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<h1 data-swiftype-index='true'>District of Columbia Home Rule Act</h1>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Cover Page</span>
<span class="" style=""><a href='http://www.govtrack.us/search?q=public%20law%2093-198'>Public Law 93-198</a>; <a href='http://api.fdsys.gov/link?collection=statute&volume=87&page=774'>87 Stat. 774</a>; D.C. Official Code § 1-201.01 et seq. Approved December 24, 1973</span>
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<span class="" style="">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</span>
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<span class="" style="">Revised July 23, 2012</span>
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<span class="" style="">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.</span>
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<span class="" style="">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).</span>
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<span class="" style="">This document has been updated for printing on:</span>
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<span class="" style="">February 18, 2010</span>
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<span class="" style="">July 17, 2009</span>
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<span class="" style="">November 3, 2008</span>
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<span class="" style="">June 6, 2007</span>
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<span class="" style="">April 1, 2005</span>
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<span class="" style="">July 7, 2004</span>
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<span class="" style="">October 5, 2001</span>
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<span class="" style="">January 28, 1999</span>
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<span class="" style="">February 24, 1998</span>
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<span class="" style="">8.18.10</span>
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<span class="" style="">COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</span>
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<span class="" style="">Phil Mendelson, Chairman</span>
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<table><tr><td><span class="" style="">Yvette M. Alexander</span></td>
<td><span class="" style="">Jack Evans</span></td>
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<tr><td><span class="" style="">Marion Barry</span></td>
<td><span class="" style="">Jim Graham</span></td>
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<tr><td><span class="" style="">Muriel Bowser</span></td>
<td><span class="" style="">Kenyan McDuffie</span></td>
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<tr><td><span class="" style="">Michael A. Brown</span></td>
<td><span class="" style="">Vincent B. Orange, Sr.</span></td>
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<tr><td><span class="" style="">David A. Catania</span></td>
<td><span class="" style="">Tommy Wells</span></td>
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<tr><td><span class="" style="">Mary M. Cheh</span></td>
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<span class="" style="">OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL</span>
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<span class="" style="">Under Whose Direction This Document Has Been Prepared</span>
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<span class="" style="">V. David Zvenyach, General Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">John Hoellen, Legislative Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">Benjamin Bryant, Codification Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">Katherine Westcott, Assistant General Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">Melissa Tucker, Assistant General Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">Manasi Venkatesh, Assistant General Counsel</span>
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<span class="" style="">Karen R. Barbour, Legislative Assistant</span>
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<span class="" style="">Ada Arrington, Secretary</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Title I. SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS</span>
<span class="" style="">TITLE I - SHORT TITLE, PURPOSES, AND DEFINITIONS</span>
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<span class="" style="">SHORT TITLE</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 101. </span>
<span class="" style="">This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Home Rule Act".</span>
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<span class="" style="">STATEMENT OF PURPOSES</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 102. </span>
<span class="" style="">Subject to the retention by Congress of the ultimate legislative authority over the nation's capital granted by article I, ' 8, of the Constitution, the intent of Congress is to delegate certain legislative powers to the government of the District of Columbia; authorize the election of certain local officials by the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia; grant to the inhabitants of the District of Columbia powers of local self-government; modernize, reorganize, and otherwise improve the governmental structure of the District of Columbia; and, to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the constitutional mandate, relieve Congress of the burden of legislating upon essentially local District matters.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(b) </span>
<span class="" style="">Congress further intends to implement certain recommendations of the Commission on the Organization of the Government of the District of Columbia and take certain other actions irrespective of whether the charter for greater self-government provided for in title IV of this Act [District Charter] is accepted or rejected by the registered qualified electors of the District of Columbia.</span>
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<span class="" style="">DEFINITIONS</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 103. For the purposes of this Act</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(1) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "District" means the District of Columbia.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(2) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "Council" means the Council of the District of Columbia provided for by part A of title IV [Subchapter III of Chapter 2 of Title 1, D.C. Official Code].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(3) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the District of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(4) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "District of Columbia Council" means the Council of the District of Columbia established under Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(5) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "Chairman" means, unless otherwise provided in this Act, the Chairman of the Council provided for by part A of title IV [Subchapter III of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of the D.C. Official Code].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(6) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "Mayor" means the Mayor provided for by part – of title IV [Subchapter IV of Chapter 2 of Title 1 of the D.C. Official Code].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(7) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "Act" includes any legislation passed by the Council, except where the term "Act" is used to refer to this Act or other Acts of Congress herein specified.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(8) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "capital project" means any physical public betterment or improvement, the acquisition of property of a permanent nature, or the purchase of equipment or furnishings, and includes[:]</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(A) </span>
<span class="" style="">costs of any preliminary plans, studies, and surveys in connection with such betterment, improvement, acquisition, or purchase[;]</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(B) </span>
<span class="" style="">costs incidental to such betterment, improvement, acquisition, or</span>
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<span class="" style="">purchase, and the financing thereof, including the cost of any election, professional fees, printing or engraving, production and reproduction of documents, publication of notices, taking of title, bond insurance, and interest during construction[;] and</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(C) </span>
<span class="" style="">the reimbursement of any fund or account for amounts expended for the payment of any such costs.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(9) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "pending", when applied to any capital project, means authorized but not yet completed.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(10) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "District revenues" means all funds derived from taxes, fees, charges, miscellaneous receipts, grants and other forms of financial assistance, or the sale of bonds, notes, or other obligations, and any funds administered by the District government under cost sharing arrangements.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(11) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "election", unless the context otherwise provides, means an election held pursuant to the provisions of this Act.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(12) </span>
<span class="" style="">The terms "publish" and "publication", unless otherwise specifically provided herein, mean publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the District.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(13) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "District of Columbia Courts" means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(14) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "resources" means revenues, balances, enterprise or other revolving funds, and funds realized from borrowing.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(15) </span>
<span class="" style="">The term "budget" means the entire request for appropriations or loan or spending authority for all activities of all departments or agencies of the District of Columbia financed from all existing, proposed, or anticipated resources, and shall include both operating and capital expenditures.</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Title II. GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION</span>
<span class="" style="">TITLE II -- GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION</span>
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<span class="" style="">REDEVELOPMENT LAND AGENCY</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 201. </span>
<span class="" style="">[Amendment to the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, approved August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 790; D.C. Official Code § 6-301.01 et seq.)]</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(e) </span>
<span class="" style="">[Uncodified] None of the amendments contained in this section shall be construed to affect the eligibility of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency to continue participation in the small business procurement programs under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (<a href='http://api.fdsys.gov/link?collection=statute&volume=67&page=547'>67 Stat. 547</a>).</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(f) </span>
<span class="" style="">[D.C. Official Code § 1-202.01(f)] For the purpose of subsection 713(d), employees in the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency shall be deemed to be transferred to the District of Columbia as of the effective date of this title without a break in service.</span>
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<span class="" style="">NATIONAL CAPITAL HOUSING AUTHORITY</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 202. </span>
<span class="" style="">The National Capital Housing Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Authority") established under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act (D.C. Official Code, sec. 5-101 - 5-115 [, approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 930; D.C. Official Code §' 6-101.01 through 6-102.05)] shall be an agency of the District of Columbia government subject to the organizational and reorganizational powers specified in sections 404(b) and 422(12) of this Act [D.C. Official Code §' 1-204.04(b) and 1-204.22(12)].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(b) </span>
<span class="" style="">All functions, powers, and duties of the President under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act [D.C. Official Code §' 6-101.01 through 6-102.05] shall be vested in and exercised by the Commissioner [Mayor]. All employees, property (real and personal), and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and all other funds, and assets and liabilities of the Authority are authorized to be transferred to the District of Columbia government.</span>
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<span class="" style="">NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION AND MUNICIPAL PLANNING</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 203. </span>
<span class="" style="">[Amendment to An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital, approved June 6, 1924 (43 Stat. 463; D.C. Official Code § 2-1002)]</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 204. </span>
<span class="" style="">All functions of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Secretary") under section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes," approved June 6, 1933 (29 U.S.C. '' 49-49k), with respect to the maintenance of a public employment service for the District, are transferred to the Mayor. After the effective date of this transfer, the Secretary shall maintain with the District the same relationship with respect to a public employment service in the District, including the financing of such service, as he has with the States (with respect to a public employment service in the states) generally.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(b) </span>
<span class="" style="">The Commission [Mayor] is authorized and directed to establish and administer a public employment service in the District and to that end he shall have all necessary powers to cooperate with the Secretary in the same manner as a State under the Act of June 6, 1933, specified in subsection (a) [of this section].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(c) </span>
<span class="" style="">[Amendment to An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes, approved June 6, 1933 (29 U.S.C. 49(b)].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(d) </span>
<span class="" style="">All functions of the Secretary of Labor and of the Director of Apprenticeship under the Act entitled "An Act to provide for voluntary apprenticeship in the District of Columbia", approved May 20, 1946, 1933 (29 U.S.C. '' 49-49k) are transferred to and shall be exercised by the Commissioner [Mayor]. The Office of Director of Apprenticeship provided for in section 3 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 36-123)[D.C. Official Code § 32-1403] is abolished.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(e) </span>
<span class="" style="">All functions of the Secretary under chapter 81 of title 5 of the United States Code, with respect to the processing of claims filed by employees of the government of the District for compensation for work injuries, are transferred to and shall be exercised by the Commissioner [Mayor], effective the day after the day on which the District establishes an independent personnel system or systems.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(f) </span>
<span class="" style="">So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, available, or to be made available in connection with functions transferred to the Commissioner [Mayor] by the provisions of this section, as the Director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget shall determine, are authorized to be transferred from the Secretary to the Commissioner [Mayor].</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(g) </span>
<span class="" style="">Any employee in the competitive service of the United States transferred to the government of the District under the provisions of this section shall retain all the rights, benefits, and privileges pertaining thereto held prior to such transfer.</span>
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<span class="level-num" style="">(h) </span>
<span class="" style="">[Amendment to An Act To amend section 22 of the Act approved March 4, 1925, entitled "An Act providing for sundry matters affecting the naval service, and for other purposes, approved August 16, 1937 (29 U.S.C. ' 50 et seq.)].</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Title III. DISTRICT CHARTER PREAMBLE, LEGISLATIVE POWER, AND CHARTER AMENDING PROCEDURE</span>
<span class="" style="">TITLE III -- DISTRICT CHARTER PREAMBLE, LEGISLATIVE POWER, AND CHARTER AMENDING PROCEDURE</span>
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<span class="" style="">DISTRICT CHARTER PREAMBLE</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 301. </span>
<span class="" style="">The charter for the District of Columbia set forth in title IV [District Charter] shall establish the means of governance of the District following its acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified electors of the District voting thereon in the charter referendum held with respect thereto.</span>
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<span class="" style="">LEGISLATIVE POWER</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 302. </span>
<span class="" style="">Except as provided in sections 601, 602, and 603 [D.C. Official Code §' 1-206.01, 1-206.02, and 1-206.03], the legislative power of the District shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation within the District consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this Act subject to all the restrictions and limitations imposed upon the States by the tenth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States.</span>
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<span class="level-heading" style="">Section 303. </span>
<span class="" style="">The charter set forth in title IV (including any provision of law amended by such title), except sections 401(a) and 421(a) [D.C. Official Code '' 1-204.01(a) and 1-204.21(a)], and part C of such title [D.C. Official Code §' 1-204.31 through 1-204.34], may be amended by an act passed by the Council and ratified by a majority of the registered qualified electors of the District voting in the referendum held for such ratification. The Chairman of the Council shall submit all such acts to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate on the day the Board of Elections and Ethics [Board of Elections] certifies that such act was ratified by a majority of the registered qualified electors voting thereon in such referendum.</span>
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<span class="" style="">An amendment to the charter ratified by the registered electors shall take effect upon the expiration of the 35-calendar-day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and days on which either House of Congress is not in session) following the date such amendment was submitted to the Congress, or upon the date prescribed by such amendment, whichever is later, unless during such 35-day period, there has been enacted into law a joint resolution, in accordance with the procedures specified in section 604 of this act [D.C. Official Code § 1-206.04], disapproving such amendment. In any case in which any such joint resolution disapproving such an amendment has, within such 35-day period, passed both Houses of Congress and has been transmitted to the President, such resolution, upon becoming law subsequent to the expiration of</span>
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