Code of the District of Columbia
Official codified DC law sourced from the DC Council Open Law Library (public domain). 21,163 sections indexed.
- § 42-2706.01Liberal construction of chapter.
- § 42-2706.02Severability.
- § 42-2706.03Allocation of bond issuing authority.
- § 42-2706.04Disposition of assets on dissolution.
- § 42-2706.05Laws or acts referred to in this chapter.
- § 42-2801Definitions.
- § 42-2802.01Housing Production Trust Fund Board.
- § 42-2802.02Maintaining affordability.
- § 42-2802Housing Production Trust Fund established.
- § 42-2803.01Annual report by Mayor.
- § 42-2803Coordination of housing programs for targeted populations; community outreach.
- § 42-2804Rules.
- § 42-2812.01Definitions.
- § 42-2812.02Findings.
- § 42-2812.03Bond authorization for New Community Initiative neighborhoods, including Sursum Corda.
- § 42-2812.04Bond details.
- § 42-2812.05Sale of the bonds.
- § 42-2812.06Payment and security.
- § 42-2812.07Financing and Closing Documents.
- § 42-2812.08Authorized delegation of authority.
- § 42-2812.09Limited liability.
- § 42-2812.10District officials.
- § 42-2812.11Maintenance of documents.
- § 42-2812.12Information reporting.
- § 42-2851.01Short title.
- § 42-2851.02Definitions.
- § 42-2851.03Notice required upon opting out; inspection of property; maintenance of contract.
- § 42-2851.04District’s first right to purchase section 8 properties.
- § 42-2851.05Relocation services by Mayor.
- § 42-2851.06Section 8 assistance considered income for non-discrimination and minimum income purposes; requirement to accept section 8 vouchers.
- § 42-2851.07Penalties for noncompliance.
- § 42-2851.08Determination of qualified areas.
- § 42-2853.01Definitions.
- § 42-2853.02Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Fund.
- § 42-2855.01Mayor’s Comprehensive Housing Task Force Fund established.
- § 42-2857.01Department of Housing and Community Development Unified Fund.
- § 42-2901Definitions.
- § 42-2902Rental assistance.
- § 42-2903Community police presence.
- § 42-3001Disability of minority removed; investments by building, building and loan, and savings and loan associations.
- § 42-3002Direct-reduction loans authorized; obligor to be member of lending association.
- § 42-301Present or future and vested or contingent interests conveyed by deed or will.
- § 42-302Perpetuities — Charitable uses excepted.
- § 42-303Perpetuities—Chattels real.
- § 42-304Perpetuities—Effect upon estates created by deed or will.
- § 42-305Title conveyable by anyone claiming such.
- § 42-306Deed or will necessary for more than one-year term or for limitation upon such.
- § 42-307Perpetuities; pensions and employee trusts excepted.
- § 42-3101Definitions.
- § 42-3102.01Authority to obtain law enforcement records.
- § 42-3102Action to abate.
- § 42-3103Complaint.
- § 42-3104Preliminary injunction.
- § 42-3105Protection of witnesses.
- § 42-3106Conviction not required.
- § 42-3107Security.
- § 42-3108Burden of proof.
- § 42-3109Evidence of reputation.
- § 42-3110Relief.
- § 42-3111.01Drug-, Firearm-, or Prostitution-Related Nuisance Abatement Fund.
- § 42-3111Damages.
- § 42-3112Violation of injunction or abatement order.
- § 42-3113Interpretation.
- § 42-3114Availability of other remedies.
- § 42-3131.01Mayor may correct conditions violative of law; assessment of cost; lien on property; fund to pay costs; summary corrective action of life-or-health threatening condition.
- § 42-3131.02Inspection of buildings for violative conditions; interference with inspection.
- § 42-3131.03Notice requiring correction of unlawful conditions; service.
- § 42-3131.04[Reserved].
- § 42-3131.05Definitions.
- § 42-3131.05aNotice by mail.
- § 42-3131.06Registration of vacant buildings.
- § 42-3131.07Registration and renewal procedure.
- § 42-3131.08Notice of denial or revocation of registration.
- § 42-3131.09Fees.
- § 42-3131.10Penalties for noncompliance.
- § 42-3131.11Notice of vacancy designation and right to appeal.
- § 42-3131.12Vacant building maintenance standard.
- § 42-3131.13Public identification of owner.
- § 42-3131.14Collection.
- § 42-3131.15Administrative review and appeal.
- § 42-3131.16Transmission of list by Mayor.
- § 42-3131.17Transmission of list of blighted vacant buildings by Mayor.
- § 42-3141.01Definitions.
- § 42-3141.02Nuisance.
- § 42-3141.03Notice of graffiti nuisance and reply.
- § 42-3141.04Deemed authorization to abate.
- § 42-3141.05Notice of violation; service of notice.
- § 42-3141.06Answer and expedited hearing.
- § 42-3141.07Payment of abatement costs and penalties.
- § 42-3141.08Graffiti Abatement Fund.
- § 42-3141.09Collection against an owner.
- § 42-3141.10Graffiti abatement materials.
- § 42-3141.11Rules.
- § 42-3151.01Definitions
- § 42-3151.02Petition for immediate taking
- § 42-3151.03Deposit in court of fair market value
- § 42-3151.04Judgment for excess of public charges over property value
- § 42-3151.05Title holder
- § 42-3151.06Assistance to certain displaced persons
- § 42-3151.07Inability to qualify for hardship petition
- § 42-3151.08Effect on other authority
- § 42-3151.09Condemnation and acquisition of open, hazardous residential buildings or other structures
- § 42-3151.10Notice; demolition, repair, or enclosure
- § 42-3151.11Designation of development or redevelopment plan for property acquired
- § 42-3151.12Limitation on actions against the District of Columbia
- § 42-3151.13Report to the Council required
- § 42-3171.01Definitions.
- § 42-3171.02Acquisition and redevelopment of abandoned or deteriorated property.
- § 42-3171.03Disposal of abandoned or deteriorated property.
- § 42-3171.04Assistance to displaced persons.
- § 42-3173.01Definitions.
- § 42-3173.02Authority of the Mayor to demolish or enclose deteriorated structures.
- § 42-3173.03Redevelopment feasibility analysis.
- § 42-3173.04Designation of potential historic structure.
- § 42-3173.05Initial determination of deteriorated structure.
- § 42-3173.06Action by interested parties.
- § 42-3173.07Final determination of deteriorated structure.
- § 42-3173.08Duty of Mayor to demolish or enclose deteriorated structure.
- § 42-3173.09Judicial review of final determination.
- § 42-3173.10Recovery of costs by the District of Columbia.
- § 42-3173.11Use of funds; deposit of funds.
- § 42-3173.12Nature of remedies.
- § 42-3201When notice to quit not necessary.
- § 42-3202Notices to quit.
- § 42-3203Tenancy at will.
- § 42-3204Tenancy by sufferance.
- § 42-3205Notice not to be recalled.
- § 42-3206Service of notice to quit.
- § 42-3207Refusal to surrender possession; double rent.
- § 42-3208Parties may agree to alternate notice provisions; waiver.
- § 42-3209Recovery of real and personal property leased together.
- § 42-3210Action in ejectment — When proper.
- § 42-3211Action in ejectment — Claims for arrears of rent, double rent, and waste; jurisdiction of court; money judgment.
- § 42-3212Consolidation of actions for arrears of rent and possession.
- § 42-3213Landlord’s lien for rent — Time of existence.
- § 42-3214Landlord’s lien for rent — How enforced.
- § 42-3215Landlord’s lien for rent — When attachment issuable; executing officer’s power of entry.
- § 42-3216Landlord’s lien for rent — Property subject to lien not to be executed on by another without payment of rent due; when rent in arrears exceeds 3 months.
- § 42-3217Distress not unlawful and party making it not trespasser ab initio because of irregularity; special damages recoverable; costs; tender of amends defeats recovery.
- § 42-3218Fraudulent removal, conveyance, or concealment of property to defeat lien subjects guilty party to forfeiture of double value of such property.
- § 42-3219Representatives of life tenant may recover proportion of rent from under-tenant.
- § 42-3220Action in debt may be brought for rent in arrears under lease or demise for life.
- § 42-3221Action by landlord for use and occupation of property where no deed; parol agreement as evidence of quantum of damages.
- § 42-3222Lease under control of a person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order.
- § 42-3223Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid.
- § 42-3224Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Money received for renewal paid to guardian for benefit of person with a disability; characterization of money at death of person with a disability.
- § 42-3225Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order.
- § 42-3226Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Costs of renewal chargeable to estate of infant or person with a disability or deemed charge upon leasehold.
- § 42-3227Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — New leases to be of same nature and subject to same liabilities as surrendered leases.
- § 42-3228Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Renewed lease valid.
- § 42-3229Surrender for new lease good without surrender of underleases; underleases continue unaffected; all rights and remedies to continue.
- § 42-3230Grant or assignment of reversion of premises or by lessee not to affect rights or duties under lease.
- § 42-3231Grants of remainders, reversions, and rents good without attornment; payment of rent to grantor without notice valid.
- § 42-3232Fraudulent attornment void; possession not changed by such attornment; limitation on scope of provisions.
- § 42-3251Definitions.
- § 42-3252Testing.
- § 42-3253Violations.
- § 42-3254Rules and procedures.
- § 42-3255Fines and penalties.
- § 42-3301Definitions.
- § 42-3302Opportunity for tenants to receive service in own names; payments made by tenants.
- § 42-3303Appointment of receiver; termination.
- § 42-3304Penalties.
- § 42-3305Exclusiveness of remedy.
- § 42-3306Findings required prior to termination of service.
- § 42-3307Regulations.
- § 42-3401.01Findings.
- § 42-3401.02Purposes.
- § 42-3401.03Definitions.
- § 42-3401.04Applicability of Rental Housing Act of 1985.
- § 42-3402.01Short title.
- § 42-3402.02Conversions.
- § 42-3402.03Tenant election.
- § 42-3402.04Conversion fee.
- § 42-3402.05Certification fee.
- § 42-3402.05aApplication fees.
- § 42-3402.06Cooperative conversion.
- § 42-3402.07[Reserved].
- § 42-3402.08Elderly or disabled tenancy.
- § 42-3402.09Property tax abatement.
- § 42-3402.10Exceptions to coverage of subchapter; expiration provisions.
- § 42-3402.11Retroactive conversion.
- § 42-3403.01Short title.
- § 42-3403.02Relocation payment.
- § 42-3403.03Relocation services.
- § 42-3403.04Housing assistance payments.
- § 42-3403.05Payments not subject to District tax.
- § 42-3403.06Tenant rights.
- § 42-3403.07Housing Assistance Fund.
- § 42-3403.08Information and technical assistance.
- § 42-3403.09Expiration provisions.
- § 42-3404.01Short title.
- § 42-3404.02Tenant opportunity to purchase; “sale” defined.
- § 42-3404.02aRegistration of a tenant organization.
- § 42-3404.03Offer of sale.
- § 42-3404.04Third party rights.
- § 42-3404.05Contract negotiation.
- § 42-3404.06Exercise or assignment of rights.
- § 42-3404.07Waiver of rights.
- § 42-3404.08Right of first refusal.
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