such period. If the Commission makes such certification of disapproval within the ten-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 three-fourths 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. TITLE V-ACTION BY CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT ON LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

DEPOSIT AND PUBLICATION

SEC. 501. The District Council shall deposit each legislative proposal passed by it with the Joint Committee. The Joint Committee shall assign to each such legislative proposal an identifying number. After a number has been so assigned, such legislative proposal shall promptly be published in the Congressional Record, and shall also be published, under regulations prescribed by the Joint Committee on Printing, as a House or Senate document.

TAKING EFFECT AS LAW

SEC. 502. (a) No legislative proposal passed by the District Council shall take effect as law unless

(1) it is authorized by this Act to be passed by the District Council; and (2) after it has been deposited with the Joint Committee there has been enacted, by the Congress during which the deposit is made or by the next succeeding Congress, a statute expressing approval of such legislative proposal as so deposited.

Upon the enactment of such statute the legislative proposal, as so deposited, shall (if it is authorized by this Act to be passed by the District Council), on the following day, take effect as a legislative enactment of the District Council and as law of the District, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section.

(b) A legislative proposal authorizing the issuance of bonds shall not so take effect unless, after the enactment of such statute, such legislative proposal has been approved by the qualified electors in the manner and at the time provided in section 802; in which case it shall so take effect at the time provided in such section.

(c) It is suggested that an appropriate form for a statute of approval would be one the matter after the enacting or resolving clause of which (with the number and date inserted) is as follows:

"That pursuant to section 502 of the District of Columbia Charter Act the Legislative proposal numbered deposited by the District Council with the Joint Committee on the District of Columbia on is hereby approved as so deposited."

PRINTING IN STATUTES AT LARGE

SEC. 503. Each legislative proposal (except a legislative proposal authorizing the issuance of bonds) which has been approved by a statute of Congress, and each legislative proposal authorizing the issuance of bonds which has been approved in a referendum as provided in section 802 (b), shall be printed in the United States Statutes at Large in the same voiume as the public laws.

TITLE VI-THE DISTRICT MANAGER

APPOINTMENT, QUALIFICATIONS, AND SALARY

SEC. 601. The District Council shall appoint a District Manager, who shall be chosen solely 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 District Manager during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed, nor within one year after the expiration of such term. The District Manager shall receive a salary at a rate to be fixed by the District Council by ordinance, and shall reside in the District during his tenure of office.

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REMOVAL

SEC. 602. The District Council may by resolution remove the District Manager. If the District Manager is removed, he shall be paid, in addition to the unpaid balance of his salary up to and including the date of his removal, such severance allowance (not to exceed 50 percent of his annual salary) as the District Council shall by resolution prescribe.

POWERS AND DUTIES

SEC. 603. (a) The District Manager shall be the chief executive officer of the District government. He shall be responsible to the District Council for the proper administration of the affairs of the District coming under his jurisdiction or control, and to that end shall have the following functions:

(1) Subject to the provisions of section 1501 (d), he shall appoint, and may remove, personnel (other than members of boards and commissions) in the executive office of the District Manager and the executive departments of the District: Provided, however, That with respect to the appointment or removal of any such personnel used principally in the administration of functions transferred by this Act from any one officer or agency, the provisions of the civil-service laws and rules and regulations thereunder (and of all other laws, rules, and regulations, relating to the appointment or removal of personnel) shall, except to the extent modified or made inapplicable by or under authority of law, apply in the same manner as such provisions applied, before such transfer, with respect to the appointment or removal of personnel used in the administration of such functions.

(2) He shall, through the directors of the several executive departments, supervise and direct the activities of such departments.

(3) 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 executive office of the District Manager and the executive departments of the District. He shall submit such reports to the District Council as soon as possible thereafter

(4) 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.

(5) He may, and, when they are submitted to him pursuant to section 1007 (b), he shall, submit drafts of legislative proposals and ordinances to the District Council.

(6) He shall perform such other duties as the District Council, consistently with the provisions of this Act, may by ordinance or resolution direct. (b) The District Manager may delegate any of his functions (other than the function of approving contracts between the District and the Federal Government under section 1401) to any officer, employee, or agency of the executive office of the District Manager, or to any director of an executive department.

ACTING DISTRICT MANAGER

SEC. 604. To exercise his functions during his temporary absence or disability, the District Manager may, with the approval of the District Council, designate one of the Assistants to the District Manager or a director of an executive department as Acting District Manager. If the District Manager fails to make such designation, or in case of a vacancy in the office of District Manager or of suspension from duty of the District Manager, the District Council may by resolution designate one of the Assistants to the District Manager or a director of an executive department as Acting District Manager.

ASSISTANTS TO THE DISTRICT MANAGER

SEC. 605. The District Council, by ordinance, shall (1) authorize the District Manager to appoint as many Assistants to the District Manager as it deems necessary to assist him in the exercise of his functions, and (2) fix the compensation of each. Each Assistant to the District Manager shall perform such duties as the District Manager may prescribe and shall serve at the pleasure of the District Manager.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT MANAGER

SEC. 606. (a) The functions of the following agencies of the District government are hereby transferred to the District Manager: The Purchasing Division,

the Division of Services to Veterans and War Workers, the Office of Administrator of Rent Control, the Board of Parole, the Office of the Budget Officer (including the Personnel Unit), the Division of Printing and Publications, the Police and Firemen's Retiring and Relief Board, the Automobile Board, the Wage Board; and the trial boards of the Metropolitan Police force and the Fire Department. The functions of the Bureau of Federal Supply, in the Department of the Treasury, with respect to the purchase of material, supplies, and equipment for the District, are hereby transferred to the District Manager. For the purposes of this subsection, the functions of an agency include (1) the functions of the head of such agency, and (2) the functions, if any, transferred to such agency or head by section 423.

(b) The agencies of the District government referred to in subsection (a) are hereby transferred to the executive office of the District Manager. Any vacancy occurring in any board transferred by this subsection (other than a vacancy occurring in an ex officio position) shall be filled by appointment by the District Manager. Any member of any such board (other than an ex officio member) may at any time be removed from his position as a member of such board by the District Manager.

(c) Whenever the District Manager deems it appropriate for the administration of his functions, he may

(1) reorganize or abolish any agency (other than a board) transferred to the executive office of the District Manager by subsection (b);

(2) create new agencies in the executive office of the District Manager, and reorganize or abolish any agency so created;

(3) abolish the office or position of any officer or employee (other than a member of a board) transferred to the executive office of the District Manager by section 1501; and

(4) create new offices and positions within the executive office of the District Manager, and abolish any office or position so created.

(d) The District Council may by ordinance reorganize or abolish any board transferred by subsection (b).

OFFICE OF THE ARCHIVIST; DISTRICT ARCHIVES COMMISSION

SEC. 607. (a) There is hereby created within the executive office of the District Manager the Office of Archivist of the District of Columbia. The District Manager shall appoint the Archivist on the basis of his archival experience and qualifications. The Archivist shall receive a salary at a rate fixed by the District Council by ordinance.

(b) The Archivist shall have the following functions:

(1) to inspect, survey, and appraise the records of the District government and of former District governments;

(2) to advise the District agencies in the maintenanec and disposition of their records;

(3) to make recommendations and plans for an archives repository;

(4) to accession noncurrent records of enduring value and other historical papers relating to the District which are determined by the District Archives Commission (created by subsection (d) of this section) to be eligible for transfer to the custody of the Archivist;

(5) to make available for inspection by Members of Congress, District officers, and the public the records in his custody except those records the use of which has been restricted at the request of the head of a District agency, made in the public interest at the time of transfer to the custody of the Archivist; (6) to establish adequate facilities for the appropriate care and use of the records in his custody, for their rpeair and rehabilitation, and for their photographic reproduction; and

(7) to submit from time to time to the District Council, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the District Archives Commission, lists of records which do not have sufficient administrative, legal, research, or other value to warrant continued preservation, together with recommendations for their disposition.

(c) The Office of the Archivist shall have an official seal which shall be noticed judicially.

(d) There is hereby created a District Archives Commission, to be composed of the District Manager, who shall serve as chairman, the secretary of the District Council, the Director of the Department of Finance, the Director of the Department of Law, the secretary of the Board of Education, the President of the Columbia Historical Society, and two representatives of institutions of higher learning

in the District to be appointed by the Mayor with the approval of the District Council for such terms as the District Council shall by ordinance prescribe. No member shall receive compensation for his services as such. Each member may appoint an alternate.

(e) Five members or their alternates shall constitute a quorum.

Any vacancy

in the Commission shall be filled for the duration of the unexpired term in the manner provided for original appointment.

(f) The Commission shall determine the classes of records and related material to be preserved in the custody of the Archivist, and shall prescribe rules and regulations for the transfer of records to his custody.

TITLE VII-THE DISTRICT BUDGET

FISCAL YEAR

SEC. 701. 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.

SUBMISSION OF BUDGET AND BUDGET MESSAGE

SEC. 702. The District Manager shall submit annually to the District Council, at its first regular meeting in March, a budget and budget message.

CONTENTS OF THE BUDGET

SEC. 703. (a) At the head of the budget there shall appear a simple and clear summary of the detailed estimates of anticipated revenues and proposed expenditures. The amount to be raised by property tax shall be stated separately.

(b) The budget shall provide a complete financial plan for the budget year. It shall contain detailed estimates of all anticipated revenues and all proposed expenditures. The estimates of anticipated revenues may include an amount not to exceed the amount certified by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget pursuant to section 2001 (c) as authorized to be appropriated by Congress as the payment for the budget year by the United States toward defraying the expenses of the District government. The total anticipated revenues shall equal or exceed the total proposed expenditures.

(c) The budget shall not contain any proposed expenditure for the support in whole or in part of

(1) any private corporation or agency; any charitable, religious, or sectarian society or group; any club, fraternity, or brotherhood; or any other organization or group similar to the foregoing; or

(2) the Temporary Home for Former Soldiers and Sailors, the National Guard of the District of Columbia, or the National Capital Park and Planning Commission.

The agencies referred to in paragraph (2) shall be considered to be Federal agencies and appropriations for their support shall be made in the same manner as for other Federal agencies.

CONTENTS OF THE BUDGET MESSAGE

SEC. 704. (a) The budget message submitted by the District Manager to the District Council shall be explanatory of the budget, shall contain an outline of the proposed financial policies of the District for the budget year, and shall describe in connection therewith the important features of the budget plan. It shall set forth the reasons for salient changes from the previous year in revenue and expenditure items and shall explain any major changes in financial policy. (b) The budget message shall contain a statement of the amount proposed to be appropriated in the budget, and the amount proposed to be raised by the issuance of bonds during the budget year, for each capital project pending or proposed to be undertaken within the budget year. It shall also contain an estimate of the cost of each capital project which the District Manager believes should be undertaken within the five fiscal years next succeeding the budget year. (c) Attached to the budget message shall be such supporting schedules, exhibits, and other explanatory material, in respect to both current operations and capital improvements, as the District Manager shall believe useful to the District Council.

PREPARATION OF THE BUDGET

SEC. 705. (a) The head of each District agency other than the Board of Education, and the Chief of Engineers (with respect to the Washington Aqueduct), shall prepare annually estimates of revenue and expenditure, detailed by organization units and character and object of expenditure, and such supporting data as the District Manager may request, together with an estimate of all capital projects pending or which such agency head or the Chief of Engineers believes should be undertaken within the budget year and within the five next succeeding years. Such estimates and data shall be submitted to the District Manager at such time as the District Manager shall prescribe. In preparing the budget, the District Manager shall review each such estimate, and may, after hearing the officer who submitted it, revise any such estimate. In any case in which an item of proposed expenditure submitted by the Chief of Engineers, the Juvenile Court, the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Board of Elections, or any agency created or continued by title XII is reduced by the District Manager, the budget shall contain, on a memorandum basis, the item of proposed expenditure as submitted.

(b) The Board of Education shall prepare estimates of its revenue and expenditures, detailed by organization units and character and object of expenditure, and such other supporting data as the District Council may request; together with an estimate of all capital projects pending or which the Board of Education believes should be undertaken within the budget year and within the five next succeeding years. The President of the Board shall, on or before the date specified by the District Council, submit the estimates and data prescribed by this subsection to the District Council, which shall transmit such estimates to the District Manager for inclusion, without revision by him, in the budget. The District Manager may, at the request of the District Council, review such estimates and submit to the District Council recommendations for changes therein.

BUDGETARY DETAILS FIXED BY DISTRICT COUNCIL

SEC. 706. The District Council may by ordinance provide for (1) the preparation and submission of the budget and budget message, (2) the form and contents of the budget and budget message, and (3) the manner and extent to which estimated revenues and proposed expenditures shall be classified and itemized.

BUDGET A PUBLIC RECORD

SEC. 707. The budget and budget message and all supporting schedules shall be a public record in the office of the secretary of the District Council open to inspection by anyone. The District Manager shall cause sufficient copies of the budget and budget message to be prepared for distribution to interested persons.

PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

SEC. 708. At the meeting of the District Council at which the budget and budget message are submitted, the District Council shall determine the place and time of the public hearing on the budget, and shall cause to be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation in the District a notice of the place and time, not less than seven days after date of publication, at which the District Council will hold a public hearing.

PUBLIC HEARING ON BUDGET

SEC. 709. At the time and place so advertised, or at any time and place to which such public hearing shall from time to time be adjourned, the District Council shall hold a public hearing on the budget as submitted, at which all interested persons shall be given an opportunity to be heard, for or against the estimates or any item thereof.

FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF BUDGET

SEC. 710. After the conclusion of such public hearing, the District Council may insert new items or many increase or decrease the items of the budget. Before inserting any additional item or increasing any item of appropriation, it must cause to be published a notice setting forth the nature of the proposed