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Walter Washington, the first elected mayor of the District of Columbia. Congress has intervened in the District's local affairs several times since the Home Rule Act in 1973. In most instances, Congress has prohibited the District from spending funds to implement laws passed by the district council instead of directly overturning them.
District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act; Other short titles: District of Columbia Home Rule Act: Long title: To reorganize the governmental structure of the District of Columbia, to provide a charter for local government in the District of Columbia subject to acceptance by a majority of the registered qualified electors in the District of Columbia, to delegate ...
The District of Columbia has a mayor–council government that operates under Article One of the United States Constitution and the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. The Home Rule Act devolves certain powers of the United States Congress to the local government, which consists of a mayor and a 13-member council. However, Congress retains the ...
The District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 devolved certain Congressional powers over the District to a local government administered by an elected mayor, currently Muriel Bowser, and the thirteen-member Council of the District of Columbia. However, Congress retains the right to review and overturn any of the District's laws. [5]
The local government has been a strong steward of the evolving architectural landscape of the district through zoning and preservation laws since gaining control through the Home Rule Act. [11] On November 19, 2013, the National Capital Planning Commission released their final recommendations regarding the Height Master Plan for District of ...
By Act of Congress of July 30, 1947 (ch. 388, 61 Stat. 638), the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives is authorized to print bills to codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws relating to the District of Columbia and cumulative supplements thereto, similar in style, respectively, to the Code of Laws of the United States, and supplements thereto, and to so ...
Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the District of Columbia (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Home rule and voting rights of the District of Columbia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
School districts are generally governed by the general laws; a district may adopt a home rule charter, [17] but no district has chosen to do so. [18] Counties and "special districts" (other special-purpose governmental entities besides cities and school districts) are governed solely by the general laws and prohibited from adopting home rule. Utah