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RP:0RGANIZATI0N PLANS

[66 VSTAT.

• Trees and Parking Division Tuberculosis Hospital Undertakers' Examining Committee Veterans' Service Center Water Division Sec. 2. Abolition of agencies.—(a) The offices and agencies listed in section 1 hereof, including the offices of the heads of such agencies, are abolished. The provisions of the foregoing sentence with respect to any such office or agency shall become effective at such time as the Board of Commissioners shall specify, but in no event later than June 30, 1953. co^uS °^ ^'"^^®'' (b) The Office of People's Counsel established by section 3 of the 44 Stat. 921. act of December 15, 1926 (D. C. Code, 1940 edition, sec. 43-205) and its functions are abolished. (c) The Board of Commissioners shall make such provisions as the said Board may deem necessary with respect to winding up the affairs of any office or agency abolished by the provisions of this section. Sec. 3. Performance of functions of Board.—(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Board of Commissioners is hereby authorized to make from time to time such provisions as it deems appropriate to authorize the performance of any of its functions, including any function transferred to or otherwise vested in the Board of Commissioners by this reorganization plan, by any member of the Board of Commissioners, or by any other officer, employee, or agency of the Government of the District of Columbia, except the courts thereof. (b) The Board of Commissioners shall not provide for the performance by any member of the Board of Commissioners, or by any other officer, employee, or agency of: (1) any function vested in the said Board by Act of Congress with respect to making and adopting regulations except those pertaining to the administration of or procedure before any agency of the Government of the District of Columbia; (2) the function of approving any contract in excess of $25,000; (3) the function of appointing or removing the head of any agency responsible directly to the Board of Commissioners; or (4) the function of approving the budget for the District of Columbia. Sec. 4. Establishment of new offices.—(a) There are hereby established in the Government of the District of Columbia so many agencies and offices, and with such names or titles, as the Board of Commissioners shall from time to time determine. The said offices shall be filled by appointment by, or under the authority of, the Board of Commissioners. Each officer so appointed shall perform the functions delegated to him in accordance with this reorganization plan and shall receive compensation to be fixed in accordance with the classification laws, as now or hereafter amended, except that the compensation for not to exceed fifteen such offices at any one time may be fixed without regard to the numerical limitations on positions 63 Stat. 959.

set forth in section 505 of the Classification Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 1105).

(b) There are hereby established in the Government of the District of Columbia two new offices one of which shall have the title of "Chief of Police" and the other the title of "Fire Chief." The Chief of Police and the Fire Chief shall each be appointed by the Board of Commissioners and shall each receive compensation fixed by the said Board at a rate of not in excess of $12,800 per annum. Sec. 5. Transfer of personnel, property, records, and funds.—With respect to personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, available or to be made

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