TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, Washington, D. C. Present: Senators Neely, Smith of North Carolina, and Case. Also present: Robert H. Mollohan, clerk; Gerhard P. Van Arkel, The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. The committee has convened to conduct hearings on S. 656. The [S. 656, 82d Cong., 1st sess.) TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE II-STATUS OF THE DISTRICT PART 1-CREATION OF DISTRICT COUNCIL Sec. 301. Creation and membership. Sec. 302. Qualifications for holding office. Sec. 303. Compensation. PART 2. PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL Sec. 321. Functions heretofore exercised by the Board of Commissioners. Sec. 322. Functions relating to zoning. Sec. 323. Certain delegated functions. Sec. 324. Ordinances. Sec. 325. Legislative proposals. 2. 326. Limitations on powers of District Council. Sec. 327. Creation and abolition of advisory boards and commissions. PART 3. ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL Sec. 331. The Chairman. Sec. 332. Secretary of the District Council; records and documents. Sec. 333. Meetings. Sec. 334. Form of legislative proposals and ordinances Sec. 335. Minimum period for considering legislative proposals and ordinances. Sec. 336. Procedure for zoning ordinances, Sec. 337. Investigations by District Council. TITLE IV-ACTION BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ON LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS PART 1--LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS : Sec. 401. Deposits and publications. Sec. 402. Disapproval by the Congress or by the President. Sec. 403. Emergency authority with respect to legislative proposals. Sec. 401. Reservation of congressional authority. Sec. 405. Printing in statutes at large. PART 2—RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE Sec. 421. Rule-making power of Senate and House. Sec. 422. Resolutions disapproving legislative proposals. 3. Concurrent resolutions received from other House. Sec, 501. Appointment, qualifications, and salary. Sec. 503. Assistants to the District Manager. Sec. 504. Executive office of the District Manager. Sec. 602. Budgetary details fixed by District Council. PART 1-BORROWING FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS Sec. 701. Borrowing power ; debt limitation. 702. Referendum on bond issue. . 703. Contents of legislative proposal. Sec. 704. Maximum maturity of bonds. ec. 705. Bonds payable in annual installments. Sec. 706. Publication of legislative proposal. Sec. 721, Borrowing to meet emergency appropriations. Sec. 722. Borrowing in anticipation of revenues. Sec. 723. Notes redeemable prior to maturity. PART 3~-PAYMENT OF BONDS AND NOTES Sec. 802. Director of the Department of Finance ; powers and duties. Sec. 803. Work Programs; allotments ; control of appropriations. Sec. 804. Accounting supervision and control. Sec. 803. When contracts and expenditures prohibited. TITLE IX—THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS Department of Laboarles. TITLE X-CERTAIN AGENCIES NOT UNDER THE DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION OF THE DISTRICT MANAGER Sec. 1001. Zoning Adjustment Board. ds. Title XI—BOARD OF EDUCATION TITLE XII-ELECTIONS IN THE DISTRICT TITLE XIII-APPOINTMENT, RECLASSIFICATION, AND RETIREMENT OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES PART 1-APPOINTMENT AND CLASSIFICATION Sec. 1301. Application of the Civil Service Act. Sec. 1302. Status of officers and employees of the District in the Federal classified civil service. District. PART 2-RETIREMENT TITLE XIV-MISCELLANEOUS TITLE XV-SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT Sec. 1501. Transfer of personnel, property, and funds. TITLE XVI—SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS TITLE XVII–TEMPORARY PROVISIONS Sec. 1701. Powers of the President during transition period. Sec. 1702. Reimbursable appropriation for the District for the period ending June 30, 1950. TITLE XVIII-EFFECTIVE DATES Sec. 1801. Effective dates. TITLE XIX-SUBMISSION OF CHARTER FOR REFERENDUM Sec. 1901. Charter referendum. TITLE XX-FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION Sec. 2001. Authorization of appropriation. TITLE I-DEFINITIONS DEFINITIONS SEC. 101. For the purposes of this Act, (2) The term “District Council" means the Council of the District of Columbia provided for by title III. (3) The term “Chairman” means the Chairman of the District Council provided for by title III. (4) The term “District Manager" means the District Manager provided for by title V. (5) The term “qualified elector” means a qualified elector of the District as specified in section 1206 (b). (6) The term “expenditure”, when applied to any period of time, includes an obligation to expend incurred during such period, but does not include a disbursement made in such period if the obligation to make such disbursement was incurred in a prior period. (7) The term “person” includes an individual, partnership, association, jointstock company, trust, or corporation. (8) The term “budget year” means the fiscal year for which any particular budget becomes effective and in which such budget is administered (9) The term "capital project", or "project”, means (a) any physical public betterment or improvement and any preliminary studies and surveys relative 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. (10) The term “pending", when applied to any capital project, means authorized but not yet completed. TITLE II—STATUTE OF THE DISTRICT STATUS OF THE DISTRICT SEC. 201. (a) All the territory which was ceded by the State of Maryland to the Congress of the United States for the permanent seat of the government of the United States shall continue to be designated as the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate in perpetuity for governmental purposes and as such may sue and be sued, |