Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 1.djvu/1259

 PUBLIC LAW 94-399—SEPT. 4, 1976

90 STAT. 1209

(b) For the purpose of conducting an audit for each such fiscal Fiscal year year as required by subsection (a) of this section, the Mayor of the audits. District of Columbia shall, on or after January 2, 1979, select, subject to the advice and consent of the Council of the District of Columbia, a qualified person to conduct such audits for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 1979, and the next following three fiscal years. Thereafter, each individual elected as Mayor in a general election held for Mayor of the District of Columbia shall, on or after January 2 next following his or her election to, and the assuming of, the Office of Mayor, select, subject to the advice and consent of the Council of the District of Columbia, a qualified pereon to conduct such audits for the fiscal year commencing October 1 of the calendar year in which such Mayor takes office, and the next following three fiscal years. The person previously selected for a four-year period shall not succeed himself or herself. If the Council fails to act on any such selection within a thirty-day period following the date on which it receives from the Mayor the name of such person so selected, the Mayor shall be authorized to enter into a contract with that person for the conduct of such audits. I f any person so selected by the Mayor to conduct any such audits for such fiscal years is rejected by the Council, the Mayor shall submit to the Council the name of another qualified person selected by the Mayor to conduct such audits. I n the event that the Notice to Council rejects the second person so selected by the Mayor, the Mayor congressional shall, within t h i r t y days following that rejection, notify the chairman committees. of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, in writing, of that fact. W i t h i n fifteen days following the receipt of that notice, such chairmen shall jointly select a person to conduct such audits and shall inform the Mayor, in writing, of the name of the person so selected. W i t h i n ten days following the receipt by the Mayor of such name, the INIayor shall enter into a contract with such person pursuant to which that person shall conduct such audits for such fiscal years as herein provided. (c) The Mayor shall submit a copy of the audit report with respect Report, submittal to each such audit so conducted to the Congress, the President of the to Congress, United States, the Council of the District of Columbia, and the Comp- President, Council of the troller General. District of SEC. 5. (a) For the purpose of making payments under contracts Columbia, and entered into under sections 2 and 3 of this Act, for reimbursing the Comptroller Comptroller General under subsection (f) of the first section of this General. Act, and for meeting other expenses incurred by the commission under Appropriation this Act, there is authorized to be appropriated to the commission the authorization. sum of $16,000,000, of which $8,000,000 shall be from funds in the D.C. Code Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and $8,000,000 shall be from 47-101 note. funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia. Sums appropriated pursuant to this section are authorized to remain available until expended. (b) No funds appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section out of funds in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia may be used for any payment under any contract entered into pursuant to section 2 or 3 of this Act, for any payment as reimbursement to the General Accounting Office, or for expenses of the commission, in an amount greater than 50 per centum of the total amount of any such payment. (c) The chairman of the commission may enter into contracts under sections 2 and 3 of this Act only to the extent and in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts.

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