79TH GONG., 2D SESS.-CH. 736-AUG. 2 , 1946 notice of the time and place of which shall be given by mail sent at least ten days prior to the hearing to the then owners of the real properties in the project area and of the realproperties immediately adjoining or across the street from the project area. The District 'Commissioners may refer back to the Planning Commission any project area redevelopment plan, project area boundaries, or modifica- tion submitted to it, together with their recommendation for changes in such plan, boundaries, or modification, and: if such recommended changes be adopted by the Planning Commission and be in turn approved by the District Commissioners, the plan, boundaries, or modification as thus changed shall be and become the approved plan, boundaries, or modification. IMITrATION UPON TAX EXEMPTION SEC. 13. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to author- ize or require the exemption of any real property from taxation. No real property acquired by the Agency under this Act shall be exempt from taxation by reason of such acquisition or by reason of the holding thereof by the Agency; and, in the case of any piece of real property, which, under the project area redevelopment plan, is designated to be used for Federal or District or other tax-exempt uses, the exemption of such real property from taxation granted by or in the Act entitled "An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia (Public Law 846, Seventy- seventh Congress)", or other statute, shall not commence until title thereto shall have been transferred from the Agency to the United States or the District of Columbia or to a Federal or District public agency as provided in section 7 of this Act or sold or leased to a public redevelopment company or other public corporation or tax-exempt agency and may thereby become exempt from taxation by reason of the provisions of statutes other than this present Act; the intention being that ownership or operation by the Agency in the exercise of its power under this present Act shall not, in and of itself, produce tax exemption. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT Szc. 14 . The Agency is hereby authorized and empowered- (a) to procure services or make any purchase without regard to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, pro- vided the aggregate amount involved is not more than $100; (b) to secure planning, land economics and valuation services, and other expert services related to the acquisition and disposi- tion of real property, by contract or otherwise, at rates of pay or fees not to exceed those usual for similar services elsewhere, and without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, and to sec- tion 3709 of Revised Statutes, as amended: Provided, That this exemption shall not apply to persons employed by the Agency on a permanent basis; (c) to appoint and employ such officers and employees as it may find necessary for the proper performance of its duties under this Act and to prescribe their authorities, duties, responsi- bilities, and tenures and fix their compensations; such appoint- ments and employments to be made m conformance with the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; and (d) to make such expenditures, subject to audit under the general law, for the acquisition and maintenance of adequate vehicles, furnishings equipment, supplies, books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspapers, printing and binding, and for 56 Stat. 1089. D. 0 . Code, Supp. V, §§ 47-801a to 47- 801f. Ante, p. 796. Pod,p. 80. 42 Stat. 1488 . 5U.8.C.§661- 674; Supp. V, I 661 d k/. Ante, pp. 216, 219; pod, p. 809. Supra. 799 60 STAT.]
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