(c) Meetings of the District Council shall be open to the public and shall be held at reasonable hours and at such places as to accommodate a reasonable number of spectators. The records, journals, and books of the Council provided for in section 332 (b) shall be open to public inspection and available for copying during all regular office hours of the Council Secretary. Any citizen shall have the right to petition and be heard by the Council at any of its meetings, within reasonable limits as set by the Council Chairman, the Council concurring.

COMMITTEES

SEC. 334. The Council Chairman, with the advice and consent of two-thirds of the Council, shall appoint such standing and special committees as may be expedient for the conduct of the Council's business. All committee meetings shall be open to the public except when ordered closed by the committee chairman, with the approval of a majority of the members of the committee.

ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS

SEC. 335. (a) The Council, to discharge the powers and duties imposed herein, shall enact ordinances and resolutions, upon a vote of a majority of the members of the Council, unless otherwise provided herein. Ordinances shall be used for permanent legislative acts and shall, with the exception of the budget ordinance, embrace but one subject, which shall be expressed in the title. Resolution shall be used to express simple determinations, decisions, or directions of the District Council of a special or temporary character for the purpose of initiating, effecting, or carrying out its administrative duties and functions under the laws and ordinances governing the District.

(b) The ordaining clause of all ordinances passed by the District Council shall be "The Council of the District of Columbia, as the agent of the Congress of the United States, to promote peace, welfare, justice, and safety in the District of Columbia, hereby ordains :".

The resolving clause of all resolutions passed by the District Council shall be "The Council of the District of Columbia hereby resolves,".

ORDINANCES

SEC. 336. The District Council shall not pass any ordinance before the thirteenth day following the day on which it is introduced. Subject to the other limitations of this Act, this requirement may be waived by the unanimous vote of the members present.

PROCEDURE FOR ZONING ORDINANCES

SEC. 337. (a) Before any zoning ordinance for the District is passed by the District Council

(1) the District Council shall deposit the ordinance in its introduced form, with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Such Commission shall within thirty days after the date of such deposit, report to the District Council whether the interests of the Federal Government would be best served by passing the ordinance in its introduced form, by passing it in an amended form suggested by the Commission, or by its rejection. The District Council may not pass the ordinance unless it has received such report or the Commission has failed to report within the thirtyday period above specified; and

(2) the District Council (or an appropriate committee thereof) shall hold a public hearing on the ordinance. At least thirty days' notice of the hearing shall be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District. Such notice shall include the time and place of the hearing and a summary of all changes in existing law which would be made by adoption of the ordinance. The District Council (or committee thereof holding the hearing) shall give such additional notice as it finds expedient and practicable. At the hearing interested persons shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard. The hearing may be adjourned from time to time. The time and place of the adjourned meeting shall be publicly announced before adjournment is had.

(b) The District Council shall deposit with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission each zoning ordinance passed by it. If in the opinion of the Commission such ordinance, as passed, would adversely affect the inter

ests of the Federal Government, the Commission shall within thirty days after the date of such deposit certify to the District Council its disapproval of such ordinance. If such certification of disapproval is not made within such thirtyday period, the zoning ordinance shall take effect as law on the day following the expiration of such period. If the Commission makes such certification of disapproval within the thirty-day period above specified, the zoning ordinance shall take effect as law only if, after the day on which such certification is received, the District Council passes, by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of the members then holding office, a resolution so providing; in which case the zoning ordinance shall take effect as law on the day following the day on which such resolution is passed, or at such later date as the Council may designate.

INVESTIGATIONS BY DISTRICT COUNCIL

SEC. 338. (a) The District Council, or any committee or person authorized by it, shall have power to investigate any matter relating to the affairs of the District; and for that purpose may require the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, and other evidence. For such purpose any member of the District Council (if the District Council is conducting the inquiry) or any member of the committee, or the person conducting the inquiry, may issue subpenas and may administer oaths.

(b) In case of contumacy by, or refusal to obey a subpena issued to, any person, the District Council, committee, or person conducting the investigation shall have power to refer the matter to any judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, who may by order require such person to appear and to give or produce testimony or books, papers, or other evidence, bearing upon the matter under investigation; and any failure to obey such order may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof as in the case of failure to obey a subpena issued, or to testify, in a case pending before such court.

TITLE IV-MAYOR

APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SALARY

SEC. 401. The President of the United States shall appoint a Mayor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate for a term of four years, to be chosen on the basis of his executive and administrative qualifications, with special reference to his experience, in, or his knowledge of, the administration of the affairs of local government. No member of the District Council shall be appointed Mayor during the term for which he shall have been elected, nor within one year after the expiration of such term. The Mayor shall receive an annual salary of $15,000, and an allowance for official expenses, which he shall certify in reasonable detail to the District Council, of not more than $2,500 annually. The Mayor shall have been a resident of and domiciled in the District of Columbia during the three years prior to his appointment, and shall reside in the District during his tenure of office.

POWERS AND DUTIES

SEC. 402. The Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of the District Government. He shall be responsible for the proper administration of the affairs of the District coming under his jurisdiction or control, and to that end shall have the following powers and functions:

(1) He shall act as the official spokesman for the District and as the head of the District for ceremonial purposes.

(2) He shall appoint, by and with the consent of the Council (unless the Council shall, by ordinance, waive such consent) and may remove, personnel in the executive office of the Mayor, the executive departments of the District, members of boards and commissions, and personnel to occupy positions formerly occupied by one or more members of the Board of Commissioners, all subject to the provisions of title X and section 1201 (d).

(3) He shall, through the heads of administrative boards, offices, and agencies, supervise and direct the activities of such boards, offices, and agencies.

(4) He shall, at the end of each fiscal year, prepare reports for such year of (a) the finances of the District, and (b) the administrative activities of the

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executive office of the Mayor and the executive departments of the District. shall submit such reports to the District Council as soon as possible thereafter. (5) He shall keep the District Council advised of the financial condition and future needs of the District and make such recommendations to the District Council as may seem to him desirable.

(6) He may submit drafts of ordinances to the District Council.

(7) He shall perform such other duties as the District Council, by ordinance or resolution, consistent with the provisions of this Act, may direct.

(8) He may delegate with the consent of the District Council any of his functions (other than the function of approving contracts between the District and the Federal Government under section 1101) to any officer, employee, or agency of the executive office of the Mayor, or to any director of an executive department, (9) He shall within ten days after the adoption of any ordinance or resolution by the District Council approve or disapprove such resolution or ordinance, in the event of disapproval stating his reasons therefor. If the Mayor shall not act thereon within ten days, such ordinance or resolution shall become law as provided in this Act. Upon such disapproval, such resolution or ordinance shall not become law unless pursuant to section 324 (a) (10) it shall subsequently within thirty days after such veto be readopted by vote of two-thirds of the members of the District Council, whereupon it shall become law in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

(10) The Mayor or the District Council may propose to the Congress legislation dealing with any subject not falling within the competence of the Mayor and the District Council as provided in this Act.

(11) As custodian he shall use and authenticate the corporate seal of the District in accordance with the rules of the District Council.

(12) He shall have the right, under the rules to be adopted by the Council, to be heard by the Council or any of its committees.

TITLE V-THE DISTRICT BUDGET

FISCAL YEAR

SEC. 501. The fiscal year of the District of Columbia shall begin on the 1st day of July and shall end on the 30th day of June of the succeeding calendar year. Such fiscal year shall also constitute the budget and accounting year.

BUDGETARY DETAILS FIXED BY DISTRICT COUNCIL

SEC. 502. The District Council shall provide for (1) the preparation and submission to it by the Mayor of the annual budget of the District and budget message, (2) the form and contents of the budget and budget message, and (3) the manr and extent to which estimated revenues and proposed expenditures shall be classified and itemized.

ADOPTION OF BUDGET

SEC. 503. The District Council shall by ordinance adopt the budget for each fiscal year not later than May 15, except that the District Council may, by resolution, extend the period for its adoption. The effective date of the budget shall be July 1 of the same calendar year.

BUDGET ESTABLISHES APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 504. From the effective date of the budget, the several amounts stated therein as proposed expenditures shall be and become appropriated to the several objects and purposes therein named.

SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 505. The District Council may at any time adopt an ordinance by vote of two-thirds of its members appropriating funds in addition to those appropriated pursuant to section 504 to the extent unobligated funds are available; and for such purpose unobligated funds may include those borrowed in accordance with the provisions of section 621.

TITLE VI-BORROWING

PART 1-BORROWING FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

BORROWING POWER; DEBT LIMITATION

SEC. 601. The District may incur indebtedness by issuing its negotiable bonds to finance any capital project which it may lawfully construct or acquire: Provided, That the District shall at no time become indebted under this part to an amount in the aggregate exceeding 5 per centum of the assessed value of the taxable real property in the District according to the last general assessment previous to incurring debt.

REFERENDUM ON BOND ISSUE

SEC. 602. (a) Bonds shall be issued only when authorized by an ordinance which has taken effect in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section. (b) In case of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds, the Board of Elections shall submit such ordinance to the qualified electors as defined in section 906, subsections (1) through (5), inclusive, for a referendum thereon at the first election which is held not less than thirty days after the date of enactment of such ordinance. If an ordinance so submitted is approved by a majority voting thereon, it shall take effect on the day following the day on which the Board of Elections certifies the result of the referendum.

(c) The Board of Elections is authorized to prescribe such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of subsection (b) of this section.

CONTENTS OF BORROWING LEGISLATION

SEC. 603. An ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds for one or more capital projects may be enacted by a majority of the council members and shall contain at least the following provisions:

(1) A description of each project in brief and general terms sufficient for reasonable identification.

(2) A statement of the estimated maximum cost of each project.

(3) An appropriation for each project.

(4) To finance the project or projects, an authorization of a single bond issue in a stated amount.

(5) A determination of the period of usefulness of each project, and (if the bond issue is for more than one project) the average period of usefulness of all the projects, taking into consideration the amount to be raised for each project by such bond issue.

MAXIMUM MATURITY OF BONDS

SEC. 604. (a) Bonds may be issued for terms not exceeding thirty years. Within such maximum period, (1) bonds issued to finance one capital project shall mature not later than the expiration of the period of usefulness stated in ordinance authorizing the issue, and (2) bonds issued to finance more than one capital project shall mature not later than the expiration of the average period of usefulness stated in the ordinance authorizing the issue.

(b) The period of usefulness of each project, and the average period in the case of two or more projects combined in one authorized issue, shall be computed from the effective date of the ordinance by virtue of which the bonds are issued. The determination of the District Council in the ordinance, as to the period of usefulness or average period, shall be conclusive in any action or proceeding involving the validity of the bonds.

BONDS PAYABLE IN ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS

SEC. 605. All bonds issued pursuant to this Act shall be paid in consecutive annual installments, no one of which shall be more than 50 per centum in excess of the smallest prior installment. The first annual installment shall be paid not more than one year after the effective date of the ordinance by virtue of which the bonds are issued. The last annual installment shall be paid not later than the date of expiration of the period of usefulness of the project for the financing of which such bonds are issued, or of the average period of two or more combined projects, as determined in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds.

PUBLICATION OF EORROWING LEGISLATION

SEC. 606. Within three days after the effective date of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds the Mayor shall cause the s me to be published once in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District together with a notice in substantially the following form:

"NOTICE.

"The ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds published herewith has become effective, and the twenty-day period of limitation within which a suit, action, or proceeding questioning the validity of such ordinance can be commenced as provided in the District of Columbia Charter Act has begun to run from the date of this publication. "(Signed)

"Mayor."

SHORT PERIOD OF LIMITATION

SEC. 607. When twenty days shall have elapsed after the date of the publication of notice pursuant to section 606 in respect of an ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds (1) any recitals or statements of fact contained in such ordinance, or in the preambles or recitals thereof, shall be deemed to be true for the purpose of determining the validity of the bonds thereby authorized and the District and all others interested shall forever thereafter be estopped from denying the same; (2) such ordinance shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly and regularly passed by the District and to comply with the provisions of this Act and of all laws; and (3) the validity of such ordinance shall not thereafter be questioned by either a party plaintiff or a party defendant, except in a suit, action, or proceeding commenced prior to the expiration of such twenty days.

PUBLIC SALE

SEC. 608. All bonds issued under this Act shall be sold at public sale upon sealed proposals after (1) at least ten days' notice published at least once in a publication carrying municipal bond notices and devoted primarily to financial news or to the subject of State and municipal bonds, and (2) at least ten days' notice published at least once in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District. No such proposal shall be considered unless there is deposited with it, as a down payment, a certified check for an amount equal to 10 per centum of the offered purchase price. Whenever a proposal is rejected the check deposited with it shall be returned.

OTHER PROCEEDINGS BY RESOLUTION

SEC. 609. All matters in connection with the authorization, sale, and issuance of the bonds not specifically required to be provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds may be determined by the District Council by resolution.

PART 2 SHORT-TERM BORROWING

BORROWING TO MEET EMERGENCY APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 621. In the absence of unappropriated available revenues to meet supplemental appropriations made pursuant to section 505, the District Council may by ordinance authorize the issuance of notes, in a total amount not to exceed 5 per centum of the total appropriations for the current fiscal year, each of which shall be designated "supplemental" and may be renewed from time to time, but all such notes and renewals thereof shall be paid not later than the close of the fiscal year following that in which such ordinance becomes effective.

BORROWING IN ANTICIPATION OF REVENUES

SEC. 622. In any budget year, in anticipation of the collection or receipt of revenues of that budget year, the District Council may by ordinance authorize the borrowing of money by the execution of negotiable notes of the District, not to exceed 20 per centum of the total anticipated revenue, each of which

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