Sec. 488. Cost of reservoirs on Potomac River.... Sec. 489. District's contributions to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Sec. 490. Revenue bonds and other obligations.. Sec. 491. Board of Elections PART F-INDEPENDENT AGENCIES Sec. 492. Zoning Commission Sec. 493. Public Service Commission. Sec. 495. Board of Education... Sec. Initiative, Referendum, and Recall Charter Amendments Act of 1977. TITLE V-FEDERAL PAYMENT Sec. 501. Duties of the Mayor, Council, and Federal Office of Management and 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..... TITLE VII-REFERENDUM; SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT; TEMPORARY PROVISIONS; MISCELLANEOUS; Amendments to DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION; AND EFFECTIVE DATES Sec. 711. Abolishment of existing government and transfer of functions.. 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 Sec. 724. Political participation in certain elections first held under this Act.. Sec. 733. Compensation from more than one source. Sec. 734. Assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission in development of District merit system Sec. 735. Revenue sharing restrictions... Sec. 736. Independent audit Sec. 737. Adjustments...... Sec. 738. Advisory neighborhood commissions Sec. 740. Emergency control of police. Page Sec. 741. Holding office in the District Sec. 742. Open meetings....... Sec. 743. Termination of the District's authority to borrow from the Treasury.. Sec. 751. Amendments...... Sec. 752. District Council authority over elections......... 76 77 77 PART E-AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT TITLE I-SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS SHORT TITLE SEC. 101. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia SelfGovernment and Governmental Reorganization Act". 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 certain 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 inhabitants of the District 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 possible, consistent with the constitutional mandate, relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters. (b) Congress further intends to implement certain recommendations 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. DEFINITIONS 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 Columbia provided for by part A of title IV. (3) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the District 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 Numbered 3 of 1967. (5) The term "Chairman" means, unless otherwise provided in this Act, the Chairman of the Council provided for by part A of title IV. (6) The term "Mayor" means the Mayor 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 any physical public betterment or improvement, the acquisition of property of a permanent (5) nature, or the purchase of equipment or furnishings, and includes (A) costs of any preliminary plans, studies, and surveys in connection with such betterment, improvement, acquisition, or purchase, (B) costs incidental to such betterment, improvement, acquisition, or purchase, and the financing thereof, including the cost of any election, professional fees, printing or engraving, production and reproduction of documents, publication of notices, taking of title, bond insurance, and interest during construction, and (C) the reimbursement of any fund or account for amounts expended for the payment of any such costs. (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 term "publish" and "publication", unless otherwise specifically provided herein, mean publication in a newspaper of general 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. (14) The term "resources" means revenues, balances, revolving funds, funds realized from borrowing, and the District share of Federal grant programs. (15) The term "budget" means the entire request for appropriations 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. (Amended, Dec. 23, 1981, 95 Stat. 1493, Pub. L. 97-105, § 1.) TITLE II-GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION REDEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY SEC. 201. The District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, sec. 5-801-5-820) is amended as follows: (a) Subsection (a) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5803(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 position shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day 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. 5803(b)) amended (1) by inserting after "forth" at the end of the first sentence of such section ", except that nothing in this section shall prohibit 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) by striking out in the second sentence "including the selection 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 procedures 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 government, a factfinding board to receive, hear, and act on such complaints and claims arising out of or in connection with administrative 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 noncash grant-in-aid to the project under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, shall, to the extent practicable, be carried out by an appropriate District of Columbia 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 therefore to the District of Columbia can be applied as a noncash local grant-in-aid, as defined by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development." |