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<level>
    <type>document</type>
    <heading>District of Columbia Home Rule Act</heading>

    <meta>
        <recency>amended through July 18, 2012</recency>
    </meta>

    <level>
        <type>toc</type>
        <heading>Cover Page</heading>

        <text>Public Law 93-198; 87 Stat. 774; D.C. Official Code § 1-201.01 et seq. Approved December 24, 1973</text>

        <text>Prepared by
        Office of the General Counsel;
        Council of the District of Columbia;
        Suite 4;
        1350 Pennsylvania Street, N.W.;
        Washington, D.C. 20004;
        (202) 724-8026</text>

        <text>Revised July 23, 2012</text>

        <text>This document depicts the District of Columbia Home Rule Act
        as enacted by the Congress in December, 1973, and amended through
        May 30, 2011, the date of the last congressional amendment before the
        printing of this document. The text of the Act is in the original format as enacted
        and amended. Where the Office of the General Counsel has added
        brief annotations to the text, those annotations appear in brackets.</text>

        <text>Provisions of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act that
        amend other acts are not included in this document except for those
        amendatory provisions found in Title IV (The District Charter).</text>

        <text>This document has been updated for printing on:</text>

        <level>
            <text>February 18, 2010</text>
            <text>July 17, 2009</text>
            <text>November 3, 2008</text>
            <text>June 6, 2007</text>
            <text>April 1, 2005</text>
            <text>July 7, 2004</text>
            <text>October 5, 2001</text>
            <text>January 28, 1999</text>
            <text>February 24, 1998</text>
        </level>

        <text>8.18.10</text>

        <text>COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</text>

        <text>Phil Mendelson, Chairman</text>

        <table>
            <tr><td>Yvette M. Alexander</td><td>Jack Evans</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Marion Barry</td><td>Jim Graham</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Muriel Bowser</td><td>Kenyan McDuffie</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Michael A. Brown</td><td>Vincent B. Orange, Sr.</td></tr>
            <tr><td>David A. Catania</td><td>Tommy Wells</td></tr>
            <tr><td>Mary M. Cheh</td></tr>
        </table>

        <text>OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL</text>

        <text>Under Whose Direction This Document Has Been Prepared</text>

        <level>
            <text>V. David Zvenyach, General Counsel</text>
            <text>John Hoellen, Legislative Counsel</text>
            <text>Benjamin Bryant, Codification Counsel</text>
            <text>Katherine Westcott, Assistant General Counsel</text>
            <text>Melissa Tucker, Assistant General Counsel</text>
            <text>Manasi Venkatesh, Assistant General Counsel</text>
            <text>Karen R. Barbour, Legislative Assistant</text>
            <text>Ada Arrington, Secretary</text>
        </level>
    </level>