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D.C. Code § 42-2001 Short title
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This subchapter, including its table of contents, may be cited as the “Horizontal Property Act of the District of Columbia.”
D.C. Code § 42-2002 Definitions
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Unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, as used herein: (1) “Unit” or “condominium unit” means an enclosed space, consisting of 1 or more rooms, occupying all or part of 1 or more floors in buildings of 1 or more floors or stories regar…
D.C. Code § 42-2003 Establishment by subdivision
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Whenever the owners or the co-owners of any square or lot shall subdivide the same into a condominium project in conformity with § 42-2009 with a plat of condominium subdivision there shall be established a horizontal property regime.
D.C. Code § 42-2004 Transfer of individual units; incidents of real property; recordation
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Once the property is subdivided into the horizontal property regime, a condominium unit in the project may be individually conveyed, leased, and encumbered and may be inherited or devised by will, as if it were sole and entirely independent of the other condominium units in the p…