Title 9 — Transportation Systems.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall have entire control of, and the Council of the District of Columbia shall make all regulations which it shall deem necessary for keeping in repair, the streets, avenues, alleys, and sewers of the City, and all other works which may be i…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall have the care and charge of, and the exclusive jurisdiction over, all the public roads and bridges, except such as belong to and are under the care of the United States, and except such as may be otherwise specially provided for by Cong…

All public roads within said District, outside the limits of Washington and Georgetown, which were duly laid out or declared and recorded as such on June 22, 1874, are public highways.

Repealed Repealed.

The owner or owners of land over or upon which any highway or reservation shall be projected upon any map filed under §§ 9-103.01 to 9-103.05 shall have the free right to the use and enjoyment of the same for building or any other lawful purpose, and the free right to transfer th…

(a) At least 30 days prior to the submissions by the Mayor of the District of Columbia to the National Capital Planning Commission and to the Council of the District of Columbia for approvals of a proposed modification to the permanent system of highways, the Mayor shall provide …

All the powers given to the Mayor and Council of the District of Columbia and others under §§ 9-103.01 to 9-103.05 shall apply to and be capable of being exercised upon and through Beatty and Hawkins’s Addition to Georgetown, where it may be necessary to connect streets in parts …

Upon the abandonment of any street, avenue, road, or highway, or part thereof, under the provisions of §§ 9-103.01 to 9-103.05, the title to the land contained in such abandoned portion shall revert to the owners of the land abutting thereon.

Where any proposed street of the permanent system of highways affects any lot or block of a subdivision recorded in the Office of the Surveyor of the District of Columbia, the Mayor of the District of Columbia may, in his discretion, allow the resubdivision of such lot or block i…

No street, avenue, or public thoroughfare in the neighborhood of the buildings erected upon the United States Naval Observatory grounds, Georgetown Heights, District of Columbia, shall extend within the area of a circle described with a radius of 1,000 feet from the center of the…

Massachusetts Avenue, as laid down in conformity with § 9-101.10 upon the maps of the engineer department of the District of Columbia, through the grounds of the United States Naval Observatory is declared to be a public street in all respects as the other public streets of the D…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, whenever in his judgment the public interests require it, to prepare a new highway plan for any portion of the District of Columbia, and submit the same for approval, after public hearing, to the National Capital Plannin…

No subdivision of land in the District of Columbia without the limits of the City of Washington shall be recorded in the Office of the Surveyor or in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds unless the same shall have been first approved by the Mayor of the District of Columbia and be…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to use for street purposes 1,651 square feet of a tract of land known as parcel 17/93, 708 square feet of a tract of land known as parcel 18/52, and 380 square feet of a tract of land known as parcel 18/23, all for the widening …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, upon the straightening and shortening of Michigan Avenue as provided by §§ 9-101.15 and 9-105.01 to 9-105.04, to do any and all acts which may be necessary to give the Washington Railway and Electric Company such easemen…

A program of construction projects to meet immediate capital needs for highways in the District is hereby authorized.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to use the land in squares 354 and 355 in the District of Columbia, and the water frontage on the Washington Channel of the Potomac River lying south of Maine Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets, including the buildings …

(a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to acquire by purchase, donation, condemnation or otherwise, real property for transfer to the Secretary of the Interior in exchange or as replacement for park, parkway, and playground lands transferred to the District of Co…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and directed to prepare a plan for the extension of a permanent system of highways over all that portion of said District not included within the limits of the Cities of Washington and Georgetown. Said system shall be mad…

The said plans shall be prepared from time to time in sections, each of which shall cover such an area as the Mayor of the District of Columbia may deem advisable to include therein, and it shall be the duty of the Mayor in preparing such plan by sections, as far as may be practi…

When any such map shall have been recorded as aforesaid in the Office of the Surveyor of the District it shall be lawful for the owner of any land included within such map to adopt the subdivision thereby made by a reference thereto and to this section in any deed or will which h…

For the purpose of making surveys for such plans and maps the Mayor of the District of Columbia and his agents and employees necessarily engaged in making such surveys are authorized to enter upon any lands through or on which any projected highway or reservation may run or lie.

Repealed Repealed.

None of the provisions of §§ 9-103.01 to 9-103.05 shall apply to any segment of the Interstate System within the District of Columbia.

In order to relocate the line of Michigan Avenue from Franklin Street as laid down on the plan of the permanent system of highways for the District of Columbia to Lincoln Road, bordering the southeast corner of the grounds of the United States Soldiers’ Home, and to straighten an…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to use for street purposes all that part of the United States Soldiers’ Home grounds designated as Parcel A, containing 57,613 square feet, and Parcel B containing 11,870 square feet, as shown on map filed in the Office of the S…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to close, vacate, and abandon the portion of Michigan Avenue known and designated as Parcel D, containing 69,336 square feet, and Parcel H, containing 7,279 square feet, as shown on map filed in the Office of the Surveyor of the…

The Surveyor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to prepare the necessary plat or plats showing all parcels of land to be transferred in accordance with the provisions of §§ 9-101.15 and 9-105.01 to 9-105.04, with a certificate affixed thereon to be signed by the par…

For the purpose of enabling the District of Columbia to have its federal-aid highway projects approved under § 106 or 117 of Title 23, United States Code, the Mayor of the District of Columbia may, in connection with the acquisition of real property in the District of Columbia fo…

(a) Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, whenever the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall determine that the construction or modification of a project, on or a part of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways within the District of Columbia und…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to enter into contracts in connection with projects undertaken as federal-aid highway projects under the provisions of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944 in such amounts as shall be approved by the Federal Highway Administratio…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to construct grade crossing elimination and other wholly District construction projects or those authorized under § 8 of the Act of June 16, 1936 (49 Stat. 1521), and § 1(b) of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1938, in accordance …

For the purposes of this part, the term: (1) “Authorized Signatory” means the Chief Financial Officer, the District of Columbia Treasurer, or any deputy mayor of the executive office of the Mayor to whom the Mayor has delegated any of the Mayor’s functions under this part pursuan…

(a) Pursuant to § 1-204.90, the Council approves and authorizes the issuance of one or more series of GARVEE Bonds to fund the Qualified Transportation Project Costs of the Qualified Transportation Project; provided that: (1) The aggregate principal amount of GARVEE Bonds that ma…

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund, separate and apart from the General Fund of the District of Columbia, the Transportation Infrastructure Improvement Fund. The Chief Financial Officer shall deposit into the Transportation Infrastructure Improvement Fund the GARVEE Re…

(a) Except as may be otherwise provided in this part, the Debt Service on the GARVEE Bonds, and the payment of ongoing administrative expenses related to the GARVEE Bond financing, shall be payable solely from proceeds received from the sale of the GARVEE Bonds, income realized f…

(a) The Mayor is authorized to take any action reasonably necessary or appropriate in accordance with this part in connection with the preparation, execution, issuance, sale, delivery, security for, and payment of the GARVEE Bonds of each series, including, but not limited to, de…

(a) The GARVEE Bonds of any series may be sold at negotiated or competitive sale at, above, or below par, to one or more persons or entities, and upon such terms that the Mayor or an Authorized Signatory considers to be in the best interests of the District. (b) The Mayor or an A…

(a) The Mayor or the Chief Financial Officer is authorized to prescribe the final form and content of all Financing Documents and all Closing Documents to which the District is a party that may be necessary or appropriate to issue, sell, and deliver the GARVEE Bonds. (b) The Mayo…

(a) The GARVEE Bonds shall be special obligations of the District. The GARVEE Bonds shall be without recourse to the District. The GARVEE Bonds shall not be general obligations of the District, shall not be a pledge of, or involve, the faith and credit or the taxing power of the …

(a) Except as otherwise provided in § 9-107.58(c), the elected or appointed officials, officers, employees, or agents of the District shall not be liable personally for the payment of the GARVEE Bonds or be subject to any personal liability by reason of the issuance of the GARVEE…

Copies of the specimen GARVEE Bonds and of the final Financing Documents and Closing Documents shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of the District of Columbia.

(a) Within 3 days after the Mayor’s receipt of the transcript of proceedings relating to the issuance of the GARVEE Bonds, the Mayor shall transmit a copy of the transcript to the Secretary to the Council. (b) Within 12 months after September 23, 2009, and every 12 months thereaf…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the Mayor shall implement the provisions of this part in a manner consistent with the authority of the Chief Financial Officer under § 1-204.24d.

Notwithstanding any other law, during fiscal years 1995 and 1996, the Federal share of the costs of an eligible project shall be a percentage requested by the District of Columbia, but not to exceed 100 percent of the costs of the project. In this section, the term “eligible proj…

Not later than December 31, 1995, the District of Columbia shall establish a dedicated highway fund to be comprised, at a minimum, of amounts equivalent to receipts from motor fuel taxes and, if necessary, motor vehicle taxes and fees collected by the District of Columbia to pay …

The District of Columbia shall expeditiously process and execute contracts to implement the Federal-aid highway program in the District of Columbia. The District of Columbia shall establish an independent revolving fund account for Federal-aid highway projects. The account shall …

(a) There is established the District of Columbia Highway Trust Fund (“Fund”). (b) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, the monies in the Fund shall not be a part of, or lapse into, the General Fund of the District or any other fund of the District. (c) The Mayor…

(a) There is established the Local Transportation Fund, which shall be a segregated account within the General Fund of the District of Columbia and shall be funded by the Director of the District Department of Transportation and into which the Chief Financial Officer of the Distr…

Repealed.