Code of the District of Columbia
Official codified DC law sourced from the DC Council Open Law Library (public domain). 21,163 sections indexed.
- § 42-401Effective date of deeds; exception.
- § 42-4011Abolition of Rental Accommodation Commission
- § 42-4012Establishment of Rental Housing Commission; qualifications; compensation; removal
- § 42-4013Duties of Rental Housing Commission
- § 42-4014Rental Accommodations and Conversion Division
- § 42-4015Duties of the Rent Administrator
- § 42-4016Registration and coverage
- § 42-4017Rent ceiling
- § 42-4018Adjustments in rent ceiling
- § 42-4019Increases above base rent
- § 42-402Defective grants recorded before April 27, 1994.
- § 42-4020Rent ceiling upon termination of exemption and for newly covered rental units
- § 42-4021Petitions for capital improvements
- § 42-4022Services and facilities
- § 42-4023Hardship petition
- § 42-4024Vacant accommodation
- § 42-4025Substantial rehabilitation
- § 42-4026Voluntary agreement
- § 42-4027Adjustment procedure
- § 42-4028Judicial review
- § 42-4029Remedy
- § 42-403Defective grants recorded on or after April 27, 1994.
- § 42-4030Security deposit
- § 42-404Failures in formal requisites of an instrument.
- § 42-4041Definitions
- § 42-4042Establishment of Tenant Assistance Program; designation of monies
- § 42-4043Authorization to enter into contracts for tenant assistance payments; determination of eligibility; procedure upon determination of eligibility
- § 42-4044Tenant assistance payments
- § 42-4045Approval and maintenance of rental units; obligations of families
- § 42-4046Continued eligibility
- § 42-4047Termination of eligibility
- § 42-4048Tax exemption
- § 42-405Notice of address and name change.
- § 42-4051Annual rental unit fee.
- § 42-406First recorded deed preferred.
- § 42-4061Evictions
- § 42-4062Retaliatory action
- § 42-4063Conciliation and arbitration service
- § 42-4064Arbitration
- § 42-4065Prohibition of discrimination against elderly tenants or families with children
- § 42-407Instrument not properly executed or acknowledged not recordable.
- § 42-4071Conversion
- § 42-4072Demolition
- § 42-408Record of conveyance by infant or infant trustee as evidence.
- § 42-4081Notice of right to assistance
- § 42-4082Eligibility assistance
- § 42-4083Payments
- § 42-4084Relocation advisory services
- § 42-4085Tenant hot line
- § 42-409Bonds and contracts relating to land recordable.
- § 42-4091Penalties.
- § 42-4092Attorney's fees.
- § 42-4093Severability.
- § 42-4094Supersedure.
- § 42-4095Service.
- § 42-4096Effective date.
- § 42-4097Termination.
- § 42-410Map or plat of subdivisions not recordable.
- § 42-501Recognized estates.
- § 42-502Fee simple estates — Estates tail abolished.
- § 42-503Fee simple estates — Absolute or qualified.
- § 42-504Freeholds; chattels real; chattel interests; conditions precedent or subsequent.
- § 42-505Estates pur autre vie; when deemed freehold and when chattel real.
- § 42-506Estates classified; possession; expectancy.
- § 42-507Estate in possession.
- § 42-508Estate in expectancy.
- § 42-509Reversions.
- § 42-510Future estates — Commencement.
- § 42-511Future estates — Remainder and conditional limitation.
- § 42-512Future estates — Vested and contingent.
- § 42-513Future estates — Alternative.
- § 42-514Expectant estates — No defeat or bar unless provided for at creation.
- § 42-515Expectant estates — Descendible, devisable, and alienable.
- § 42-516Tenancies in common, tenancies by the entireties, and joint tenancies.
- § 42-517Coparcenary estates abolished.
- § 42-518Estates for years.
- § 42-519Estates from year to year.
- § 42-520Estates by sufferance.
- § 42-521Estates from month to month or from quarter to quarter.
- § 42-522Estates at will; termination; creation.
- § 42-523Provisions applicable to personal property.
- § 42-601Deed, mortgage, and lease forms.
- § 42-602Deeds of corporations; formal requisites; acknowledgment.
- § 42-603“Covenant” binds covenantor, covenantee, and their privies.
- § 42-604General warranty.
- § 42-605Special warranty.
- § 42-606Covenant of quiet enjoyment.
- § 42-607Covenant against having encumbered land.
- § 42-608Covenant for further assurances; contracts to contain soil characteristics information.
- § 42-609Warranties void as to heirs; life tenants and certain parties not in possession.
- § 42-701Words of inheritance unnecessary.
- § 42-702“Grant” or “bargain and sell” passes whole estate and interest.
- § 42-703Remainder to heirs of life tenant; rule in Shelley’s case abolished.
- § 42-704Posthumous children.
- § 42-705Construction of words importing want or failure of issue.
- § 42-801Execution, acknowledgment, and recordation in same manner as deeds.
- § 42-802Duty of Recorder.
- § 42-803Estate of mortgagee or trustee; conveyance thereof.
- § 42-804Survival of mortgagee’s or trustee’s title.
- § 42-805While action pending, money due payable to mortgagee or court; effect thereof.
- § 42-806Decree or order without hearing where defendant files request and plaintiff files admission.
- § 42-807Limitations upon right of redemption in §§ 42-805 and 42-806.
- § 42-808Conveyance or assurance by infant following court order.
- § 42-809Conveyance or assurance by infant trustee or mortgagee under court order.
- § 42-810Mortgagee may redeem prior mortgage; prior mortgage may not bar.
- § 42-811Appointment of trustee in event of death of mortgagee or trustee; procedure; summary decree.
- § 42-812Equity practice followed where answer sets up defense against foreclosure.
- § 42-813Replacement of deceased, appointed trustee.
- § 42-814Petition for new trustee; causes; procedure; written agreement of parties.
- § 42-815.01Right to cure residential mortgage foreclosure default.
- § 42-815.02Foreclosure mediation.
- § 42-815.03Establishment of Foreclosure Mediation Fund.
- § 42-815.04Construction.
- § 42-815Application to court to fix terms and determine notice of sale; notice under power of sale provision.
- § 42-816Sale of property — Deficiency judgments; limitations thereon; relief in suit to enforce vendor’s lien.
- § 42-817Sale of property — Amount creditor to pay if purchaser.
- § 42-818.01Tracking addresses.
- § 42-818.02Procedures for release of deed of trust.
- § 42-818Commission to mortgagee or trustee; rates; when advertised sale not held.
- § 42-819Petition for deed of release after death of mortgagee or trustee; procedure; summary determination.
- § 42-820Conveyance by and for individuals with mental disabilities following court order.
- § 42-831.01Definitions.
- § 42-832.01General.
- § 42-832.02Creation; statement of monetary value; other obligations secured.
- § 42-832.03Lien instrument creates security interest only; negative covenant does not create a lien instrument.
- § 42-832.04Parties to a lien instrument and addresses.
- § 42-832.05Information form required in every deed of trust or mortgage encumbering residential real property.
- § 42-832.06Execution, acknowledgment and recordation of a lien instrument in the same manner as a deed.
- § 42-832.07Duty of Recorder of Deeds.
- § 42-832.08Assignment, transfer, enforcement and performance of deed of trust or mortgage.
- § 42-832.09Assignment or transfer of real property encumbered by lien instrument and liability of transferor and transferee to noteowner and each other.
- § 42-832.10Obligation to provide name and address of noteowner, interested persons in note, amounts due and status of lien instrument.
- § 42-832.11Decisions by multiple noteowners.
- § 42-832.12Independent trustee or assignee for foreclosure required for noteowner, beneficiary, mortgagee, or secured party to bid at a power of sale foreclosure.
- § 42-832.13Right to determine reasonable foreclosure sale terms and conditions if deed of trust or mortgage does not state them.
- § 42-832.14Deed-in-lieu of foreclosure or deed to noteowner’s designee; no effect on senior or subordinate interests.
- § 42-832.15Redemption from noteowner by performance or tender.
- § 42-832.16Prepayment of note secured by lien instrument.
- § 42-832.17Release of lien instrument after time period when no enforcement.
- § 42-832.18Authorized forms of release of lien instrument.
- § 42-832.19Noteowner’s obligation to provide release of lien instrument.
- § 42-832.20Effective date of noteowner’s receipt of payments.
- § 42-832.21When deed absolute, conditional sale, or contract for a deed will be considered a lien instrument.
- § 42-832.22Priority: effect of lien instrument priority on foreclosure; effect of lien instrument priority on unrecorded leases.
- § 42-832.23Priority: purchase money lien instruments.
- § 42-832.24Priority: replacement and modification of senior lien instruments; effect on intervening interests.
- § 42-832.25Priority: effect of priority on the disposition of foreclosure surplus.
- § 42-832.26Priority: lien on after-acquired real property.
- § 42-832.27Priority: subrogation.
- § 42-832.28Priority: subordination.
- § 42-832.29Priority: foreclosure of wrap-around lien instruments.
- § 42-832.30Future advances: general.
- § 42-832.31Future advances: expenditures for the protection of the real property encumbered by a lien instrument.
- § 42-832.32Future advances: lien instruments securing future advances for improvements to residential real property.
- § 42-832.33Simultaneous foreclosure of lien instrument and ancillary lien instrument.
- § 42-832.34Mortgaging rents.
- § 42-833.01Qualification of trustee or assignee for foreclosure.
- § 42-833.02Trustee or assignee for foreclosure holds security interest without automatic right of possession; survival of trustee’s or assignee’s for foreclosure security interest.
- § 42-833.03Noteowner’s or beneficiary’s or mortgagee’s right to substitute, add or remove trustees or assignees for foreclosure.
- § 42-833.04Trustee’s or assignee’s for foreclosure right to resign.
- § 42-833.05Trustee or assignee for foreclosure discretionary and ministerial acts.
- § 42-833.06Petition for certificate of satisfaction after death or unavailability or refusal to act of trustee or assignee for foreclosure; procedure; summary determination.
- § 42-833.07Standard of trustee’s or assignee’s for foreclosure conduct; indemnification of Trustee and assignee for foreclosure; Trustee or assignee for foreclosure bond requirements.
- § 42-833.08Trustee or assignee for foreclosure determines foreclosure process consistent with noteowner’s, beneficiary’s, mortgagee’s, or secured party’s written instructions.
- § 42-833.09Trustee or assignee for foreclosure commission and compensation for foreclosure.
- § 42-834.01Sending of notices; notice of default required.
- § 42-834.02Notice of default required; no effect on late fees.
- § 42-834.03Minimum grace period for borrower and owner under residential lien instrument.
- § 42-834.04Notice of acceleration required; right of reinstatement until notice of acceleration sent or received; notice of commencement of foreclosure satisfies notice of acceleration.
- § 42-834.05Borrower’s and owner’s right to cure default and reinstate obligation secured by residential lien instrument prior to foreclosure sale auction 3 times in any 12 month period.
- § 42-834.06Certain subordinate interest holder’s right to cure and reinstate note secured by residential lien instrument prior to foreclosure sale auction once in any 12 month period.
- § 42-834.07Right to redeem after acceleration.
- § 42-835.01Accrual of right to foreclose.
- § 42-835.02Notice of commencement of foreclosure.
- § 42-835.03Minimum time period before foreclosure sale auction on residential lien instrument securing a home loan.
- § 42-835.04Noteowner cannot produce original note; form of lost note affidavit and indemnification to borrower, owner and mayor.
- § 42-835.05Noteowner’s remedies on the note and the lien instrument; credit on note or other obligation for foreclosed real property; limitation on time to seek deficiency judgment.
- § 42-835.06No waiver of protection laws.
- § 42-835.07Omitted parties; no right to object for persons who were properly sent notice.
- § 42-835.08Appointment of a receiver; effect on existing leases; priorities between competing receivers.
- § 42-835.09Waste.
- § 42-835.10Beneficiary’s, trustee’s, mortgagee’s, or assignee’s for foreclosure right to funds paid under casualty insurance or taking in eminent domain.
- § 42-835.11Effect of foreclosure on beneficiary’s, trustee’s, mortgagee’s, or assignee’s for foreclosure right to insurance and eminent domain proceeds.
- § 42-835.12Acquisition of foreclosure title by the owner or other subordinate interest holder.
- § 42-835.13Availability of documents for inspection in the District of Columbia.
- § 42-836.01Prohibited acts and practices.
- § 42-836.02Violations and remedies.
- § 42-836.03Foreclosure against home borrowers subjected to violations of 42-836.01.
- § 42-836.04Other prohibitions and remedies.
- § 42-837.01Request for judicial foreclosure of residential lien instrument
- § 42-837.02Written demand for judicial foreclosure.
- § 42-837.03Required conditions during challenge.
- § 42-837.04Failure to continuously satisfy the required conditions during challenge.
- § 42-837.05Noteowner’s, beneficiary’s, mortgagee’s, and secured party’s options in response to request for judicial foreclosure.
- § 42-837.06Failure of trustee or assignee for foreclosure to pursue expedited hearing.
- § 42-837.07Diligent pursuit of expedited hearing.
- § 42-838.01Request for expedited hearing.
- § 42-838.02Determination at expedited hearing.
- § 42-839.01Commencement of judicial foreclosure.
- § 42-839.02Determinations by the court.
This is legal information, not legal advice. Laws vary by jurisdiction and change frequently. Always verify current law with official sources and consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for advice on your specific situation.