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(h) A voter shall vote only once with respect to each office to be filled. (1) Copies of the regulations of the Board of Elections with respect to voting shall be made available to prospective voters at each polling place.

RECOUNTS AND CONTESTS

SEC. 1212. (a) After the Board of Elections certifies the results of an election, any person who voted in the election may petition the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to review such election. In response to such a petition, the court may (A) set aside one or more of the results so certified and declare the true results of the election, or (B) void all or part of the election. To determine the true results of an election the court may order a recount or take other appropriate action. The court shall void all or part of an election only for fraul, mistake, or other defect, serious enough to vitiate the election (or part thereof) as a fair expression of the will of the registered qualified electors of the District voting therein. In any proceeding under this section the court may appoint a commission for the purpose of receiving evidence and making findings of fact.

(b) If the court voids all or part of an election under this section, and if it determines that the number of importance of the matters involved outweigh the cost and practical disadvantages of holding another election, it may order a special election for the purpose of voting on the matters with respect to which the election was declared void.

(c) Special elections shall be conducted in a manner comparable to that prescribed for regular elections and at times and in the manner prescribed by the Board of Elections by regulation. A person elected at such an election shall take office on the day following the date on which the Board of Elections certifies the results of the election.

(d) Vacancies resulting from voiding all or part of an election shall be filled as prescribed in section 1204.

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SFC. 1213. (a) No one shall interfere with the registration or voting of another person, except as it may be reasonably necessary in the performance of a duty imrosed by law. No person performing such a duty shall interfere with the registration or voting of another person because of his race, color, sex, or religious belief, or his want of property or income.

(b) No registered voter shall be required to perform a military duty on election day which would prevent him from voting, except in time of war or public danger or unless he is away from the District in military service. No registered voter may be arrested while voting or going to vote except for a breach of the peace then committed or for treason or felony.

VIOLATIONS

SEC. 1214. Whoever willfully violates any provision of this title, or of any regulation prescribed and published by the Board of Elections under authority of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. TITLE XII-APPOINTMENT, CLASSIFICATION, AND RETIREMENT OF

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES

PART 1-APPOINTMENT AND CLASSIFICATION

APPLICATION OF THE CIVIL SERVICE ACT

SEC. 1301. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (b) and (c), all offices and positions in the government of the District shall be subject to the Act entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States." approved January 16, 1883, as amended, and rules and regulations made in pursuance of such Act.

(b) Such Act and rules and regulations shall not apply to the offices or positions of the following:

(1) Members of the District Council; secretary of the District Council; secretary of the Board of Education; Superintendent of Schools; teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education who are subject to the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947; Director of Vocational Rehabilitation; District Manager; Assistants to the District Manager; directors of executive departments of the District; members and executive officers of boards and other agencies created or continued by title X; and members of boards and commissions other than agencies created by title X.

(2) The chief judge and associate judges of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the chief judge and judges of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, and the judge of the Juvenile Court.

(3) Persons employed as unskilled laborers.

(c) Such Act and rules and regulations shall apply to officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia only to the extent provided by law prior to the effective date of this title.

STATUS OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT IN THE FEDERAL CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE

SEC. 1302. (a) The Civil Service Commission shall confer a competitive classified civil-service status upon each officer or employee performing services for the government of the District on the effective date of this title who does not have such status on such date but comes within the purview of section 1301 (a), if such officer or employee qualifies in such appropriate noncompetitive examination as may be prescribed by the Civil Service Commission. An officer or employee shall not be eligible to take such noncompetitive examination unless he is a citizen of the United States. Each person acquiring a competitive classified civil-service status under this subsection shall retain such status and be eligible for transfer to a position in the Federal Government for which he is qualified. (b) Each person (except a person to whom subsection (c) of this section applies) appointed, after the effective date of this title, to a position in the government of the District within the purview of section 1301 (a) shall have a competitive classified civil-service status and be eligible for transfer to a position in the Federal Government for which he is qualified.

(c) Any person heretofore or hereafter transferred from a position in the Federal Government to a position in the government of the District shall, if he had a competitive classified civil-service status at the time of such transfer, retain such status and be eligible for reinstatement by the Federal Government in a comparable position as long as he is employed by the government of the District.

SELECTION OF DISTRICT EMPLOYEES

SEC. 1303. (a) The Civil Service Commission shall certify to the District Manager for appointment to positions in the government of the District persons whose names appear on (1) registers of eligibles for positions in the classified civil service of the United States and (2) registers of persons who have by virtue of special examinations qualified for positions in the government of the District.

(b) Residence in the District shall not be required for eligibility for appointment to a position in the government of the District within the purview of section 1301 (a), but in the certification of eligibles under subsection (a) (1) of this section the Civil Service Commission shall give preference to persons residing in the metropolitan area of the District. Special examinations for positions in the government of the District shall be open only to persons who reside in such metropolitan area.

NONCOMPLIANCE OF THE DISTRICT WITH REQUIREMENTS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

SEC. 1304. If the Civil Service Commission disapproves of the practices of the government of the District with respect to the selection, classification, or retirement of officers and employees of such government, it shall report such disapproval to the Congress.

APPLICATION OF THE CLASSIFICATION ACT OF 1923 TO OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT

SEC. 1305. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), offices and positions in the government of the District shall be subject to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended.

(b) The Classification Act of 1923, as amended, shall not apply to the offices and positions of the following:

(1) Officers whose compensation is fixed by this Act.

(2) Secretary of the District Council; District Manager; Assistants to the District Manager; directors of executive departments of the District; members of boards and other agencies created or continued by title X; and members of boards and commissions other than agencies created by title X; and the secretary of the Board of Education.

(3) Employees whose rate of compensation (by reason of the transfer of the functions of the Wage Board to the District Manager) may be fixed by the District Manager with the approval of the District Council.

(4) Teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education whose salaries are fixed by the District of Columbia Teachers' Salary Act of 1947.

(5) Officers and members of the Metropolitan Police force and of the Fire Department of the District of Columbia.

(6) The chief judge and associate judges of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the chief judge and judges of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, and the judge of the Juvenile Court.

(7) Officers and employees who render service without compensation under existing law.

COMPENSATION OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE DISTRICT

SEC. 1306. The District Council, by ordinance, may fix from time to time the compensation of those employees of the District, if any, to whose positions or employment the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, is inapplicable, and whose rates of compensation are not otherwise fixed by or pursuant to law.

PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED BY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

SEC. 1307. The cost, as determined by the Civil Service Commission, of services (furnished after June 30, 1953) of the Commission in the administration of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States", approved January 16, 1883, as amended, and rules and regulations made in pursuance of such Act, and of the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, on behalf of the government of the District shall be borne by such government in the manner prescribed in section 831.

PART 2-RETIREMENT

LIABILITY OF DISTRICT

SEC. 1321. The government of the District, in the manner prescribed by section 831, shall, for each fiscal year, pay to the United States the amount certified by the Civil Service Commission to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget as being necessary to finance the liability of the government of the District with respect to the retirement of its officers and employees.

PAYMENT FOR SERVICES RENDERED BY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

SEC. 1322. The cost, as determined by the Civil Service Commission, of services (furnished after June 30, 1953) of the Commission in the administration of the retirement system on behalf of the government of the District shall be borne by such government in the manner prescribed by section 831).

TITLE XIV-MISCELLANEOUS

AGREEMENTS WITH UNITED STATES

SEC. 1401. (a) For the purpose of preventing duplication of effort or of otherwise promoting efficiency and economy, any Federal officer or agency may furnish services to the District government and any District officer or agency may furnish services to the Federal Government. Except where the terms and conditions governing the furnishing of such services are prescribed by other provisions of law, such services shall be furnished pursuant to a contract (1) negotiated by the Federal and District authorities concerned, and (2) approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget and by the District Manager. Each such contract shall provide that the cost of furnishing such services shall be borne in the manner provided in subsection (c) by the Government to which such services are furnished at rates or charges based on the actual cost of furnishing such services.

(b) For the purpose of carrying out any contract negotiated and approved pursuant to subsection (a), any District officer or agency may in the contract delegate any of his or its functions to any Federal officer or agency, and any Federal officer or agency may in the contract delegate any of his or its functions to any District officer or agency. Any function so delegated may be exercised in accordance with the terms of the delegation.

(c) The costs to each Federal officer and agency in furnishing services to the District pursuant to any such contract shall be paid, in accordance with the terms of the contract, out of appropriations made by the District Council to the District officers and agencies to which such services are furnished. The costs to each District officer and agency in furnishing services to the Federal Government pursuant to any such contract shall be paid, in accordance with the terms of the contract, out of appropriations made by the Congress to the Federal officers and agencies to which such services are furnished.

PERSONAL INTEREST IN CONTRACTS OR TRANSACTIONS

SEC. 1402. No member of the District Council and no other officer or employee of the District with power of discretion in the making of any contract to which the District is a party or in the sale to the District or to a contractor supplying the District of any land or rights or interests in any land, material, supplies, or services shall have a financial interest, direct or indirect, in such contract or sale. Any willful violation of this section shall constitute malfeasance in office, and any officer or employee of the District found guilty thereof shall thereby forfeit his office or position. Any violation of this section with the knowledge express or implied of the person contracting with the District shall render the contract voidable by the District Manager or the District Council.

SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL

SEC. 1403. (a) The cost, as determined by the Federal Security Administrator, of the care and support (after June 30, 1953) of any resident of the District (other than a resident who is a Federal prisoner) received by or committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital shall be borne (in the manner provided by section 831) by the District.

(b) The cost, as determined by the Federal Security Administrator, of the care and support (after June 30, 1953) of any District prisoner received by or committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital from any Federal penitentiary or from any other place of confinement shall be borne (in the manner provided by section 831) by the District.

(c) The cost of the care and support of any person received by or committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital not required to be borne by the District under subsection (a) or (b) shall be borne by the United States.

(d) For the purposes of this section

(1) the term "resident of the District" means a person who has maintained his principal place of abode in the District for more than one year immediately prior to the date upon which he was received by or committed to Saint Elizabeths Hospital;

(2) the term "District prisoner" means a person charged with or convicted of an offense under any law of the United States applicable exclusively to the District or under any legislative proposal or ordinance which has taken effect as law of the District; and

(3) the term "Federal prisoner" means a prisoner who is not a District prisoner.

REGISTER OF WILLS AND CLERK OF PROBATE COURT

SEC. 1404. (a) The register of wills and clerk of the Probate Court shall hereafter be known as the "clerk of the Probate Court." The clerk shall be appointed (and may at any time be removed) by the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The incumbent holding the office of register of wills and clerk of the Probate Court on the date this section becomes effective shall remain in office until the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia appoints a successor.

(b) Fees and emoluments hereafter received by the office of the register of wills and clerk of the Probate Court shall be paid at least weekly to the Director of the Department of Finance for deposit in the general fund of the District.

NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION

SEC. 1405. (a) The ex officio members of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission shall consist of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army; the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior; the Architeet of the Capitol; the Federal Works Administrator; the Director of the Department of Public Works; the Director of the Department of Recreation; and a member of the District Council appointed by the Chairman with the approval of the District Council.

(b) There shall be two appointed members of the Commission in addition to the four appointed members heretofore provided for. Such additional members shall be appointed by the President, one upon the recommendation of the Governor of Maryland and one upon the recommendation of the Governor of Virginia. The members first appointed pursuant to this subsection shall continue in office for terms ending as designated by the President, one at the close of April 30, 1953, and one at the close of April 30, 1954. Their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years; except that a person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he shall succeed.

(c) The function of preparing, developing, and maintaining a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated plan for the National Capital and its environs shall be exercised by the Commission on behalf of the District government as well as the Federal Government, and no officer or agency of the District may exercise any function in conflict with such function of the Commission. The term "comprehensive plan,” as used in section 2 of the Act of Jun 20, 1938, providing for the zoning of the District (D. C. Code, 1940 edition, sec. 5-414), shall mean the plan prepared, developed, and maintained by the Commission.

CERTAIN FUNCTIONS NOW ADMINISTERED BY FEDERAL AGENCIES

SEC. 1406. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress that functions granted in the exercise of the power of Congress as legislature for the District which are of a character ordinarily administered, in other jurisdictions, by State, Territorial, or local agencies or officers, should be vested in officers or agencies of the District. In furtherance of this policy the District Council, from time to time and as soon as practicable, shall submit to the Congress recommendations providing for transfer to appropriate officers or agencies of the District of functions of the character above referred to which are being administered by Federal officers or agencies.

NATIONAL CAPITAL HOUSING AUTHORITY

SEC. 1407. (a) The National Capital Housing Authority created pursuant to the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act is hereby continued as an agency of the Federal Government.

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