Home Rule Act, as Amended

74.D63/1:101-5

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

RONALD V. DELLUMS, California, Chairman WALTER E. FAUNTROY, District of

STAN PARRIS, Virginia Columbia

THOMAS J. BLILEY, JR., Virginia FORTNEY PETE STARK, California

LARRY COMBEST, Texas WILLIAM H. GRAY III, Pennsylvania

DANA ROHRABACHER, California MERVYN M. DYMALLY, California ALAN WHEAT, Missouri BRUCE A. MORRISON, Connecticut

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SELF-GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNMENTAL

REORGANIZATION Act 1

Public Law 93–198; 93rd Congress, S. 1435; December 24, 1973

(As amended or modified through October 31, 1989)

AN ACT To reorganize the government structure of the District of Columbia, to pro-

vide a charter for local government in the District of Columbia subject to accept-

ance by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia,

to delegate certain legislative powers to the local government, to implement cer-

tain recommendations of the commission on the organization of the government

of the District of Columbia, and the other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the

United States of America in Congress assembled,

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE I–SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS

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Sec. 101. Short title..

Sec. 102. Statement of purposes.

Sec. 103. Definitions.....

Pues ............

TITLE II-GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION

Sec. 201. Redevelopment Land Agency ..............

Sec. 202. National Capital Housing Authority ............

Sec. 203. National Capital Planning Commission and municipal planning ......

Sec. 204. District of Columbia Manpower Administration ....

TITLE III-DISTRICT CHARTER PREAMBLE, LEGISLATIVE POWER, AND CHARTER

AMENDING PROCEDURE

Sec. 301. District Charter preamble .....

Sec. 302. Legislative power ..........

Sec. 303. Charter amending procedure ...

TITLE IV–THE DISTRICT CHARTER

PART A-THE COUNCIL

Subpart 1-Creation of the Council

Sec. 401. Creation and membership.......

Sec. 402. Qualifications for holding office..............

Sec. 403. Compensation ....

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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 .............

1 This compilation began with the text of the Home Rule Act in Volume 1 of the 1981 D.C.
Code and its 1989 pocket part. Editing was done by Dale MacIver, senior staff counsel, with the
assistance of Michael Brodie, Roland T. Randolph, printing clerk, and William G. Wren, GPO
printer.

(EDITOR'S NOTE.—The references to sections of the D.C. Code contained throughout this re-

print, are to the 1981 edition of the D.C. Code and later supplements.)

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Sec. 413. Investigations by the Council.

PART B-THE MAYOR

Sec. 421. Election qualifications, vacancy, and compensation ......

Sec. 422. Powers and duties..

Sec. 423. Municipal planning ....

PART C-THE JUDICIARY

Sec. 431. Judiciary powers ...............

Sec. 432. Removal suspension, and involuntary retirement