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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 of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all functions of the President of that Board or of any other member of the Board, relating to the listed agency or its functions or to an officer or body thereof or to the functions of such officer or body shall be deemed to be transferred by Part IV of this reorganization plan. (b) The following agencies of the Corporation are the agencies referred to subsection (a) of this section: (1) Board of Education (including the public school system) (2) Board of Library Trustees (including the public libraries) (3) Recreation Board (4) Public Service Commission (5) Zoning Commission (6) Zoning Advisory Council (7) Board of Zoning Adjustment (8) Office of the Recorder of Deeds (9) Armory Board Sec. 502. Incidental transfers. (a) The personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, used, held, available, or to be made available in connection with the offices of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia or in connection with the offices of the commissioners composing that Board shall be transferred as follows at such time or times as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall direct: (1) So much thereof as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine to relate primarily to functions transferred to the District of Columbia Council by the provisions of this reorganization plan shall be transferred to that Council. (2) All other thereof shall be transferred to the Commissioner of the District of Columbia. (b) Such further measures and dispositions as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall deem to be necessary in order to effectuate the transfers referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be carried out in such manner as he shall direct and by such agencies as he shall designate. (c) Unless and until other provision is made in pursuance of section 304 of this reorganization plan or by law, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds which are now under the jurisdiction of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia and are not affected by the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall continue to be attached to or available for the several agencies of the Corporation. Sec. 503. Abolitions. (a) Without prejudice to the continuation of the Corporation, there is hereby abolished the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia. (b) The abolition effected by subsection (a) of this section includes the abolition of the office held by an officer of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army as the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia (10 U.S.C. 3534(a); D.C. Code, sec. 1-201) and the two other offices of Commissioner of the District of Columbia, but nothing in this reorganization plan shall preclude the detail by the President of not more than three officers assigned to the Corps of Engineers to assist the Commissioner of the District of Columbia in discharging his duties (10 U.S.C. 3534(b); D.C. Code, sec. 1-212). (c) The joint board authorized and created by section 6(e) of the Act of March 3, 1925, 43 Stat. 1121, as amended (D.C. Code, sec. 40-603(e)), together with its functions, is hereby abolished. (d) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia shall make such provisions as he may deem necessary with respect to winding up the affairs of (1) the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and (2) the joint board on traffic. Sec. 504. Effective dates. (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, the provisions of this reorganization plan shall take effect on the date determined under section 906(a) of title 5 of the United States Code. (b) Part IV and sections 501, 502, and 503 of this reorganization plan shall take effect when for the first time there are in office under this reorganization plan both (1) the Commissioner provided for in Part III hereof, and (2) not less than six members of the Council provided for in Part II hereof or on such later date as may be specified by the President of the United States. |
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