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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1973k. Termination of listing procedures; basis for termination; survey or census by Director of the Census
Listing procedures shall be terminated in any political
subdivision of any State (a) with respect to examiners appointed
pursuant to clause (b) of section 1973d of this title whenever the
Attorney General notifies the Director of the Office of Personnel
Management, or whenever the District Court for the District of
Columbia determines in an action for declaratory judgment brought
by any political subdivision with respect to which the Director of
the Census has determined that more than 50 per centum of the
nonwhite persons of voting age residing therein are registered to
vote, (1) that all persons listed by an examiner for such
subdivision have been placed on the appropriate voting registration
roll, and (2) that there is no longer reasonable cause to believe
that persons will be deprived of or denied the right to vote on
account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set
forth in section 1973b(f)(2) of this title in such subdivision, and
(b), with respect to examiners appointed pursuant to section
1973a(a) of this title, upon order of the authorizing court. A
political subdivision may petition the Attorney General for the
termination of listing procedures under clause (a) of this section,
and may petition the Attorney General to request the Director of
the Census to take such survey or census as may be appropriate for
the making of the determination provided for in this section. The
District Court for the District of Columbia shall have jurisdiction
to require such survey or census to be made by the Director of the
Census and it shall require him to do so if it deems the Attorney
General's refusal to request such survey or census to be arbitrary
or unreasonable.
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