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PUBLIC LAW 91-358-JULY 29, 1970

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R E F E R E XC E S TO ABOLISHED AGENCIES AND OFFICES

SEC. 198. Any reference in an amendment made by this title to an agency or office of the government of the District of Columbia abolished by Reorganization Plan Number 5 of 1952 (D.C. Code, title 1, App.) is not to be construed as a restablishment of that office or agency or as a change in the functions, powers, and duties of the Commissioner of the District of Columbia or of the District of Columbia Council.

^6 Stat. 824.

EFFECTIVE DATE

SEC. 199. (a) The effective date of this title (and the amendments made by this title) shall be the first day of the seventh calendar month which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the following provisions shall take eifect as provided in the following paragraphs: (1) The provisions of chapter 25 (relating to attorneys) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made by part A of this title, shall take effect on April 1, 1972. The provi- ^"^^' P- 52O. sions of chapter 21 (relating to attorneys) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, in effect on the day before the effective date of this title, shall remain in effect until April 1, 1972; except that during the period beginning on the effective date of this title and ending April 1, 1972, section 11-2103 of such chapter is amended to read as Ante, p. sie. follows: "§ 11-2103. Disbarment by District Court upon conviction of crime "When a member of the bar of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, and a certified copy of the conviction is presented to the court, the court shall, pending final determination of an appeal from the conviction, suspend the member of the bar from practice. Upon reversal of the conviction the court may vacate or modify the suspension. If a final judgment of conviction is certified to the court, the name of the member of the bar so convicted shall be struck from the roll of the members of the bar and he shall thereafter cease to be a member. Upon the granting of a pardon to a member so convicted, the court may vacate or modify the order of disbarment." (2) The provisions of chapter 21 (relating to the Register of Wills) of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code, as contained in the revision made b ^ part A of this title, shall take effect immediately following the expiration of the thirty-month period beginning on the effective date of this title. The provisions of sections 11-504 through 11-506 of title 11 of the District of Columbia Code (relating to the 77 Stat. 480. Register of Wills), in effect on the day before the effective date of this title, shall remain in effect until the expiration of such thirty-month period. During such thirty-month period, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall fix the compensation of the Register of Wills without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 of the United States Code, but at a rate not exceed- ^^^^ ^*^*- '*'*^' ing the maximum rate authorized for GS-IB of the General Schedule. 5 USC 5101, (3) The amendments made by the following sections of this title ^331. (relating to those matters over which the United States District Court " ^' ^' for the District of Columbia retains temporary jurisdiction) shall take effect as follows: (A) Immediately following the expiration of the eighteenmonth period beginning on the effective date of this title in the case of amendments made by sections 150(b), 150(c)(1), 150(c) ^"'e* P- 567. (3), 150(c)(5)(A) (ii), 150(e), 1.50(f), 1 5 0 (g)(3)(A), 150(g) (4), 150(g)(5), 150(g)(8), 150(h), and 150(i)(1).

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