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Article VII, Referendum; Succession in Government; Temporary Provisions; Miscellaneous; Amendments to District of Columbia Elections Act; Rules of Construction; and Effective Dates

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All articles139 Art. I3 Art. II4 Art. III3 Art. IV87 Art. V3 Art. VI4 Art. VII35

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D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.01 Referendum
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On a date to be fixed by the Board of Elections, not more than five months after December 24, 1973 a referendum (in this part referred to as the “charter referendum”) shall be conducted to determine whether the registered qualified electors of the District accept the charter set …
D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.02 Board of Elections authority
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(a) The Board of Elections shall conduct the charter referendum and certify the results thereof as provided in this part. (b) Notwithstanding the fact that such section does not otherwise take effect unless the charter is accepted under this subchapter, the applicable provision o…
D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.03 Referendum ballot and notice of voting
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(a) The charter referendum ballot shall contain the following, with a blank space appropriately filled: “The District of Columbia Home Rule Act, enacted _____ , proposes to establish a charter for the governance of the District of Columbia, but provides that the charter shall tak…
D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.04 Acceptance or nonacceptance of Charter

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(a) If a majority of the registered qualified electors voting in the charter referendum vote for the charter, the charter shall be considered accepted as of the time the Board of Elections certifies the result of the charter referendum to the President of the United States, as pr…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.11 Abolishment of existing government and transfer of functions

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The District of Columbia Council, the Offices of Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, Vice Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, and the 7 other members of the District of Columbia Council, and the Offices of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia and Assis…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.12 Certain delegated functions; functions of certain agencies

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No function of the District of Columbia Council (established under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967) or of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia which such District of Columbia Council or Commissioner has delegated to an officer, employee, or agency (including any body of…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.13 Transfer of personnel, property, and funds

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(a) In each case of the transfer, by any provision of this chapter, of functions to the Council, to the Mayor, or to any agency or officer, there are hereby authorized to be transferred (as of the time of such transfer of functions) to the Council, to the Mayor, to such agency, o…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.14 Existing statutes, regulations, and other actions

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(a) Any statute, regulation, or other action in respect of (and any regulation or other action issued, made, taken, or granted by) any officer or agency from which any function is transferred by this chapter shall, except to the extent modified or made inapplicable by or under au…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.15 Pending actions and proceedings

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(a) No suit, action, or other judicial proceeding lawfully commenced by or against any officer or agency in his or its official capacity or in relation to the exercise of his or its official functions, shall abate by reason of the taking effect of any provision of this chapter; b…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.16 Vacancies resulting from abolishment of offices of Commissioner and Assistant to the Commissioner

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Until the 1st day of July next after the first Mayor takes office under this chapter no vacancy occurring in any District agency by reason of § 1-207.11, abolishing the offices of Commissioner of the District of Columbia and Assistant to the Commissioner, shall affect the power o…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.17 Status of the District

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(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 § 1-102. Said Corporation shall continu…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.18 Continuation of District of Columbia court system

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(a) The District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure shall continue as provided under the District of Columbia Court Reorganization Act of 1970 subject to the pro…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.19 Continuation of the Board of Education

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The term of any member elected to the District of Columbia Board of Education, and the powers and duties of the Board of Education shall not be affected by the provisions of § 1-204.95 [repealed]. No provision of such section shall be construed to extend the term of any such memb…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.21 Powers of the President during transitional period

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The President of the United States is hereby authorized and requested to take such action during the period following the date of the enactment of this chapter and ending on the date of the first meeting of the Council, by Executive Order or otherwise, with respect to the adminis…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.22 Reimbursable appropriations for the District

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(a) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to advance to the District of Columbia the sum of $750,000, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for use (1) in the paying the expenses of the Board of Education (including compensation of the members thereof…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.23 Interim loan authority

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(a) The Mayor is authorized to accept loans for the District from the Treasury of the United States, and the Secretary is authorized to lend to the Mayor, such sums as the Mayor may determine are required to complete capital projects for which construction and construction servic…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.24 Political participation in certain elections first held under this chapter

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(a) In order to provide continuity in the government of the District of Columbia during the transition from the appointed government to the elected government provided for under this chapter, no person employed by the United States or by the government of the District of Columbia…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.31 Services between United States government and District government

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Repealed Repealed.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.32 Personal interest in contracts or transactions

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Any officer or employee of the District who is convicted of a violation of § 208 of Title 18, United States Code , shall forfeit his office or position.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.33 Compensation from more than one source

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(a) Except as provided in this chapter, no person shall be ineligible to serve or to receive compensation as a member of the Board of Elections because he occupies another office or position or because he receives compensation (including retirement compensation) from another sour…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.34 Assistance of the United States Civil Service Commission in development of District merit system

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The United States Civil Service Commission is hereby authorized to advise and assist the Mayor and the Council in the further development of the merit system or systems required by § 1-204.22(3) and the said Commission is authorized to enter into agreements with the District gove…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.35 Revenue sharing restrictions amendment

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D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.36 Independent audit

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Repealed Repealed.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.37 Adjustments

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(a) Subject to 31 U.S.C. § 1537, the Mayor, with the approval of the Council, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement or agreements concerning the manner and method by which amounts owed by the District to th…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.38 Advisory neighborhood commissions

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(a) The Council shall by act divide the District into neighborhood commission areas and, upon receiving a petition signed by at least 5 per centum of the registered qualified electors of a Neighborhood Commission area, shall establish for that neighborhood an elected Advisory Nei…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.39 National Capital Service Area

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(a) There is established within the District of Columbia the National Capital Service Area which shall include, subject to the following provisions of this section, the principal federal monuments, the White House, the Capitol Building, the United States Supreme Court Building, a…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.40 Emergency control of police

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(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…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.41 Holding Office in the District

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Repealed Repealed.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.42 Open meetings

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(a) All meetings (including hearings) of any department, agency, board, or commission of the District government, including meetings of the Council of the District of Columbia, at which official action of any kind is taken shall be open to the public. No resolution, rule, act, re…

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.43 Termination of the District’s Authority to Borrow from the Treasury

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D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.51 Amendments

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D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.52 District Council authority over elections

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Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or of any other law, the Council shall have authority to enact any act or resolution with respect to matters involving or relating to elections in the District.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.61 Construction

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(a) To the extent that any provisions of this chapter are inconsistent with the provisions of any other laws, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail and shall be deemed to supersede the provisions of such laws. (b) No law or regulation which is in force on January 2, 1975, …

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.62 Severability

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If any particular provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person of circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of this chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

D.C. Charter, D.C. Code § 1-207.71 Effective dates

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(a) Subchapters I and V, and parts A and G, and § 1-207.22 of subchapter VII shall take effect on December 24, 1973. (b) Sections 1-207.12, 1-207.13, 1-207.14, and 1-207.15 of subchapter VII, and section 1-204.01(b) of subchapter IV, and subchapter II shall take effect July 1, 19…