LAPSE OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 806. Except as may be provided in the budget, all appropriations shall lapse at the end of the budget year to the extent that they shall not have been disbursed or lawfully encumbered. Six months after the close of a fiscal year encumbered balances may be pooled and held until all encumbrances have been liquidated, but for a total period not to exceed two years immediately following the close of such fiscal year.

GENERAL FUND

SEC. 807. The general fund of the District shall be composed of the revenues of the District other than the revenues applied by law to special funds. All fees received by any agency, officer, or employee of the District shall belong to the District government and shall be paid promptly to the Department of Finance for deposit in the appropriate fund.

CONTRACTS EXTENDING BEYOND ONE YEAR

SEC. 808. No contract involving expenditure out of the appropriations of more than one year shall be made for a period of more than five years; nor shall any such contract be valid unless made or approved by ordinance.

PART 2-ANNUAL POST AUDIT BY GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

INDEPENDENT ANNUAL POST-AUDIT

SEC. 821. (a) The General Accounting Office shall audit the financial transactions of the District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953, and for each fiscal year thereafter, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The audit shall be conducted at the place or places where the accounts are normally kept. The representatives of the General Accounting Office shall have access to all books, accounts, financial records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by the District and necessary to facilitate the audit, and they shall be afforded full facilities for verifying transactions with the balances or securities held by depositories, fiscal agents, and custodians.

(b) (1) A report of each such audit for each fiscal year shall be made by the Comptroller General to the Congress and to the District Council not later than January 15 following the close of the fiscal year for which such audit is made. The report so made to the Congress shall be promptly published in the Congressional Record. The report shall set forth the scope of the audit and shall include such comments and information as may be deemed necessary to keep the Congress and the District Council informed of the operations and financial condition of the District, together with such recommendations with respect thereto as the Comptroller General may deem advisable. The report shall also show specifically every program, expenditure, or other financial transaction or undertaking, which, in the opinion of the Comptroller General, has been carried on or made without authority of law.

(2) After the District Manager and the Director of the Department of Finance have had an opportunity to be heard, the District Council shall by resolution provide for the publication of such report together with such other material as it deems pertinent thereto.

(3) The District Manager, within ninety days after the report has been made to the Congress and the District Council, shall state in writing to the Congress and the District Council what has been done to comply with the recommendations made by the Comptroller General in the report. Such statement in writing made to the Congress shall be promptly published in the Congressional Record.

COST OF AUDIT

SEC. 822. The cost (as determined by the Comptroller General of the United States) of making the audit provided for by section 821 shall be borne by the

AMENDMENT OF BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING ACT

SEC. 823. Section 2 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921 (U. S. C., 1946 edition, title 31, sec. 2), is hereby amended by striking out "and the municipal government of the District of Columbia."

PART 3-ADJUSTMENT OF FEDERAL AND DISTRICT EXPENSES

ADJUSTMENT OF FEDERAL AND DISTRICT EXPENSES

SEC. 831. (a) After June 30 and on or before December 31 of each year, beginning with the calendar year 1952, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall certify to the District Manager the amount determined by the Director as the payment to be made pursuant to this section by the United States to the District, or by the District to the United States, as the case may be, for the next fiscal year. The amount of such payment (and by and to whom it shall be made) shall be determined as follows:

(1) There shall first be ascertained the sum of the following:

(A) The estimated cost, during the fiscal year for which the payment is to be made, of—

(i) auditing the financial transactions of the District by the General Accounting Office as provided in section 821,

(ii) services to be furnished by the Civil Service Commission to which sections 1307 and 1322 apply,

(iii) the care and custody of District inmates in Federal institutions the cost of which under sections 912 (b) (3) and 1403 is to be borne by the District; and

(iv) maintaining and improving the grounds, buildings, and other facilities used by the District under agreements with the National Park Service to the extent provided in section 904 (b); plus

(B) the estimated liability of the District under section 1321 to the United States (for the fiscal year for which the payment is to be made) with respect to retirement of officers and employees of the District; plus (C) the following percentages of the estimated expenditures, during the fiscal year for which the payment is to be made for purposes of the following courts and offices:

(i) 60 per centum in the case of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia,

(ii) 30 per centum in the case of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and

(iii) 60 per centum in the case of the office of the United States District Attorney for the District of Columbia and of the office of the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia.

(2) There shall then be ascertained the sum of the following:

(A) the estimated cost, during the fiscal year for which the payment is to be made, of the care and custody of Federal prisoners in District of Columbia Institutions the cost of which under section 912 (b) (3) is to be borne by the United States; plus

(B) the following percentage of the estimated collections of the fees and fines to be collected, during the fiscal year for which the payment is to be made, by the following courts and offices:

(i) 60 per centum in the case of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia,

(ii) 30 per centum in the case of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and

(iii) 60 per centum in the case of the Office of the United States District Attorney for the District of Columbia and of the Office of the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia.

(3) The sums estimated under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget finds that the estimates under such paragraphs for preceding fiscal years were too large or too small, except to the extent that such correction has already been made in connection with payments under this section

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(4) After the adjustments required by paragraph (3) have been made the smaller of the two sums shall be subtracted from the larger sum. If the adjusted sum ascertained under paragraph (2) is the larger, then the difference shall be paid by the United States to the District. If the adjusted sum ascertained under paragraph (1) is the larger, then the difference shall be paid by the District to the United States.

(b) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1954, and for each fiscal year thereafter the amount, if any, certified under subsection (a) of this section as payable by the United States to the District. Any amount appropriated under this authorization shall (on or before July 31 of the fiscal year for which the payment is made) be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Director of the Department of Finance.

(e) The District budget shall include provision for payment by the District to the United States of the amount, if any, certified under subsection (a) of this section as payable by the District to the United States. Such amount shall (on or before July 31 of the fiscal year for which the payment is made) be paid by the Director of the Department of Finance to the Secretary of the Treasury.

CREDITING OF CERTAIN FEES AND FINES

SEC. 832. No portion of the fees and fines collected (after June 30, 1953) by the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the office of the United States District Attorney for the District of Columbia, or the office of the United States Marshal for the District of Columbia shall be credited to the District.

TITLE IX-THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 901. (a) The following executive departments of the District are hereby created: The Department of Health, the Department of Welfare, the Department of Recreation, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Finance, the Department of Law, the Department of Public Works, the Department of Libraries, the Department of Labor, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Corrections, and the Department of Professional and Occupational Standards.

(b) Each such department shall be headed by a director who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the District Manager. The directors shall receive salaries at a rate to be fixed by the District Council by ordinance. Each director may delegate any of his functions to any officer, employee, or agency in his department. He may, with the approval of the District Manager, redelegate to any such officer, employee, or agency any function delegated to him by the District Manager.

(c) For the purposes of the provisions of this title which transfer functions, the functions of an agency include (1) the functions of the head of such agency, and (2) the functions, if any, transferred to such agency or head by section 323. (d) Each agency not abolished by this title, all the functions of which are transferred by this title to the director of an executive department, is hereby transferred to such department.

(e) Whenever the director of any executive department deems it appropriate for the administration of his functions, he may, with the approval of the District Manager

(1) reorganize or abolish any agency (other than a board or commismission) transferred by subsection (d);

(2) create new agencies within his department, and reorganize or abolish any agency so created;

(3) abolish the office or position of any officer or employee (other than a member of a board or commission) transferred to his department by section 1501; and

(4) create new offices and positions within his department, and abolish any office or position so created.

(f) Any vacancy occuring in any board or commission transferred by subsection (d) (other than a vacancy occuring in an ex-officio position) shall be

approval of the District Manager. Any member of any such board or commission (other than an ex officio member) may at any time be removed from his position as a member of such board or commission by the director of the transferee department with the approval of the District Manager. The District Council may be ordinance reorganize or abolish any such board or commission. Where members of such boards and commissions have heretofore been compensated out of fees paid to such boards and commissions, they shall hereafter receive such compensation as the District Council may fix by ordinance.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

SEC. 902. (a) The functions of the Health Department, the health officer, the coroner, and the Anatomical Board are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Health.

(b) The Health Department, the offices of health officer and assistant health officer, and the Anatomical Board are hereby abolished.

DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE

SEC. 903. (a) The functions of the Board of Public Welfare, the Director of Public Welfare, and the Office of the Supervisor of the Penny Milk and Food Conservation Programs are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Welfare.

(b) The office of Director of Public Welfare is hereby abolished.

DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION

SEC. 904. (a) The office of Superintendent of Recreation is hereby abolished, and the functions of such office and of the Recreation Board are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Recreation. The offices of the two members of the Recreation Board representing, respectively, the Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education are hereby abolished, and in their place a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission who resides in the District (designated by the Chairman thereof) and a member of the Board of Education (designated by the President thereof) shall serve as members of such Board.

(b) Except as provided in this subsection, all expenses incident to the maintenance and improvement of grounds, buildings, and other facilities in the District under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service shall be paid out of appropriations made by the Congress to such Service. The expenses (after June 30, 1953), as determined by the Director of the National Park Service, incident to the maintenance and improvement of such grounds, buildings, and other facilities as are used by the Director of the Department of Recreation for the purpose of conducting a program of public recreation for the benefit of residents of the District of Columbia under agreements pursuant to the Act of April 29, 1942, creating the District Recreation Board (56 Stat. 261; D. C. Code, 1940 edition, secs. 8-201 through 8-219), shall to the extent provided in such agreements be borne by the government of the District of Columbia as prescribed in section 831.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY

SEC. 905. (a) The functions of the Metropolitan Police force, the police surgeons, the Fire Department, the poundmaster, and the Department of Vehicles and Traffic are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Safety.

(b) The District Council may, by ordinance, abolish the office of poundmaster and direct the District Manager to contract with a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals for the care, in compliance with such conditions as the ordinance may prescribe, of stray animals.

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

SEC. 906. The functions of

(1) the District auditor, disbursing officer, assessor, and collector of taxes;

(2) the Department of the Treasury with respect to keeping accounts of

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(3) the Treasurer of the United States with respect to receiving, keeping, and disbursing moneys of the District; and

(4) the Comptroller General and the General Accounting Office with respect to the accounts of the District;

are, to the extent not inconsistent with the functions imposed upon him by any other provision of this Act, hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Finance.

DEPARTMENT OF LAW

SEC. 907. (a) The functions of the offices of corporation counsel and Recorder of Deeds of the District are transferred to the Director of the Department of Law, and the offices of corporation counsel and assistant corporation counsel are hereby abolished. The Director of the Department of Law shall act as legal adviser to all officers and agencies of the District government.

(b) All drafts of legislative proposals and ordinances prepared by any officer or employee of any agency of the District government other than the District Council, for consideration by the District Council, shall be submitted by the head of such agency to the Director of the Department of Law. The Director may make such changes in such drafts as he deems advisable, except that he may not make any change affecting any basic policy embodied in any such draft without the approval of the head of the agency in which it was prepared. All such drafts shall be submitted by the Director to the District Manager, who shall submit them to the District Council. The Director may submit with any such draft an opinion as to the legality of any proposal embodied therein.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS

SEC. 908. (a) The function of

(1) the Department of Construction, the Department of Sanitary Engineering, the Department of Inspection (except the functions of the Motion Picture Operators Examining Board, the Electrical Examining Board, the Board of Examiners of Steam and Other Operating Engineers, and the Plumbing Board), the Department of Highways (except the functions of the Automobile Board), the Office of the Surveyor, and the Office of the Chief Clerk, Public Works; and

(2) the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of Engineers of the Regular Army of the United States with respect to the reclamation and development of Anacostia Park;

are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Works. (b) The Departments of Construction, Sanitary Engineering, Inspection, and Highways, are hereby abolished.

(c) The functions of the National Capital Pork and Planning Commission and of the President of the United States, except their functions under the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), with respect to the acquisition of land for recreational areas in the District primarily for the benefit of residents of the District are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Public Works and the District Council, respectively. Acquisitions by such Director for recreational areas shall as far as possible conform to comprehensive plans developed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Before acquiring any such land such Director shall give notice of not less than thirty days to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. If within thirty days after the date of receipt of such notice the Commission notifies the Director that it disapproves the proposed acquisition as not being in conformity with such comprehensive plans, the Director may take the proposed action only if, after the day on which it receives such notice of disapproval, the District Council, by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members then holding office, passes a resolution authorizing him to take such action.

DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARIES

SEC. 909. The functions of the board of library trustees and of the librarian are hereby transferred to the Director of the Department of Libraries. The