 
enable a voter of such party to vote for nominated candidates of that 
party. 
"(j) (1) A duly qualified candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, 
Chairman of the Council, or member of the Council may, subject to 
petition. 
69 Stat. 700; 
85 Stat. 790, 795. 
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[87 STAT. 
tlie provisions of this subsection, be nominated directly as sucli a can-
didate for election for such office (including any such election tobe 
held to fill a vacancy). Such person shall be nominated by petition 
(A) filed with the Board not less than sixty days before the date of 
such general election, and (B) in the case of a person who is a candi-
date for the office of member of the Council (other than the Chairman 
or an at-large member), signed by five hundred voters who are duly 
69 Stat. 700; 
registered under section 7 in the ward from which the candidate seeks 
D.c^. Code 
election; and in the case of a person who is a candidate for the office 
1-1107. 
of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council, or at-large member of 
the Council, signed by duly registered voters equal in number to l^^ 
per centum of the total number of registered voters in the District, as 
shown by the records of the Board as of one hundred fourteen days 
before the date of such election, or by three thousand persons duly 
registered under section 7, whichever is less. No signatures on such a 
petition may be counted which have been made on such petition more 
than one hundred fourteen days before the date of such election. 
''(2) Nominations under this subsection for candidates for election 
in a general election to any office referred to in paragraph (1) shall 
be of no force and eifect with respect to any person whose name has 
appeared on the l)allot of a primary election for that office held within 
eight months before the date of such general election. 
'"(k) (1) In each general election for the office of member of the 
Council (other than the office of the Chairman or an at-large member) 
the Board shall arrange the ballots in each ward to enable a voter 
registered in that ward to vote for any one candidate who (A) has 
l)een duly elected by any political party in the next preceding pri-
mary election for such office from such ward, (B) has been duly 
nominated to fill a vacancy in such office in such ward pursuant to sec-
69 Stat. 702. 
{[QJJ 10(d), or (C) lias been nominated directly as a candidate for such 
l
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office in such ward under subsection (i) of this section. 
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" (2) In each general election for the office of Chairman and member 
of the Council at hirge, the Board shall arrange the ballots to enable a 
registered qualified elector to vote for as many candidates for election 
as members at large as there are members at large to be elected in such 
election, including the Chairman. Such candidates shall be only those 
persons who (A) have been duly elected by any political party in the 
next preceding primary election for such office, (B) have been duly 
nominated to fill vacancies in such office pursuant to section 10(d), or 
(C) have been nominated dii-ectly as a candidate under subsection 
(j) of this section. 
'•(B) In each general election for the office of Delegate and Mayor, 
the Board shall arrange the ballots to enable a registered qualified 
elector to vote for any one of the candidates for any such office who 
(X) has been duly elected by any political party in the next preceding 
primary election for such office, (B) has been duly nominated to fill a 
vacancy in such office pursuant to section 10(d), or (C) has been nomi-
nated directly as a candidate under subsection (j) of this section.". 
(4) Paragraph (8) of section 10(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 
D^c.'^code^* 
1-1110) is amended (1) by inserting " ( A ) " immediately before the 
1-1110. 
word "Except", and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: 
Z^^Tf/L^^^'^' 
"(I^) Except as otherwise provided in the case of special elections 
under this Act pi-imary elections of each political party for the office 
of member of the Council shall be held on the fii-st Tuesday after the 
second Monday in September in 1974, and every second year there-
after, and general election for such offices shall be held on the first 
Tuesdav' after the fii'st ^Monday in November in 1974 and every sec-
ond vear thereafter. 
tion dates. 
General elec-
tions. 
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''(C) P^xcept as otherwise provided in the case of a special election 
under this Act, primary elections of each political party for the office 
of Mayor and Chairman shall be held on the first Tuesday after the 
second ^Vfonday in September of every fourth year, commencing with 
calendar year 1974, and the general election for such office shall be 
held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in 1974 
and every fourtli year thereafter.", 
(5) Paragraphs (6), (7), (8), and (9) of section 10(a) of such Act 
R^P^^I^-
(l).(^. Code, sec. 1-1110) are repealed, and paragraphs (4) and (5) of 
69 stat. 702; 
such section 10(a) are amended to read as follows: 
^'^ ^'^'' ^^°' 
•' (4) With respect to special elections required or authorized by this ^^^^^^'^^ ^^'"'" 
Act, the Board may establish the dates on which such special elections 
are to be held and j^rescribe such other terms and conditions as may, 
in the Board's opinion, be necessary or appropriate for the conduct of 
such elections in a manner comparable to that prescribed for other 
elections held pursuant to this Act. 
•' (5) General elections for members of the Board of Education shall 
be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Xo^•ember of 
each odd-numbered calendar year.'' 
(6) Section 10(b) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1110) is amended 
by striking out '"other than general elections for the Office of Delegate 
and for members of the Board of Education.". 
(7) Section 10(c) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1110) is amended 
by striking out the words "other than an election for members of the 
Board of Education". 
(8) Section 10(d) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1110) is amended 
to i-ead as follows: 
"(d) In the event that any official, other than the Delegate, Mayor, 
succession. 
member of the (^ouncil. member of the Board of Education, or a win-
nei* of a primary election for the office of Delegate, Mayor, or member 
of the Council, elected pursuant to this Act dies, i-esigns. or becomes 
unable to serve duiing his or her term of office leaving no person 
elected j)nrsuant to this Act to serve the remainder of the unexpired 
term of office, the successor or successors to serve the remainder of such 
term shall be chosen pursuant to the rules of the duly authorized party 
committee, except that such successor shall have the qualifications 
recjuired by this Act for such office. In the event that sucli a vacancy 
vacancies. 
occurs in the office of a candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, 
or member of the Council who has been declared the winner in the 
preceding primary election of such office, the vacancy may be filled not 
later than fifteen days prior to the next general election for such office, 
by nomination by the party committee of the party which nominated 
his predecessor. In the e\ent that such a vacancy occurs in the office of 
Delegate more than eight months before the expiration of its term of 
office, the I^oard shall call special elections to fill such vacancy for the 
remainder of its term of office." 
(9) The first sentence of section 15 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 
1-1115) is amended to read as follows: "No person shall be a candi- 
§2 stat. 106 
date for more than one office on the Board of Education or the Council 
in any election for members of the Board of Education or Council, 
and no person shall be a candidate for more than one office on the 
Council in any pi'imary election." 
(10) Section 15 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1115) is further 
amended (1) by designating the existing text of such section as sub-
section (a), ajid (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
subsection: 
" (b) No person who is holding the office of Mayor, Delegate, Chair-
man or member of the Council, or member of the School Board shall, 
while holding such office, be eligible as a candidate for anv other of 
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[87 STAT. 
such offices in any primary or general election, unless the term of the 
office which he so holds expires on or prior to the date on which he 
would be eligible, if elected in such primary or general election, to 
take the office with respect to which such election is held." 
DISTRICT COUNCIL AUTHORITY OVER ELECTIONS 
SEC. 752. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or of 
any other law, the Council shall have authority to enact any act or 
resolution with respect to matters involving or relating to elections in 
the District. 
PART F—RULES OF CONSTRUCTION 
CONSTRUCTION 
SEC. 761. To the extent that any provisions of this Act are incon-
sistent with the provisions of any other laws the provisions of this 
Act shall prevail and shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of 
such laws. 
PART G—^EFFECTIVE DATES 
EFFECTIVE DATES 
SEC. 771. (a) Titles I and V, and parts A and G, and section 722, 
of title VII shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) Title I I shall take effect on July 1, 1974, except that any pro-
vision thereof which in effect transfers authority to appoint any citi-
zen member of the National Capital Planning Commission or the 
District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency shall take effect 
on January 2, 1975. 
(c) Titles I I I and IV shall take effect January 2, 1975, if title IV 
is accepted by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the 
District of Columbia voting on the charter issue in the charter 
referendum. 
(d) Title VI and parts B, D, and F, and sections 721 and 723, of 
title VII shall take effect only if and upon the date that title IV 
becomes effective. 
(e) Part E of title V I I shall take effect on the date on which title IV 
is accepted by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the 
District voting on the charter issue in the charter referendum. 
Approved December 24, 1973. 
Public Law 93-199 
December 26, 1973 
A N 
A C T 
[H. R. 11088] 
IJIQ provide emergency security assistance authorizations for Israel and 
Cambodia. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
_ Emergency 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That this Act may 
ecurity ssis - 
^^ cltcd as the "Emergency Security Assistance Act of 1973". 
SEC. 2. In addition to such amounts as may be otherwise authorized 
to be appropriated to the President for security assistance for the 
fiscal year 1974, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
ance Act of 1973.