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TITLE IV-GOVERNOR AND SECRETARY

Sec. 401. Appointment, qualifications, and salaries.
Sec. 402. Powers and duties of Governor.
Sec. 403. Powers and duties of Secretary.

Sec. 501. Fiscal year.

TITLE V-THE DISTRICT BUDGET

Sec. 502. Budgetary details fixed by Assembly.
Sec. 503. Adoption of budget.

Sec. 504. Budget establishes appropriations.
Sec. 505. Supplemental appropriations.

TITLE VI-BORROWING

PART 1-BORROWING FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

Sec. 601. Borrowing power; debt limitations.

Sec. 602. Contents of borrowing legislation; referendum on bond issue.
Sec. 603. Publication of borrowing legislation.

Sec. 604. Short period of limitation.

Sec. 605. Acts for issuance of bonds.

Sec. 606. Public sale.

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Sec. 901. Agreements with United States.

Sec. 902. Personal interest in contracts or transactions.

Sec. 903. Compensation from more than one source.

Sec. 904. Assistance of United States Civil Service Commission in development of District merit system.

TITLE X-SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT

Sec. 1001. Transfer of personnel, property, and funds.

Sec. 1002. Existing statutes, regulations, and so forth.

Sec. 1003. Pending actions and proceedings.

Sec. 1004. Vacancies resulting from abolition of Board of Commissioners.

TITLE XI-SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

Sec. 1101. Separability of provisions.

TITLE XII-TEMPORARY PROVISIONS
Sec. 1201. Powers of the President during transition period.
Sec. 1202. Reimbursable appropriation for the District.

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SEC. 101. For the purposes of this Act

(1) The term "District" means the District of Columbia.

(2) The terms "Legislative Assembly" and "Assembly" mean the Assembly of the District of Columbia provided for by title III.

(3) The terms "Chairman" and "Assembly Chairman" mean the Chairman of the Assembly provided for by title III.

(4) The terms "Governor" and "Secretary" mean the Governor and Secretary, respectively, provided for by title IV.

(5) The term "qualified elector" means a qualified elector of the District as specified in section 806, except as otherwise specifically provided.

(6) The term "act" includes any legislation adopted by the Assembly, except where the term "Act" is used to refer to this Act or other Acts of Congress herein specified.

(7) The term "District Primary Act" means the Act of August 12, 1955 (Public Law 376, Eighty-fourth Congress; 69 Stat. 699).

(8) The term "person" includes an individual, partnership, association, jointstock company, trust, or corporation.

(9) The terms "capital project" and "project" mean (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.

(11) The term "Board of Elections" means the Board of Elections created by section 3 of the District Primary Act.

(12) The term "election", unless the context otherwise indicates, means an election held pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

(13) The term "domicile" means that place where a person has his true, fixed, and permanent home and to which, when he is absent, he has the intention of returning.

(14) The term "municipal office" means an office of any governmental unit subordinate to a State or territorial government.

(15) The terms "publish" and "publication", unless otherwise specifically provided herein, mean publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the District.

TITLE II-STATUS OF THE DISTRICT

STATUS OF THE DISTRICT

SEC. 201. (a) All of the territory constituting the permanent seat of the Government of the United States shall continue to be designated as the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia shall remain and continue a body corporate, as provided in section 2 of the Revised Statutes relating to said District. Said Corporation shall continue to be charged with all the duties, obligations, responsibilities, and liabilities, and to be vested with all of the powers, rights, privileges, immunities, and assets, respectively imposed upon and vested in said Corporation, the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, any person appointed from civil life as a member of the Board of Commissioners of the District or the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia.

(b) No law or regulation which is in force on the effective date of part 2, title III, of this Act shall be deemed amended or repealed by this Act except to the extent that such law or regulation is inconsistent with this Act: Provided, That any such law or regulation may be amended or repealed by legislation or regulation as authorized in this Act, or by Act of Congress.

(c) The judicial courts of the District of Columbia shall remain as now organized until abolished or changed by Act of Congress; but the Assembly shall have power to enact acts conferring such additional jurisdiction on the juvenile court of the District of Columbia, the court of general sessions for the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia court of appeals as may be appropriate to the due execution and enforcement of the laws of the District of Columbia.

TITLE III-THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

PART 1-CREATION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

CREATION AND MEMBERSHIP

SEC. 301. There is hereby created the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia consisting of twenty-five members elected as provided in title VIII. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the legislative power and authority of the District as hereinafter set forth, is hereby vested in the Assembly.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR HOLDING OFFICE

SEC. 302. No person shall hold the office of member of the Assembly unless he (1) is a qualified elector, (2) is domiciled in the District and resides in the ward from which he is nominated, and has (a) during the three years next preceding his nomination resided and been domiciled in the District and (b) during the one year next preceding his nomination has not voted in any election (other than in the District) for any candidate for public office, and has resided in the ward from which he is nominated, (3) holds no other elective public office, and (4) holds no appointive office for which compensation is provided out of Federal or District funds. A member of the Assembly shall forfeit his office upon failure to maintain the qualifications required by this section.

COMPENSATION

SEC. 303. (a) Each member of the Assembly, except the Chairman, shall receive compensation at the rate of $1,500 per annum, payable in periodic installments. The Chairman shall receive compensation at a rate of $2,000 per annum, payable in periodic installments. All members shall receive such additional allowance for expenses as may be approved by the Assembly to be paid out of funds duly appropriated therefor.

(b) The compensation of members of the Assembly may be changed by act passed by the Assembly: Provided, That no such act shall take effect until January 1 of the first odd-numbered year following its approval.

PART 2-PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

FUNCTIONS HERETOFORE EXERCISED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

SEC. 321. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all functions granted to or imposed upon the Board of Commissioners of the District are hereby transferred to the Assembly except those powers hereinafter specifically conferred on the Governor.

(b) The Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia is hereby abolished, and all provisions of law providing for the Board of Commissioners of the District and the offices of Commissioner, Engineer Commissioner, and Assistants to the Engineer Commissioner of the District, are hereby repealed.

FUNCTIONS RELATING TO ZONING

SEC. 322. The Zoning Commission created by the first section of the Act of March 1, 1920, creating a Zoning Commission for the District of Columbia, as amended (D.C. Code, 1951 edition, 5-412), is hereby abolished, and its functions are transferred to the Assembly.

CERTAIN DELEGATED FUNCTIONS

SEC. 323. No function of the Board of Commissioners of the District which such Board has delegated to an officer or agency of the District shall be considered as a function transferred to the Assembly by section 321. Each such function is hereby transferred to the officer or agency to whom or to which it was delegated, until the Governor or Assembly, or both, pursuant to the powers herein granted, shall revoke, modify, or transfer such delegation.

LEGISLATIVE POWERS AND LIMITATIONS THEREON

SEC. 324. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the legislative power of the District shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within said District, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this Act, subject nevertheless, to all the restrictions and limitations imposed upon States by the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States; but all acts of the Assembly shall at all times be subject to repeal or modification by the Congress of the United States, and nothing herein shall be construed to deprive Congress of the power of legislation over said District in as ample manner as if this Act had not been enacted: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed as vesting in the District government any greater authority over the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia, the Armory Board, the National Guard of the District of Columbia, the Board of Education, the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency, the National Capital Housing Authority, or any Federal agency than was vested in the Board of Commissioners of the District prior to the effective date of part 2, title III of this Act.

(b) The Assembly may not pass any act contrary to the provisions of this Act, or

(1) impose any tax on property of the United States;

(2) lend the public credit for support of any private undertaking;

(3) authorize the issuance of bonds except in compliance with the provisions of title VI;

(4) grant any exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise;

(5) authorize the use of public money in support of any sectarian, denominational, or private school except as now or hereafter authorized by Congress;

(6) enact any act to amend or repeal any Act of Congress which concerns the functions or property of the United States or which is not restricted in its application exclusively in or to the District;

(7) pass any act inconsistent with or contrary to the Act of June 6, 1924 (43 Stat. 463), as amended by the Act of April 30, 1926 (44 Stat. 374), and by the Act of July 19, 1952 (66 Stat. 781), and the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, and the Assembly shall not pass any act inconsistent with or contrary to any provision of any Act of Congress as it specifically pertains to any duty, authority, and responsibilty of the National Capital Planning Commission; except insofar as the above-cited

or other referred to Acts refer to the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia or the Board of Commissioners of the District, the former of which terms, after the enactment of this Act, shall mean the Governor or some District government official deemed by the Governor to be best qualified, and designated by him to sit in lieu of the Governor as a member of the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Capitol Regional Planning Council, and the latter term shall mean the Assembly.

(c) Every act shall include a preamble, or be accompanied by a report, setting forth concisely the purposes of its adoption. Every act shall be published within seven days after its passage, as the Assembly may direct.

(d) An act passed by the Assembly shall be presented to the Governor and shall become law upon his approval as indicated by his signature. If any act so passed shall be disapproved by the Governor, he shall, within ten calendar days of its presentation, return such act to the Assembly setting forth his objections. If his disapproval is based in whole or in part upon a finding that such act adversely affects a Federal interest, he shall so inform the Assembly when setting forth his objections to such act. If any act so passed shall not be returned by the Governor as herein provided within ten calendar days after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall become law in like manner as if he had signed it. If, upon reconsideration of an act returned by the Governor, twothirds of the members of the Assembly vote to pass such act, it shall become law unless the Governor's disapproval was based in whole or in part upon a finding that such act adversely affects a Federal interest, in which case the Assembly shall again present the act to the Governor and the Governor shall forthwith transmit it to the President, advising the Assembly in writing that he has done If the President approves such act he shall sign it, and it shall thereupon become a law. If he does not approve it, he shall return it to the Governor so stating, and it shall not become law. The President shall approve or disapprove an act transmitted to him by the Governor, under the provisions of this subsection, within ten calendar days after its transmission to him; and if not acted upon within such time, it shall become law as if it had been specifically approved by him.

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PART 3-ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY; THE CHAIRMAN

SEC. 331. The Assembly shall elect from among its members a Chairman who shall be the presiding officer of the Assembly and a Vice Chairman, who shall preside in the absence of the Chairman. The terms of the first Chairman and Vice Chairman shall expire at the close of December 31, 1966, and at the close of December 31 of each succeeding even-number year the term of office of the incumbent Chairman and Vice Chairman shall expire.

CLERK OF THE ASSEMBLY; RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS

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SEC. 332. (a) The Assembly shall appoint a Clerk as its chief administrative officer and such assistants and clerical personnel as may be necessary. withstanding any other provision of this Act, the compensation and other terms of employment of such Clerk, assistants, and clerical personnel shall be prescribed by the Assembly.

(b) The Clerk shall (1) keep a record of the proceedings of the Assembly, (2) keep a record showing the text of all acts and resolutions introduced, and the ayes and noes of each vote, (3) authenticate by his signature and record in full in a continuing record kept for that purpose all acts passed by the Assembly, and (4) perform such other duties as the Assembly may from time to time prescribe.

MEETINGS

SEC. 333. (a) The first meeting of the Assembly after this part takes effect shall be called by the member who receives the highest vote in the election provided in title VIII. He shall preside until a Chairman is elected. The first meeting of the Assembly in each odd-numbered year commencing with 1965 shall be called by the Clerk of the Assembly for a date not later than January 7 of such year.

(b) The Assembly shall provide for the time and place of its regular meetings. The Assembly shall hold at least one regular meeting in each calendar year except

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