87 STAT. 775 TABLE OF CONTENTS--Continued PART D--DISTRICT BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Subpart 1-Budget and Financial Management. Sec. 441. Fiscal year. Sec. 442. Submission of annual budget. Sec. 443. Multiyear plan. Sec. 444. Multiyear capital improvements plan. Sec. 445. District of Columbia courts' budget. Sec. 446. Enactment of appropriations by Congress. Sec. 447. Consistency of budget, accounting, and personnel systems. Sec. 448. Financial duties of the Mayor. Sec. 449. Accounting supervision and control. Sec. 450. General and special funds. Sec. 451. Contracts extending beyond one year. Sec. 452. Annual budget for the Board of Education. Subpart 2-Audit Sec. 455. District of Columbia Auditor. PART E-BORROWING Subpart 1-Borrowing Sec. 461. District's authority to issue and redeem general obligation bonds for capital projects. Sec. 462. Contents of borrowing legislation. Sec. 463. Publication of borrowing legislation. Sec. 464. Short period of limitation. Sec. 465. Acts for issuance of general obligation bonds. Sec. 466. Public sale. Subpart 2 Short-Term Borrowing Sec. 471. Borrowing to meet appropriations. Subpart 3-Payments of Bonds and Notes Sec. 481. Special tax. Subpart Tax Exemption; Legal Investment; Water Pollution; Reservoirs : Sec. 485. Tax exemption. Sec. 486. Legal investment. Sec. 487. Water pollution. Sec. 488. Cost of reservoirs on Potomac River. Sec. 489. District's contributions to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Sec. 490. Revenue bonds and other obligations. Sec. 501. Duties of the Mayor, Council, and Federal Office of Management and Sec. 502. Authorization of appropriations. TITLE VI-RESERVATION OF CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORITY Sec. 601. Retention of constitutional authority. Sec. 602. Limitations on the Council. Sec. 603. Budget process; limitations on borrowing and spending. Sec. 604. Congressional action on certain District matters. 87 STAT. 776 TABLE OF CONTENTS-Continued TITLE VII-REFERENDUM; SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT; TEMPO- PART B-SUCCESSION IN GOVERNMENT Sec. 711. Abolishment of existing government and transfer of functions. Sec. 713. Transfer of personnel, property, and funds. Sec. 714. Existing statutes, regulations, and other actions. Sec. 715. Pending actions and proceedings. Sec. 716. Vacancies resulting from abolishment of offices of Commissioner and Sec. 717. Status of the District. Sec. 718. Continuation of District of Columbia court system. Sec. 719. Continuation of the Board of Education. PART C-TEMPORARY PROVISIONS Sec. 721. Powers of the President during transitional period. Sec. 723. Interim loan authority. PART D-MISCELLANEOUS Sec. 731. Agreements with United States. Sec. 732. Personal interest in contracts or transactions. Sec. 733. Compensation from more than one source. Sec. 734. Assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission in development of District merit system. Sec. 735. Revenue sharing restrictions. Ses. 736. Independent audit. Sec. 737. Adjustments. Sec. 138. Advisory neighborhood councils. Sec. 739. National Capital Service Area. Sec. 740. Emergency control of police. Sec. 741. Holding office in the District. Sec. 742. Open meetings. Sec. 743. Termination of the District's authority to borrow from the Treasury. PART E AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT Sec. 751. Amendments. Sec. 752. District Council authority over elections. PART F-RULES OF CONSTRUCTION Sec. 761. Construction. PART G-EFFECTIVE DATES Sec. 771. Effective dates. TITLE I-SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS SHORT TITLE SEC. 101. This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia SelfGovernment and Governmental Reorganization Act”. 87 STAT. 777 USC prec. title 1. STATEMENT OF PURPOSES SEC. 102. (a) Subject to the retention by Congress of the ultimate legislative authority over the Nation's Capital granted by article I, section 8, of the Constitution, the intent of Congress is to delegate certain legislative powers to the government of the District of Columbia; authorize the election of certain local officials by the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia; grant to the inhabitants of the District of Columbia powers of local self-government; to modernize, reorganize, and otherwise improve the governmental structure of the District of Columbia; and, to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the constitutional mandate, relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters. (b) Congress further intends to implement certain recommendations of the Commission on the Organization of the Government of the District of Columbia and take certain other actions irrespective of whether the charter for greater self-government provided for in title IV of this Act is accepted or rejected by the registered qualified electors of the District of Columbia. 81 Stat. 948. 5 USC app. DEFINITIONS SEC. 103. For the purposes of this Act— (1) The term "District" means the District of Columbia. (2) The term “Council" means the Council of the District of Columbia provided for by part A of title IV. (3) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the District of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1967. (4) The term "District of Columbia Council" means 'he Council of the District of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1967. (5) The term "Chairman" means, unless otherwise provided in this Act, the Chairman of the Council provided for by part A of title IV. (6) The term "Mayor" means the Mayor provided for by part B of title IV. (7) The term "act" includes any legislation passed by the Council, except where the term "Act" is used to refer to this Act or other Acts of Congress herein specified. (8) The term "capital 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. (9) The term "pending", when applied to any capital project, means authorized but not yet completed. (10) The term "District revenues" means all funds derived from taxes, fees, charges, and miscellaneous receipts, including all annual Federal payments to the District authorized by law, and from the sale of bonds. (11) The term "election", unless the context otherwise provides, means an election held pursuant to the provisions of this Act. (12) The terms "publish" and "publication", unless otherwise specifically provided herein, mean publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the District. (13) The term "District of Columbia courts" means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. (14) The term "resources" means revenues, balances, revolving funds, funds realized from borrowing, and the District share of Federal grant programs. (15) The term "budget" means the entire request for appropriations and loan or spending authority for all activities of all agencies of the District financed from all existing or proposed resources and shall include both operating and capital expenditures. TITLE II-GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION REDEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY SEC. 201. The District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, secs. 5-701-5-719) is amended as follows: (a) Subsection (a) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5–703 (a)) is amended to read as follows: "(a) The District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency is hereby established as an instrumentality of the District of Columbia government, and shall be composed of five members appointed by the Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the Commissioner'), with the advice and consent of the Council of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the 'Council'). The Commissioner shall name one member as chairman. No more than two members may be officers of the District of Columbia government. Each member shall serve for a term of five years except that of the members first appointed under this section, one shall serve for a term of one year, one shall serve for a term of two years, one shall serve for a term of three years, one shall serve for a term of four years, and one shall serve for a term of five years, as designated by the Commissioner. The terms of the members first appointed under this section shall begin on or after January 2, 1975. Should any member who is an officer of the District of Columbia government cease to be such an officer, then his term as a member shall end on the day he ceases to be such an officer. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the Agency shall be appointed to serve for the remainder of the term during which such vacancy arose. Any member who holds no other salaried public position shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the agency." (b) Subsection (b) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5-703 (b)) is amended (1) by inserting after "forth" at the end of the first sentence of such section ", except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the District of Columbia government from dissolving the corporation, eliminating the board of directors, or taking such other action with respect to the powers and duties of such Agency, including those actions specified in subsection (c), as is deemed necessary and appropriate", and (2) by striking out in the second sentence "including the selection of its chairman and other officers," and inserting in lieu thereof "including the selection of officers other than its chairman,”. (c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c) The Council is authorized, by act, to adopt legislation 87 STAT. 778 60 Stat. 793. D.C. government authority. Factfinding "(1) establishing, for the purpose of assuring uniform proce- board. dures relating to the disposition of complaints and other claims involving the Redevelopment Land Agency (or its successor) and other administrative units of the District of Columbia govern 87 STAT. 779 68 Stat. 622. 42 USC 1450 et seq. 84 Stat.587. 84 Stat.557. 72 Stat. 389. 15 USC 637. Post, p. 819. 48 Stat. 931; 52 Stat. 1186. ment, a factfinding board to receive, hear, and act on such complaints and claims arising out of or in connection with administrative and other actions of such Agency or units in carrying out their powers and functions; "(2) providing that all planning, designing, construction, and supervision of public facilities which are to be contributed to any redevelopment area as the local non-cash grant-in-aid to the project under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, shall, to the extent practicable, be carried out by an appropriate District of Columbia department or agency on the basis of a contractual or other arrangement with the Redevelopment Land Agency or its successor; "(3) providing that any occupied rental property owned by the Agency shall be maintained by such Agency (or its successor) in a safe and sanitary condition; or "(4) providing that the Commissioner shall have authority to waive all or any part of any special assessments levied against abutting property owners for the cost of sewers, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, utilities, and other supporting facilities or project improvements where the costs there for to the District of Columbia can be applied as a non-cash local grant-in-aid, as defined by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.". (d) The first sentence of subsection (b) of section 5 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5-704(b)) is amended to read as follows "Condemnation proceedings for the acquisition of real property for said purposes shall be conducted in accordance with subchapter II of chapter 13 of title 16 of the District of Columbia Code.”. (e) None of the amendments contained in this section shall be construed to affect the eligibility of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency to continue participation in the small business procurement programs under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (67 Stat. 547). (f) For the purposes of subsection 713 (d), employees in the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency shall be deemed to be transferred to the District of Columbia as of the effective date of this title without a break in service. NATIONAL CAPITAL HOUSING AUTHORITY SEC. 202. (a) The National Capital Housing Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Authority") established under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act (D.C. Code, secs. 5-103-5-116) shall be an agency of the District of Columbia government subject to the organizational and reorganizational powers specified in sections 404 (b) and 422 (12) of this Act. (b) All functions, powers, and duties of the President under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act shall be vested in and exercised by the Commissioner. All employees, property (real and personal), and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and all other funds, and assets and liabilities of the Authority are authorized to be transferred to the District of Columbia government. NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION AND MUNICIPAL PLANNING SEC. 203. (a) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and |