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[88 STAT. 481]
PUBLIC LAW 93-000—MMMM. DD, 1975
[88 STAT. 481]

88 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 93-379-AUG. 21, 1974

481

(5) One member shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate. (6) Three members shall be appointed by the Commissioner of the District of Columbia, one of whom shall be a nonlawyer. and one of M'hom shall be a member of the law faculty of a law school in the District of Columbia. (7) One member shall be appointed by the Chairman of the District of Columbia Council. (8) Two members shall be appointed by the Joint Committee on Judicial x\dministration in the District of Columbia. (9) One member shall be appointed by the District of Columbia Corporation Counsel. (10) Two members shall be appointed by the Board of (xovernors of the District of Columbia unified bar. (b) No person may be appointed as a member of the Commission citizenship reunless he is a citizen of the United States. At least eight persons "•^"^" • appointed to the Commission shall be bona fide residents of the District of Columbia who have maintained an actual place of abode in the District of Columbia for at least the ninety days immediately prior to their appointments as such members. The remaining persons appointed as members of the Commission shall be residents of the National Capital Region, as defined in the Act of June 6, 1924 (D.C. Code, sec. 1-1001 et seq.) (establishing the National Capital Planning 4oUSC 7i. Commission), who have maintained an actual place of abode in the National Capital Region for at least ninety days immediately prior to their appointments as such members. (c) Members of the Commission shall serve for four-year terms and '^^'•'"• may be reappointed. (d) The Chairman of the Commission shall be selected by the members of the Commission from among their number. (e) Each appointment of members of the Commission shall be made. Non-partisan without regard to political party affiliation, on the basis of the ability ^P^°'" ""^^ • of that person to perform his duties with the Commission. (f) Appointments made to fill vacancies on the Commission shall be made in the same manner, and on the same basis, as original appointments to the Commission are made. A member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve until the expiration of the term of the member whose vacancy he was appointed to fill. (g) Members and the Chairman of the Commission shall be entitled compensation. to receive $100 for each day (including traveltime) during which they are engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission, except no member or Chairman shall receive more than $5,000 for the i^erformance of such duties during any twelve-month period. (h) While away from their homes or regular places of business in ^^^""^^^ expenses. the performance of the duties of the Commission, members, including the Chairman, of the Commission shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in the Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703(b) of title 5 of the United States Code.