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REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 3 OF 1967

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(a) Those of the President of the Board of Commissioners are transferred to the Chairman of the District of Columbia Council. (b) Those of the Engineer Commissioner are transferred to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia. (c) Those of the other member of the Board of Commissioners are transfered to the Vice Chairman of the Council. SEC. 405. Officers of the Corporation. The functions of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia with respect to being officers of the Corporation under D.C. Code, sec. 1-103 are hereby transferred to the members of the District of Columbia Council and to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia in such manner as to accord with the transfers of functions to the Council and the Commissioner, respectively, as effected^ by the provisions of the foregoing sections of Part IV of this reorganization plan. SEC. 406. Approval or disappro'valhy Commissioner, (a) Each and every action taken by the Council in pursuance of authority transferred to it by the provisions of this reorganization plan in respect of rules or regulations (exclusive of rules and regulations respecting the internal organization or functioning of the Council or the appointment or direction of personnel employed by the Council) or m respect of penalties or taxes shall be promptly presented to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia (provided for in Part III of this reorganization plan) for his approval or disapproval. (b) If the Commissioner approves an action of the Council presented to him under subsection (a) of this section, that action shall become effective immediately or at such later time as may be specified in the action of the Council. (c) If the Commissioner neither approves nor disapproves an action of the Council before the expiration of the first period of ten calendar days following the date on which the action is presented, to him by the Council, the action of the Council shall become effective without the approval of the Commissioner upon the expiration of the ten-day period or at such later time as may be specified in the action of the Council. (d) Where the Commissioner disapproves an action of the Council before the expiration of the first period of ten calendar days following the date on which the action is presented to him by the Council, he shall return the action to the Council before such expiration together with a statement of the reasons for his disapproval. No action so returned shall become effective, except that such an action shall become effective if the Council re-adopts the action by a three-fourths vote of the Council members present and voting within thirty days next following the return of the action to the Council. Any action which becomes effective under this subsection shall be effective upon the readoption thereof by the Council or upon such later date as may be specified in the action of the Council. (e) The authority of the Commissioner under section 305 of this reorganization plan (to delegate functions) shall not extend to his functions under the foregoing subsections of section 406. PART V. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SEC. 501. Status of certain agencies, (a) Functions now vested in any agency listed in subsection (b) of this section, or in any officer or body of or under such agency, shall remain so vested; but all functions

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