Disapproval resolutions by the Congress (see also veto by the Congress)

such area in the manner and to the extent so provided by any such amendment, alteration, or modification.

(j) In no case shall any person be denied the right to vote or otherwise participate in any manner in any election in the District of Columbia solely because such person resides within the National Capital Service Area.

EMERGENCY CONTROL OF POLICE

SEC. 740. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the President of the United States determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes, he may direct the Mayor to provide him, and the Mayor shall provide, such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate. In no case, however, shall such services made available pursuant 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 contin

ue.

(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 on which such services are first made available, or the enactment into law of a joint resolution by the Congress providing for such termination, 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 enactment into law of a joint resolution by the Congress providing for such termination, whichever first occurs.

(d) Except to the extent provided for in subsection (c) of this section, 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 enact into law a joint resolution authorizing such an extension. (Amended Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 1975, Pub. L. 98-473, sec. 131 (i), (j).)

HOLDING OFFICE IN THE DISTRICT

SEC. 741. Repealed. Apr. 17, 1974, 88 Stat. 87, Pub. L. 93-268, § 4(c).

OPEN MEETINGS

SEC. 742. (a) All meetings (including hearings) of any department, agency board, or commission of the District government, including 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.

(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.

TERMINATION OF THE 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 participation in meeting costs of maintaining the National Capital City", approved June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183; D.C. Code, sec. 9-219), is amended by striking out subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e).

(b) The Act entitled "An Act authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for expansion of the District of Columbia water system", approved June 2, 1950 (64 Stat. 195; D.C. Code, sec. 431540), 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. Code, sections 43-1612, 43-1613, 43-1615, 43-1616, and 43–1617), thorizing loans from the United States Treasury for sanitary and combined sewer systems of the District.

au

(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) Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to plan, construct, operate, and maintain a sanitary sewer to connect the Dulles International Airport with the District of Columbia system", approved June 12, 1960 (74 Stat. 211; D.C. Code, sec. 43-1623), is repealed.

(f) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to relieve the District of its obligation to repay any loan made to it under the authority of the Acts specified in the preceding subsections, nor to preclude the District from using the unexpended balance of any such loan appropriated to the District prior to the effective date of this provision, not to prevent the District from fulfilling the provision of section 722. (Amended, Oct. 13, 1977, 91 Stat. 1156, Pub. L. 95-131, § 4.)