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 112 STAT. 2681-143 PUBLIC LAW 105-277 —OCT. 21, 1998 SEC. 140. If a department or agency of the government of the District of Columbia is under the administration of a courtappointed receiver or other court-appointed official during fiscal year 1999 or any succeeding fiscal year, the receiver or official shall prepare and submit to the Mayor, for inclusion in the annual budget of the District of Columbia for the year, annual estimates of the expenditures and appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the department or agency. All such estimates shall be forwarded by the Mayor to the Council, for its action pursuant to sections 446 and 603(c) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, without revision but subject to the Mayor's recommendations. Notwithstanding any provision of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat. 790; Public Law 93-198; D.C. Code sec. 1 -101 et seq.) the Council may comment or make recommendations concerning such annual estimates but shall have no authority under such Act to revise such estimates. SEC. 141. The District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority and the Superintendent of the District of Columbia Public Schools are hereby directed to report to the Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of the House of Representatives not later than April 1, 1999, on all measures necessary and steps to be taken to ensure that the District's Public Schools open on time to begin the 1999- 2000 academic year. SEC. 142. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, or regulation, an employee of the District of Columbia public schools shall be— (1) classified as an Educational Service employee; (2) placed under the personnel authority of the Board of Education; and (3) subject to all Board of Education rules. (b) School-based personnel shall constitute a separate competitive area from nonschool-based personnel who shall not compete with school-based personnel for retention purposes. SEC. 143. (a) RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF OFFICIAL VEHICLES.— (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, none of the funds made available by this Act or by any other Act may be used to provide any officer or employee of the District of Columbia with an official vehicle unless the officer or employee uses the vehicle only in the performance of the officer's or employee's official duties. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "official duties" does not include travel between the officer's or employee's residence and workplace (except in the case of an officer or employee of the Metropolitan Police Department who resides in the District of Columbia or is otherwise designated by the Chief of the Department). (2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to any vehicle provided to the officer of the Metropolitan Police Department who was wounded in the line of duty and who is referred to in the letter of July 15, 1998, from the Chief of the Department to the Chair of the Subcommittee on the District of Columbia of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Chief may donate the vehicle to such officer as a gift on behalf of the District of

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