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PUBLIC LAW 92-196-DEC. 15, 1971
[85 STAT.
SEC. 703. Along with, and in addition to, all other financial and budgetary information and data which the Commissioner of the District of Columbia is required annually to submit to the Office of Management and Budget by section 214 of the Budget and Account64 Stat. 833. j ^ g Act, 1921 (31 U.S.C. 22), the Commissioner shall prepare and submit to that Office a schedule showing an estimate of all funds which will be available to any agency, department, or instrumentality of the District of Columbia government, during the fiscal year for which such financial and budgetary information and data are submitted, from grants from any Federal agency, department, or instrumentality, or from any private source. Such schedule shall include such additional information as the Office of Management and Budget deems necessary and appropriate to fully indicate the purposes for which such grants will be made, the scope of the programs funded by such grants, and the relationship between the grant funded programs and the programs of such agency, department, or instrumentality funded by money appropriated directly to the District of ^^«f"""t t° Con- Columbia. Such schedule, and such additional information as the gress Office of Management and Budget may include, shall be transmitted to the Congress along with the annual budget request from the District of Columbia government. Rent auotments. gj,^ ^04. Section 16 of the District of Columbia Public Assistance 76 Stat. 917. j^gt of 1962 (D.C. Code, sec. 3-215) is amended by inserting " (a) " immediately after "SEC. 16.", and by adding at the end of the section the following: "(b)(1) If a recipient fails to make his regular rental payment for a period of ten days after the date such payment was due then the lessor of such recipient may send written notice of such failure to the Commissioner. Upon receipt of such notice the Commissioner, after appropriate notice to all interested parties and an opportunity for a hearing, may deduct from the monthly public assistance grant for such recipient for the next month following the notice to the Commissioner an amount equal to the monthly shelter allotment for such recipient. Such deducted amount shall be disposed of by the Commissioner according to the following provisions of this subsection. "(2) If it is determined that there is no legal basis for the recipient's failure to make such regular rental payment then the amount deducted and held by the Commissioner shall be paid to the lessor legally entitled to receive such payment. The Commissioner shall continue to deduct such amount from such grant for each month thereafter for so long as such recipient receives such grant, and to pay such amount directly to the lessor of such recipient. " (3) If it is determined that there is a legal basis for the recipient's failure to make such regular rental payment then the Commissioner shall pay to the lessor legally entitled to receive such payment such part of the amount deducted and held by him as is determined to be owed to the lessor. The Commissioner shall restore to the monthly public assistance grant for such recipient such shelter allotment for each month thereafter for so long as the recipient receives such grant and makes his regular rental payments. "(c)(1) If any lessor, receiving payments from the Commissioner under subsection (b) fails to maintain the premises of the recipient according to all applicable laws and regulations of the District of Columbia, then the recipient may send written notice alleging such failure to the Commissioner. Upon receipt of such notice the Commissioner, after appropriate notice to all interested parties and an opportunity for a hearing, may suspend such payments for such recipient for each month thereafter, and shall hold and dispose of such amount according to the following provisions of this subsection. "(2) If it is determined that there is no basis for such allegation
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