TITLE IV-ACTION BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ON 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. 405. Printing in statutes at large. PART 2-RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE Sec. 421. Rule-making power of Senate and House. TITLE X-CERTAIN AGENCIES NOT UNDER THE DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION OF THE DISTRICT MANAGER 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. Sec. 1304. Noncompliance of the District with requirements of the Civil Service Commission. Sec. 1307. Payment for services rendered by Civil Service Commission. Sec. 1321. Liability of District. PART 2-RETIREMENT Sec. 1322. Payment for services rendered by Civil Service Commission. TITLE XIV-MISCELLANEOUS Sec. 1401. Agreements with United States. Sec. 1402. Personal interest in contracts or transactions. Sec. 1403. Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Sec. 1404. Register of Wills and Clerk of Probate Court. Sec. 1405. National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Sec. 1406. Certain functions now administered by Federal agencies. Sec. 1407. National Capital Housing Authority. Sec. 1408. Compensation from more than one source. Sec. 1409. Miscellaneous Federal agencies. TITLE XV-SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT Sec. 1501. Transfer of personnel, property, and funds. Sec. 1504. Vacancies resulting from abolition of Board of Commissioners. TITLE XVI-SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS Sec. 1601. 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.. Sec. 1801. Effective dates. TITLE XVIII-EFFECTIVE DATES SEC. 101. For the purposes of this Act (1) The term "District" means the District of Columbia. (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-STATUS 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, contract and be contracted with, and have a corporate seal. Such body politic and corporate is the successor of the District of Columbia created by section 2 of the Revised Statutes relating to the District of Columbia and continued by the first section of the Act of June 11, 1878 (D. C. Code, 1940 edition, section 1-102). So far as is consistent with the provisions of this Act, all powers, rights, privileges, immunities, duties, obligations, assets, and liabilities of the District of Columbia created by such section 2 are hereby transferred to, vested in, and imposed upon the body politic and corporate created by this section. (b) Section 1 of the Act of February 21, 1871 (16 Stat. 419) and section 1 of the Act of June 11, 1878, (20 Stat. 102) are hereby repealed. TITLE III-THE DISTRICT COUNCIL PART 1-CREATION OF DISTRICT COUNCIL CREATION AND MEMBERSHIP SEC. 301. (a) There is hereby created a Council of the District of Columbia consisting of eleven members, nine of whom shall be elected as provided in title XII, and two of whom shall be appointed, without regard to political affiliation, by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (b) The terms of the offices on the District Council to be filled by appointment shall be four years beginning on January 1 following the expiration of the preceding terms of such offices, except that (1) the terms of office of the first appointed members shall expire, as designated by the President at the time of appointment, one at the close of December 31, 1951, and the other at the close of December 31, 1953; and (2) the term of office of a member appointed to all a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which his predecessor was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of such term. QUALIFICATIONS FOR HOLDING OFFICE SEC. 302. No person shall hold the office of member of the District Council unless he (1) is a qualified elector, (2) resides and is domiciled in the District, (3) holds no other elective public office, and (4) holds no appointive office for which compensation is provided out of District funds. COMPENSATION SEC. 303. Each member of the District Council, except the Chairman, shall receive compensation at a rate of $5,000 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments. The Chairman shall receive compensation at a rate of $7,500 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments, with a general expense account of $3,000 per annum plus such additional allowances for expenses as may be authorized by the District Council. PART 2-PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONS OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL 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 District Council. (b) The Board of Commissioners of the District is hereby abolished. FUNCTIONS RELATING TO ZONING SEC. 322. (a) 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, 1940 edition, sec. 5-412), is hereby abolished, and its functions are, to the extent not inconsistent with section 1405 (c), transferred to the District Council. (b) The Zoning Advisory Council created by section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1938, providing for the zoning of the District (D. C. Code, 1940 edition, sec. 5-417) is hereby abolished, and its functions are transferred to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. 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, for the purposes of section 321, be considered as a function granted to or imposed upon the Board. Except as otherwise provided in section 913 (a), each such function is hereby transferred to the officer or agency to whom or to which it was delegated. ORDINANCES SEC. 324. (a) The District Council (1) may pass ordinances to carry out those functions of a legislative character transferred to it by section 321; (2) may pass ordinances (hereinafter referred to as "zoning ordinances") to carry out those functions of a legislative character transferred to it by section 322 (a); and (3) may pass ordinances providing for the exercise, otherwise than by the District Council itself, of functions (other than functions of a legislative character) transferred to it by sections 321 and 322 (a). (b) An ordinance (other than a zoning ordinance) shall take effect as law upon passage by the District Council. (c) A zoning ordinance shall take effect as law only as provided in section 336. LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS SEC. 325. (a) Except as provided in section 326 (a), the District Council may pass legislative proposals on any subject coming within the scope of the power of Congress in its capacity as legislature for the District of Columbia, as distinguished from its capacity as the national legislature. (b) A legislative proposal passed by the District Council shall take effect as law only as provided in title IV. LIMITATIONS ON POWERS OF DISTRICT COUNCIL SEC. 326. (a) The District Council may not pass any legislative proposal or ordinance (1) imposing any tax on property of the United States; (2) granting an exclusive privilege, immunity, or franchise; (3) authorizing any lottery or the sale of lottery tickets or authorizing any form of gambling; (4) authorizing the use of public money in support of any sectarian, denominational, or private school; (5) lending the public credit for support of any private undertaking; or (6) amending section 321, 322, 324, 325, or 336, title IV, this subsection, cr subsection (b) or (c) of this section. (b) Any legislative proposal amending any provision of title III, V (except section 504), XI or XII may be passed by the District Council only by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members then holding office. (c) Any legislative proposal authorizing the issuance of bonds may be passed only in compliance with the provisions of title VII. CREATION AND ABOLITION OF ADVISORY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS SEC. 327. (a) The District Council may by ordinance create such advisory boards and commissions as it deems necessary or appropriate for the proper functioning of the District government, and may provide for the appointment and fix the compensation of the members thereof. (b) The District Council may by ordinance reorganize or abolish any advisory board or commission created pursuant to subsection (a). PART 3-ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL THE CHAIRMAN SEC. 331. The District Council shall elect from among its members a Chairman who shall be the presiding officer of the District Council, the official spokesman for the District, and the head of the District for ceremonial purposes. The term of the first Chairman shall expire at the close of December 31, 1951, and at the close of December 31 of each succeeding odd-numbered year the term of office of the incumbent Chairman shall expire. SECRETARY OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL; RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS SEC. 332. (a) The District Council shall appoint a secretary who shall serve at the pleasure of the District Council as its chief administrative officer. The secretary shall receive a salary at a rate to be fixed by the District Council by ordinance. (v) The person duly acting as secretary shall have the authority vested by law in the secretary and assistant secretary of the Board of Commissioners of the District, and shall (1) keep a full record of the proceedings of the District Council, (2) keep a journal showing the text of all legislative proposals and ordinances |