Whenever any contagious, infectious, or communicable disease affecting domestic animals or live poultry, and especially the disease known as pleuropneumonia, shall be brought into or shall break out in the District of Columbia, it shall be the duty of the Council of said District to take measures to suppress the same promptly and to prevent the same from spreading; and for this purpose the said Council is empowered to order and require that any premises, farm, or farms where such disease exists, or has existed, be put in quarantine; to order all or any animals coming into the District to be detained at any place or places for the purpose of inspection and examination; to prescribe regulations for and to require the destruction of animals or live poultry affected with contagious, infectious, or communicable disease, and for the proper disposition of their hides and carcasses; to prescribe regulations for disinfection, and such other regulations as they may deem necessary to prevent infection or contagion being communicated, and shall report to the Secretary of Agriculture whatever it may do in pursuance of the provisions of this section.
§ 1–333.02. Inspector of Asphalts and Cements; limitation upon compensation and services.
The Inspector of Asphalts and Cements shall not receive or accept compensation of any kind from or perform any work or render any services of a character required of him officially by the District of Columbia to any person, firm, corporation, or municipality other than the District of Columbia.
§ 1–333.03. Director of the Department of General Services. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 1–333.04. Agents of the Director of the Department of General Services. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 1–333.05. Duties of Municipal Architect. [Repealed]
Repealed.
§ 1–333.06. Appropriations for printing schedules or lists of supplies and materials.
No part of any appropriation for the District of Columbia, except for public schools, shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded.
§ 1–333.07. Authority to grant additional compensation.
Authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of the Interior and the President of the United States, in their discretion, to grant additional compensation at rates not to exceed those prevailing without regard to the provisions of §§ 1341, 1342 and 1349 to 1351 and subchapter II of Chapter 15 of Title 31, United States Code, additional compensation at rates not to exceed those prevailing in the District of Columbia for similar or comparable employment to each employee in or under the National Capital Parks and the Executive Mansion Grounds, whose compensation is fixed and adjusted from time to time by a wage board, or whose compensation is fixed without reference to Chapter 51 and subchapter III of Chapter 53 of Title 5, United States Code relating to the classification of government employees and related matters, or whose compensation is limited or fixed specifically by the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1952.
§ 1–333.08. Authority for transporting children of certain employees in District-owned vehicles.
The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to utilize District-owned vehicles for transportation of children of employees of the District of Columbia government residing at Children’s Center between Children’s Center and Laurel, Maryland.
§ 1–333.09. Reception of eminent persons; appropriation authorized.
(a) There is authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $150,000 in any fiscal year for expenses as the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall deem to be necessary, including personal services, for the reception and entertainment (including ceremonial gifts) of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments and other dignitaries and eminent persons visiting in or returning to the District of Columbia, or for the reception or entertainment of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments when the Mayor is visiting any other jurisdiction in his or her official capacity.
(b) There is authorized to be appropriated an amount not to exceed $150,000 in any fiscal year for expenses as the Council of the District of Columbia shall deem to be necessary, including personal services, for the reception and entertainment (including ceremonial gifts) of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments and other dignitaries and eminent persons visiting in or returning to the District of Columbia, or for the reception or entertainment of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments when any Councilmember is visiting any other jurisdiction in his or her official capacity.
(b-1) The Mayor and Council may accept, administer, and use gifts or donations for the purpose of aiding, facilitating, and promoting the conduct of ceremonies in the District, including personal services, for the reception and entertainment, including ceremonial gifts, of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments and other dignitaries and eminent persons visiting or returning to the District, or for the reception or entertainment of officials of foreign, state, local, or federal governments when the Mayor is visiting any other jurisdiction in his or her official capacity.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term “dignitary” or “eminent person” means a person other than a government official, who is of high rank or attainment in his or her occupation or who has performed extraordinary service to, or has significantly contributed to the welfare of, the citizens of the District of Columbia.
(d) Any amounts appropriated for expenses under this section shall be subject to audit and accounted for in the same manner as any other District of Columbia government funds used for governmental purposes.
(e) The Secretary of the District of Columbia and the Secretary to the Council of the District of Columbia shall issue annual reports, which shall be made available to the public and which shall include an itemization of each disbursement under this section by the Mayor of the District of Columbia and by the Council of the District of Columbia, respectively. Records of disbursements under this section shall be retained for not less than 5 years.
§ 1–333.10. Discretionary funds.
(a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia, the Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, the Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the Chief Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the Executive Officer of the District of Columbia Courts, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia, the Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools, the City Administrator, the Executive Director of the District of Columbia Public Library, and the President of the University of the District of Columbia are authorized to provide for the expenditure, within the limits of specified annual appropriation, of funds for appropriate purposes related to their official capacities as they may respectively deem necessary, including for official reception and representation activities. A determination to authorize such expenditures made by one of the foregoing officials shall be final and conclusive, and a certification by such official shall be sufficient voucher for an expenditure of appropriations pursuant to this section.
(b) At the end of each fiscal year, each official authorized to expend appropriations under this section shall provide an itemized accounting of these appropriations, which shall include the purposes for which all expenditures are made, in the form of an annual report, for presentation to the Mayor and the Council, and which shall be made available for public inspection.
(c) This section may be cited as the “Discretionary Funds Act of 1973”.
§ 1–333.11. Imposition of fee for delivery of bad check in payment of obligation due District of Columbia; amount of fee; manner of collection; exception. [Repealed]
