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Transmitted Effective * August 11, 1967. 80 Stat. 393.

REORGANIZATION PLAN NO. 3 OF 1967

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Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967^ Prepared by the President and Transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress Assembled^ June i, 1967. Pursuant to the Provisions of Chapter 9 of Title 5 of the United States Code. GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PART I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

101. Definitions, (a) As used in this reorganization plan, the term "the Corporation" means the body-corporate for municipal purposes created a government by the name of the "District of Columbia." (b) Eeferences in this reorganization plan to any provision of the District of Columbia Code are references to the provisions of statutory Jaw codified under that provision and include the said provision as amended, modified, or supplemented prior to the effective date of this reorganization plan (including modifications made by Reorganization Plan No. 5 of 1952 (66 Stat. 824)). SEC. 102. Reorganization. The Corporation is hereby reorganized as provided in the following Parts of this reorganization plan. SECTION.

D.C. Code title 1 app.

PART II. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COUNCIL

Membership.

Term s of office.

SEC. 201, Establishment of the Council, (a) There is hereby established in the Corporation a Council which shall be known as the "District of Columbia Council" (hereinafter referred to as the Council). (b) The Council shall be composed of a Chairman of the Council, a Vice Chairman of the Council, and seven other members, all of whom shall be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. At the time of his appointment each member of the Council shall be a citizen of the United States, shall have been an actual resident of the District of Columbia for three years next preceding his appointment, and shall during that period have claimed residence nowhere else. The Council shall be nonpartisan and no more than six of its members shall be adherents of any one political party. Appointments to the Council shall be made with a view toward achieving a Council membership which will be broadly representative of the District of Columbia community. (c) One or more of the nine Council members hereinabove provided for may be appointed from among (1) retired civilian employees of the Government, (2) retired personnel of the armed services of the United States, and (3) retired personnel of the Corporation. Any person so appointed shall be eligible to receive the compensation provided for m section 204 hereof and appointment hereunder shall not affect his right to receive annuity, pension, or retired pay to which he is otherwise entitled. (d) Three of the appointments first made under this section shall be for terms expiring February 1, 1968, three shall be for terms expiring February 1, 1969, and three shall be for terms expiring February 1, 1970; and thereafter appointments shall be made for terms of three years. Any appointment made to fill a vacancy shall be made only for the unexpired balance of the term. Any member of the Council may continue to serve as such member after the expiration of his Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1967 disapproved by the Senate May 15, 1967 (S. R e s. 114).

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