§ 50. Promotion of labor standards of apprenticeship

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1937

   Pub. L. 75–663 § 1 · 50 Stat. 664

   Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 50

   Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 663, § 1, 50 Stat. 664

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 663, § 1, 50 Stat. 664

2. 1973

   Pub. L. 93–198 title II · 87 Stat. 774

   Inserted · 29 U.S.C. § 50

   Pub. L. 93–198 inserted provision that “State” includes the District of Columbia

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 93–198 inserted provision that “State” includes the District of Columbia.

   Enacted provision · exact public law
   TITLE II— GOVERNMENTAL REORGANIZATION Sec. 201. redevelopment land agency The District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945 (D.C. Code, secs. 5–701–5–719) is amended as follows: (a) Subsection 60 Stat. 793. (a) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5–703 (a)) is amended to read as follows: “(a) The District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency is hereby established as an instrumentality of the District of Columbia government, and shall be composed of five members appointed by the Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commissioner’), with the advice and consent of the Council of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Council’). The Commissioner shall name one member as chairman. No more than two members may be officers of the District of Columbia government. Each member shall serve for a term of five years except that of the members first appointed under this section, one shall serve for a term of one year, one shall serve for a term of two years, one shall serve for a term of three years, one shall serve for a term of four years, and one shall serve for a’term of five years, as designated by the Commissioner. The terms of the members first appointed under this section shall begin on or after January 2, 1975. Should any member who is an officer of the District of Columbia government cease to be such an officer, then his term as a member shall end on the day he ceases to be such an officer. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the Agency shall be appointed to serve for the remainder of the term during which such vacancy arose. Any member who holds no other salaried public position shall receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the agency.” (b) Subsection (b) of section 4 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5–703 (b)) is amended— (1) by inserting after “forth” at the end of the first sentence of such section “, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit the District of Columbia government from dissolving the corporation, eliminating the board of directors, or taking such other action with respect to the powers and duties of such Agency, including those actions specified in subsection (c), as is deemed necessary and appropriate”, and (2) by striking out in the second sentence “including the selection of its chairman and other officers,” and inserting in lieu thereof “including the selection of officers other than its chairman,”. (c) Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(c) The Council is authorized, by act, to adopt legislation— (1) establishing, for the purpose of assuring uniform procedures relating to the disposition of complaints and other claims involving the Redevelopment Land Agency (or its successor) and other administrative units of the District of Columbia govern-ment, a factfinding board to receive, hear, and act on such complaints and claims arising out of or in connection with administrative and ch her actions of such Agency or units in carrying out their powers and functions; (2) providing that all planning, designing, construction, and supervision of public facilities which are to be contributed to any redevelopment area as the local non-cash grant-in-aid to the project under title I of the Housing Act of 1949, shall, to the extent 68 Stat. 622. 42 USC 1450. practicable, be carried out by an appropriate District of Columbia department or agency on the basis of a contractual or other arrangement with the Redevelopment Land Agency or its successor; (3) providing that any occupied rental property owned by the Agency shall be maintained by such Agency (or its successor) in a safe and sanitary condition; or (4) providing that the Commissioner shall have authority to waive all or any part of any special assessments levied against abutting property owners for the cost, of sewers, streets, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, utilities, and other supporting facilities or project improvements where the costs therefor to the District of Columbia can be applied as a non-cash local grant-in-aid, as defined by the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”. (d) The first sentence of subsection (b) of section 5 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 5–704(b)) is amended to read as follows “Condemnation 84 Stat. 587. proceedings for the acquisition of real property for said purposes shall be conducted in accordance with subchapter II of chapter 13 of title 16 of the District of Columbia Code.”. D.C. Code 16–1311. (e) None of the amendments contained in this section shall be construed to affect the eligibility of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency to continue participation in the small business procurement programs under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act (67 Stat. 547). 72 Stat. 319. 15 USC 637. Post, p. 819. (f) For the purposes of subsection 713(d), employees in the District of Columbia Redevelopment Land Agency shall be deemed to be transferred to the District of Columbia as of the effective date of this title without a break in service. Sec. 202. national capital housing authority (a) The National Capital Housing Authority (herein-after referred to as the “Authority”) established under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act (D.C. Code, secs. 5–103–5–116) 72 Stat. 319. 15 USC 637. Post, p. 819. shall be an agency of the District of Columbia government subject to the organizational and reorganizational powers specified in sections 404(b) and 422(12) of this Act. (b) All functions, powers, and duties of the President under the District of Columbia Alley Dwelling Act shall be vested in and exercised by the Commissioner, All employees, property’ (real and personal), and unexpended balances (available or to be made available) of appropriations, allocations, and all other funds, and assets and liabilities of the Authority are authorized to be transferred to the District of Columbia government. Sec. 203. national capital planning commission and municipal planning (a) Subsections (a) and (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and playground system of the National Capital”, approved June 6, 1924 66 Stat. 782. 76 Stat. 575. 40 USC 71. Federal planning agency. (D.C. Code, Sec. 1–1002), are amended to read as follows: “(a) (1) The National Capital Planning Commission (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commission’) is created as the central Federal planning agency for the Federal Government in the National Capital, and to preserve the important historical and natural features thereof, except with respect to the United States Capitol buildings and grounds as defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 60 Stat. 718; 81 Stat. 275. D.C. Code 9–118, 9–132. D.C. planning agency. 193a, 193m), and to any extension thereof or additions thereto, or to buildings and grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol. “(2) The Commissioner of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Commissioner’) shall be the central planning agency for the government of the District of Columbia (hereinafter referred to as the ‘District’) in the National Capital. The Commissioner shall be responsible for coordinating the planning activities of the District government and for preparing and implementing the District elements of the comprehensive plan for the National Capital, which may include land use elements, urban renewal and redevelopment elements, a multi-year program of public works for the District, and physical, social, economic, transportation, and population elements. The Commissioner’s planning responsibility shall not extend to Federal or international projects and developments in the District, as determined by the Commission, or to the United States Capitol buildings and grounds us defined in sections 1 and 16 of the Act of July 31, 1946 (40 U.S.C. 193a, 193m), or to any extension thereof or additions thereto, or to buildings and grounds under the care of the Architect of the Capitol. In carrying out his responsibility under this section, the Commissioner shall establish procedures for citizen participation in the planning process, and for appropriate meaningful consultation with any State or local government or planning agency in the National Capital region affected by any aspect of a comprehensive plan (including amendments thereto) affecting or relating to the District. “(3) The Commissioner shall submit each District element of the comprehensive plan and any amendment thereto, to the Council for revision or modification, and adoption, by act, following public hearings. Following adoption and prior to implementation, the Council shall submit each such element or amendment to the Commission for review and comment with regard to the impact of such element, or amendment on the interests or functions of the Federal Establishment in the National Capital. “(4) (A) The Commission shall, within sixty days after receipt of such a District element of the comprehensive plan, or amendment thereto, from the Council, certify to the Council whether such element or amendment has a negative impact on the interests or functions of the Federal Establishment in the National Capital. If within such sixty days the Commission takes no action with respect to such element or amendment, such element or amendment shall be deemed to have no such negative impact, and such element or amendment shall be incorporated into the comprehensive plan for the National Capital and snail be implemented. “(B) If the Commission finds, within such sixty days, such negative impact, it shall certify its findings and recommendations with respect to such negative impact to the Council. Upon receipt of the Commission’s findings and recommendations, the Council may-— “(i) reject such findings and recommendations and resubmit such element or amendment, in a modified form, to the Commission for reconsideration; or “(ii) accept such findings and recommendations and modify such element or amendment accordingly. If the Council accepts such findings and recommendations and modifies such element or amendment under clause (ii), the Council shall submit such element or amendment to the Commission for it to determine whether such modification has been made in accordance with the Commission’s findings and recommendations. If, within thirty days after receipt of the modified element or amendment, the Commission takes no action with respect to such element or amendment, it shall be deemed to have been modified in accordance with such findings or recommendations, and shall be incorporated into the comprehensive plan for the National Capital and shall be implemented. If within such thirty days, the Commission again determines such element or amendment to have a negative impact on the functions or interests of the Federal Establishment in the National Capital such element or amendment shall not be implemented. “(C) If the Council rejects the findings and recommendations of the Commission and resubmits a modified element or amendment to it under clause (i), the Commission shall, within sixty days after receipt of such modified element or amendment from the Council, determine whether such modified element or amendment has a negative impact on the interests or functions of the Federal Establishment within the National Capital. If the Commission finds such negative impact it shall certify its findings (in sufficient detail that the Council can understand the “basis of the objection of the Commission) and recommendations to the Council, and such element or amendment shall not be implemented. If the Commission takes no action with respect to such modified element or amendment within such sixty days, such modified element or amendment shall be deemed to have no such negative impact and shall be incorporated into the comprehensive plan and it shall be implemented. Any element or amendment which the Commission has determined to nave a negative impact on the Federal Establishment in the National Capital, and which is submitted again in a modified form not less than one year from the day it was last rejected by the Commission shall be deemed to be a new element or amendment for purposes of the review procedure specified in this section. “(D) The Commission and the Commissioner shall jointly publish, Joint publication of plan. from time to time as appropriate, a comprehensive plan for the National Capital, consisting of the elements of the comprehensive plan for the Federal activities in the National Capital developed by the Commission, and the District elements developed by the Commissioner and the Council in accordance with the provisions of this section. “(E) The Council may grant, upon request made to it by the Commission, Time limitation extension, authority. an extension of any time limitation contained in this section. “(F) The Commission and the Commissioner shall jointly establish procedures for appropriate meaningful continuing consultation throughout the planning process for the National Capital. “(b) The National Capital Planning Commission shall be composed of— “(1) ex officio, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Defense, the Administrator of the General Services Administration, the Commissioner, the Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, and the chairmen of the Committees on the District of Columbia of the Senate and the House of Representatives, or such alternates as each such person may from time to time designate to serve in his stead, and in addition, “(2) five citizens with experience in city or regional planning, three of whom shall be appointed by the President and two of whom shall be appointed by the Commissioner. The citizen mem- bers appointed by the Commissioner shall be bona fide residents of the District of Columbia and of the three appointed by the President at least one shall be a bona fide resident of Virginia and at least one shall be a bona fide resident of Maryland. The terms of office of members appointed by the President shall be for six years, except that of the members first appointed, the President shall designate one to serve two yeai’s and one to serve four years. Members appointed by the Commissioner shall serve for four years. The members first appointed under this section shall assume their office on January 2, 1975. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he shall succeed. The citizen members shall each receive compensation at the rate of $100 for each day such member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission in addition to reimbursement for necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of such duties.”. (b) Subsection (e) of section 2 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1–1002(e) J, is amended by (1) inserting “Federal activities in the” immediately before “National Capital” in clause (1) ; and (2) striking out “and District Governments, and inserting in lieu thereof “government” in clause (2). (c) Section 4 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1–1004), is amended as follows: (1) The first sentence of subsection (a) of such section is amended to read as follows: “The Commission is hereby charged with the duty of preparing and adopting a comprehensive, consistent, and coordinated plan for the National Capital, which plan shall include the Commission’s recommendations or proposals for Federal developments or projects in the environs, and those District elements, or amendments thereto, of the comprehensive plan adopted by the Council and with respect to which the Commission has not determined a negative impact to exist, which elements or amendments shall be incorporated into such comprehensive plan without change.”. (2) The third sentence of subsection (a) of such section is amended by striking out “within the District of Columbia” and “or District”. (3) Subsections (b) and (c) of such section are repealed. (d) Section 5 of such Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code. sec. 1–1005), is amended as follows: (1) Subsection (c) of such section is amended to read as follows: “(c) The provisions of section 16 of the Act approved June 20, 1938 (D.C. Code, sec. 5–428), are extended to include public buildings erected by any agency of the Government of the District of Columbia within the boundaries of the central area of the. District, as such central area may be defined and from time to time redefined by concur-rent action of the Commission and the Council, except that the Commission shall transmit its approval or disapproval respecting any such building within thirty days after the day it was submitted to the Commission.”. (2) The first and second sentences of subsection (e) of such section are amended to read as follows: “It is the intent of this section to obtain cooperation and correlation of effort between the various agencies of the Federal Government which are responsible for public developments and projects, including the acquisition of land. These agencies, therefore, shall look to the Commission and utilize it as the central planning agency for the Federal activities in the National Capital region.”. (e) Section 6 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1–1006) is repealed. (f) Section 7 of such Act (D.C. Code, sec. 1–1007) is amended to read as follows: “Sec. 7. (a) The Commission shall recommend a six-year program Public works projects. of public works projects for the Federal Government which it shall review annually with the agencies concerned. To this end, each Federal agency shall submit to the Commission in the first quarter of each fiscal “year a copy of its advance program of capital improvements within the National Capital and its environs. “(b) Tile Commissioner shall submit to the Commission, by February Multiyear cap-ital improvements plan, submittal to Commission. 1 of each year, a copy of the multiyear capital improvements plan for the. District developed by him under section 444 of the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act. Post, p. 800. The Commission shall have thirty days within which to comment upon such plan but shall have no authority to change or disapprove of such plan.” (g) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 8 of such Act of June 6, 1924 D.C. Code. sec. 1–1008(a)), is amended to read as follows: 66 Stat. 790. 40 USC 71g. “The Commission may make a report and recommendation to the Zoning Commission of the District of Columbia, as provided in section 5 of the Act of March 1, 1920 (D.C. Code, sec. 5–417), on pro-posed 52 Stat. 798. amendments of the zoning regulations and maps as to the relation, conformity, or consistency of such amendments with the comprehensive plan for the National Capital.” Sec. 204. district of columbia manpower administration (a) All functions of the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Secretary”) under section 3 of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the, pro-motion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1933 (29 U.S.C. 49–49k), with respect to the maintenance of a public 48 Stat. 113; 53 Stat. 1409; 68 Stat. 665. employment service for the District, are transferred to the Commissioner. After the effective date of this transfer, the Secretary shall maintain with the District the same relationship with respect to a public employment service in the District, including the financing of such service, as he has with the States (with respect to a public employment service in the States) generally. (b) The Commissioner is authorized and directed to establish and Public employment service. administer a public employment service in the District and to that end he shall have all necessary powers to cooperate with the Secretary in the same manner as a State under the Act of June 6, 1933, specified in subsection .(a). (c) (1) Section 3(a) of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of a national employment system and for cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes”, approved June 6, 1933 (29 .S.C. 49b(a)), is amended by striking out “to maintain a public employment service for the District of Columbia”. (2) Section 3(b) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 49b(b)) is amended by 70 Stat. 910. inserting “the District of Columbia,” immediately after “Guam,”. (d) All functions of the Secretary and of the Director of Apprentice-ship under the Act entitled “An Act to provide for voluntary apprenticeship in the District of Columbia”, approved May 20, 1946 (D.C. Code, secs. 36–121–36–133), are transferred to and shall be exercised 60 Stat. 204; 84 Stat. 583. by the Commissioner. The office of Director of Apprenticeship provided for in section 3 of such Act (D.C. Code. sec. 36–123) is abolished. (e) All functions of the Secretary under chapter 81 of title 5 of the United States Code, with respect to the processing of claims filed by 5 USC 8101. employees of the government of the District for compensation for work injuries, are transferred to and shall be exercised by the Commissioner, effective the day after the day on which the District establishes an independent personnel system or systems. (f) So much of the personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, available, or to be made available in connection with functions transferred to the Commisisoner by the provisions of this section, as the Director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget shall determine, are authorized to be transferred from the Secretary to the Commissioner. (g) Any employee in the competitive service of the United States transferred to the government of the District under the provisions of this section shall retain all the rights, benefits, and privileges pertaining thereto held prior to such transfer. When such an employee vacates the position into which he was transferred, such position shall no longer be a position in such competitive service. (h) The first section of the Act of August 16, 1937 (29 U.S.C. 50 50 Stat. 564. et seq.) (relating to the welfare of apprentices), is amended by “State.” inserting at the end thereof “For the purposes of this Act the term ‘State’ shall include the District of Columbia.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 93–198 effective July 1, 1974, see section 771(b) of Pub. L. 93–198, set out in part as a note under section 49b of this title.

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