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§ 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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