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laws of the United States or any of the laws enacted by the Congress and applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia, or any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, in effect on the date immediately preceding the effective date of title IV of this Act pertaining to Ante, p. 785. said buildings and grounds, or any existing authority, with respect to such buildings and grounds, vested by law, or otherwise, on such date immediately preceding such effective date, in the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Congress, or any committee or commission or board thereof, the Architect of the Capitol, or any other officer of the legislative branch, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, or the Librarian of Congress.

(2) Notwithstanding the foregoing provision of this section, any of Services and the services and facilities authorized by this Act to be rendered or facilities, furnished (including maintenance of streets and highways, and serv- availability. ices under section 731 of this Act) shall, as far as practicable, be made available to the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Congress, or any committee or commission or board thereof, the Architect of the Capitol, or any other officer of the legislative branch vested by law or otherwise on such date immediately preceding the effective date of title IV of this Act with authority over such buildings and grounds, the Chief Justice of the United States, the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Librarian of Congress, upon their request, and, if payment would be required for the rendition or furnishing of a similar service or facility to any other Federal agency, payment there for shall be made by the recipient thereof, upon presentation of proper vouchers, in advance or by reimbursement (as may be agreed upon by the parties rendering and receiving such services).

(i) Except to the extent otherwise specifically provided in the pro- U. S. laws, visions of this section, and amendments made by this section, all applicability. general laws of the United States and all laws enacted by the Congress and applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia, including regulations and rules promulgated pursuant thereto, in effect on the date immediately preceding the effective date of title IV of this Act and which, on such date immediately preceding the effective date of such title, are applicable to and within the areas included within the National Capital Service Area pursuant to this section shall, on and after such effective date, continue to be applicable to and within such National Capital Service Area in the same manner and to the same extent as if this section had not been enacted, and shall remain so applicable until such time as they are repealed, amended, altered. modified, or superseded, and such laws, regulations and rules shall thereafter be applicable to and within such area in the manner and to the extent so provided by any such amendment, alteration, or modification.

(j). In no case shall any person be denied the right to vote or otherwise participate in any manner in any election in the District of Columbia solely because such person resides within the National Capital Service Area.

EMERGENCY CONTROL OF POLICE

SEC. 740. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the President of the United States determines that special conditions of an emergency nature exist which require the use of the Metropolitan Police force for Federal purposes, he may direct the Mayor to provide him, and the Mayor shall provide, such services of the Metropolitan Police force as the President may deem necessary and appropriate. In no case, however, shall such services made avail- Limitation.

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Notification requirement.

Termination.

Extension.

able pursuant to any such direction under this subsection extend for a period in excess of forty-eight hours unless the President has, prior to the expiration of such period, notified the Chairman and ranking minority Members of the Committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and the House of Representatives, in writing, as to the reason for such direction and the period of time during which the need for such services is likely to continue.

(b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, such services made available in accordance with subsection (a) of this section shall terminate upon the end of such emergency, the expiration of a period of thirty days following the date on which such services are first made available, or the adoption of a resolution by either the Senate or the House of Representatives providing for such termination, whichever first occurs.

(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, in any case in which such services are made available in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section during any period of an adjournment of the Congress sine die, such services shall terminate upon the end of the emergency, the expiration of the thirty-day period following the date on which Congress first convenes following such adjournment, or the adoption of a resolution by either the Senate or the House of Representatives providing for such termination, whichever first occurs.

(d) Except to the extent provided for in subsection (c) of this section, no such services made available pursuant to the direction of the President pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall extend for any period in excess of thirty days, unless the Senate and the House of Representatives approve a concurrent resolution authorizing such an extension.

HOLDING OFFICE IN THE DISTRICT

SEC. 741. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person who is otherwise qualified to hold the office of Chairman or member of the Council or Mayor shall be disqualified from being a candidate for such office by reason of his employment in the competitive or excepted service of the United States. For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be a candidate on and after the date he qualifies under applicable provisions of law in the District to have his name placed on the ballot in either a primary or general election for the office for which he is a candidate. Such candidacy shall terminate

(1) with respect to a person who has been defeated in a primary election held to nominate candidates for the office for which he is a candidate, on the day of such primary election:

(2) with respect to a person who is defeated in the general election held for the office for which he is a candidate, on the date of such general election; and

(3) with respect to a person who is elected in the general election held for the office for which he is a candidate, on the date such person assumes such office.

OPEN MEETINGS

SEC. 742. (a) All meetings (including hearings) of any department, agency, board, or commission of the District government, including meetings of the District Council, at which official action of any kind is taken shall be open to the public. No resolution, rule, act, regulation or other official action shall be effective unless taken, made, or enacted at such meeting.

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(b) A written transcript or a transcription shall be kept for all Written transuch meetings and shall be made available to the public during normal script, availbusiness hours of the District government. Copies of such written ability. transcripts or copies of such transcriptions shall be available upon

request to the public at reasonable cost.

TERMINATION OF THE DISTRICT'S AUTHORITY TO BORROW FROM THE

TREASURY

SEC. 743. (a) The first section of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to borrow funds for capital improvement programs and to amend provisions of law relating to Federal Government participation in meeting costs of maintaining the Nation's Capital City", approved June 6, 1958 (72 Stat. 183; D.C. Code, sec. 9-220), is amended by striking out subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e).

(b) The Act entitled "An Act authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for the expansion of the District of Columbia water system", approved June 2, 1950 (60 Stat. 195; D.C. Code, sec. 43-1540), is repealed.

(c) Title II of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the financing of a program of public works construction for the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 108), is amended by striking out sections 213, 214, 216, 217, and 218 (D.C. Code, sections 43-1612, 43-1613, 43-1615, 43-1616, and 43-1617), authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for sanitary and combined sewer systems of the District.

(d) Section 402 of title IV of such Act approved May 18, 1954 (68 Stat. 110; D.C. Code, sec. 7-133), authorizing loans from the United States Treasury for the District of Columbia highway construction program, is repealed.

(e) Nothing contained in this section shall be deemed to relieve the Loan payment District of its obligation to repay any loan made to it under the author- obligation. ity of the Acts specified in the preceding subsections, nor to preclude the District from using the unexpended balance of any such loan appropriated to the District prior to the effective date of this provision, nor to prevent the District from fulfilling the provisions of section 722.

PART E-AMENDMENTS TO THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ELECTION ACT

AMENDMENTS

SEC. 751. The District of Columbia Election Act (D.C. Code, secs. 1-1101-1-1115) is amended as follows:

(1) The first section of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1101) is 69 Stat. 699; amended by inserting immediately after "Board of Education,", the 85 Stat. 788. following: "the members of the Council of the District of Columbia,

the Mayor".

(2) Section 2 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1102) is amended by Ante, p. 311. adding at the end thereof the following new paragraphs:

"(8) The term 'Council' or 'Council of the District of Columbia' Definitions. means the Council of the District of Columbia established pursuant to

the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorga

nization Act.

“(9) The term 'Mayor' means the office of Mayor of the District of Columbia established pursuant to the District of Columbia SelfGovernment and Governmental Reorganization Act."

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84 Stat. 849; 85 Stat. 790; Ante, p. 312, 313.

(3) Subsections (h), (i), (j), and (k) of section 8 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1108) are amended to read as follows:

"(h) (1) (A) The Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the District Council and the four at-large members of the Council shall be elected by the registered qualified electors of the District of Columbia in a genDelegate, Mayor, Chairman of the eral election. Each candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, ChairDistrict Council man of the District Council, and at-large members of the Council in and at-large any general election shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection members, election.(j) of this section and section 10(d), have been elected by the registered qualified electors of the District as such candidate by the next preceding primary election.

69 Stat. 702;

84 Stat. 851. D. C. Code 1-1110.

Restrictions.

Nomination petition.

69 Stat. 700; 35 Stat. 790,

795.

D. C. Code

1-1107.

Petition,

circulation.

"(B) (1) A member of the office of Council (other than the Chairman and any member elected at large) shall be elected in a general election by the registered qualified electors of the respective ward of the District from which the individual seeking such office was elected as a candidate for such office as provided in clause (ii) of this paragraph. "(ii) Each candidate for the office of member of the Council (other than Chairman and at-large members) shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection (j) of this section and section 10(d), have been elected as such a candidate, by the registered qualified electors of the ward of the District from which such individual was nominated, at the next preceding primary election to fill such office within that ward.

"(2) The nomination and election of any individual to the office of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council and member of the Council shall be governed by the provisions of this Act. No political party shall be qualified to hold a primary election to select candidates for election to any such office in a general election unless, in the next preceding election year, at least seven thousand five hundred votes were cast in the general election for a candidate of such party for any such office or for its candidates for electors of President and Vice President. "(i) (1) Each individual in a primary election for candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council, or at-large member of the Council shall be nominated for any such office by a petition (A) filed with the Board not later than sixty days before the date of such primary election, and (B) signed by at least two thousand registered qualified electors of the same political party as the nominee, or by 1 per centum of the duly registered members of such political party, whichever is less, as shown by the records of the Board of Elections as of the one hundred fourteenth day before the date of such election.

"(2) Each individual in a primary election for candidate for the office of member of the Council (other than the Chairman and at-large members) shall be nominated for such office by a petition (A) filed with the Board not later than sixty days before the date of such primary election, and (B) signed by at least two hundred and fifty persons in the ward from which such individual seeks election who are duly registered in such ward under section 7 of this Act, and who are of the same political party as the nominee.

"(3) A nominating petition for a candidate in a primary election for any such office may not be circulated for signature before the one hundred fourteenth day preceding the date of such election and may not be filed with the Board before the eighty-fifth day preceding such date. The Board may prescribe rules with respect to the preparation and presentation of nominating petitions. The Board shall arrange the ballot of each political party in each such primary election as to enable a voter of such party to vote for nominated candidates of that party.

"(j) (1) A duly qualified candidate for the office of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council, or member of the Council may, subject to

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the provisions of this subsection, be nominated directly as such a candidate for election for such office (including any such election to be held to fill a vacancy). Such person shall be nominated by petition (A) filed with the Board not less than sixty days before the date of such general election, and (B) in the case of a person who is a candidate for the office of member of the Council (other than the Chairman or an at-large member), signed by five hundred voters who are duly registered under section 7 in the ward from which the candidate seeks 69 Stat. 700; election; and in the case of a person who is a candidate for the office 85 Stat. 790, of Delegate, Mayor, Chairman of the Council, or at-large member of 795. the Council, signed by duly registered voters equal in number to 112 D. C. Code per centum of the total number of registered voters in the District, as shown by the records of the Board as of one hundred fourteen days before the date of such election, or by three thousand persons duly registered under section 7, whichever is less. No signatures on such a petition may be counted which have been made on such petition more than one hundred fourteen days before the date of such election.

"(2) Nominations under this subsection for candidates for election in a general election to any office referred to in paragraph (1) shall be of no force and effect with respect to any person whose name has appeared on the ballot of a primary election for that office held within eight months before the date of such general election.

1-1107.

(k)(1) In each general election for the office of member of the Council (other than the office of the Chairman or an at-large member) the Board shall arrange the ballots in each ward to enable a voter registered in that ward to vote for any one candidate who (A) has been duly elected by any political party in the next preceding primary election for such office from such ward, (B) has been duly nominated to fill a vacancy in such office in such ward pursuant to section 10(d), or (C) has been nominated directly as a candidate for such 69 Stat. 702. office in such ward under bsection (j) of this section.

84 Stat. 851.

1-1110.

"(2) In each generation for the office of Chairman and member D. C. Code of the Council at large, the Board shall arrange the ballots to enable a registered qualified elector to vote for as many candidates for election as members at large as there are members at large to be elected in such election, including the Chairman. Such candidates shall be only those persons who (A) have been duly elected by any political party in the next preceding primary election for such office, (B) have been duly nominated to fill vacancies in such office pursuant to section 10(d), or (C) have been nominated directly as a candidate under subsection (j) of this section.

(3) In each general election for the office of Delegate and Mayor, the Board shall arrange the ballots to enable a registered qualified elector to vote for any one of the candidates for any such office who (A) has been duly elected by any political party in the next preceding primary election for such office, (B) has been duly nominated to fill a vaca in such office pursuant to section 10(d), or (C) has been nominated directly as a candidate under subsection (j) of this section.".

(4) Paragraph (3) of section 10(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1110) is amended (1) by inserting "(A)" immediately before the 85 Stat. 792. word "Except", and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: D. C. Code "(B) Except as otherwise provided in the case of special elections 1-1110. under this Act primary elections of each political party for the office Primary election of member of the Council shall be held on the first Tuesday after the Second Monday in September in 1974, and every second year thereafter, and general election for such offices shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in 1974 and every second year thereafter.

dates.