5978903 Resolution 21-453, Business Improvement Districts Sunset Repeal Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016

A RESOLUTION

                                                        

21-453

 

IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

April 5, 2016        

 

               

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Business Improvement Districts Act of 1996 to repeal the sunset provision.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Business Improvement Districts Sunset Repeal Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2016”.

 

Sec. 2. (a) The Business Improvement Districts Act of 1996, effective May 29, 1996 (D.C. Law 11-134; D.C. Official Code § 2-1215.01 et seq.) (“BID act”), was enacted with a sunset provision that provided that the act would expire 20 years from the effective date.

(b) Without timely action, the BID act shall expire in May. Emergency legislation is necessary to repeal the undesired expiration of the BID act.

 

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Business Improvement Districts Sunset Repeal Emergency Amendment Act of 2016 be adopted after a single reading.

 

Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.