Title 47, Taxation, Licensing, Permits, Assessments, and Fees. [Enacted title]

(a) Auctioneers shall pay a license fee of $222 per annum. (b) The Mayor may issue a temporary auctioneer license to a person, firm, partnership, association, organization, or corporation engaged in or existing for charitable, benevolent, eleemosynary, humane, religious, philanth…

(a) Owners or managers of barbershops, beauty parlors, beauty salons, vanity shops, or shingle shops, by whatsoever name called, where hair cutting, hair dressing, hair dyeing, manicuring, and kindred acts are practiced shall pay a license fee of $60 biennially. In addition, any …

(a) For the purposes of this section and Part D-i of Subchapter I-B of this chapter, the term: (1) “Board” means the Board of Barber and Cosmetology. (2) “Body art” or “body art procedure” means the process of physically modifying the body for cosmetic or other non-medical purpos…

The provisions of Chapter 20 [repealed] of Title 3 and of § 47-2809 shall not be applicable to activities conducted in connection with any bona fide regularly scheduled national annual convention of any national association of professional hairdressers or cosmetologists, from whi…

(a) No person shall offer or administer for commercial purposes a massage unless licensed pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 3. (b) Repealed.

Owners or managers of establishments where public baths are supplied to transients shall pay a license fee of $152 per annum.

(a) Owners or managers of establishments where gasoline or oils of like grade are sold shall pay a license fee of $17 per annum for each pump used in dispensing said gasoline or oils. (b) Owners or managers of establishments where kerosene, oils, or gasoline of like grade are sto…

(a) Owners or managers of establishments where pyroxylin is kept or stored for painting or spraying shall pay a license fee of $50 per annum. No license shall issue hereunder without the approval of the Fire Marshal of the District of Columbia. (b) Any license issued pursuant to …

(a) Owners or managers of laundries operated other than by hand power shall pay a license fee of $188 biennially. (b) Repealed. (c)(1) Owners or managers of dry cleaning or dyeing establishments shall pay a license fee of $222 biennially. (2) Any license issued pursuant to this s…

(a)(1) Persons engaged in the business of manufacturing or renovating mattresses shall pay a license fee of $476 biennially. (2) Any license issued pursuant to this subsection shall be issued as a Manufacturing endorsement to a basic business license under the basic business lice…

(a) Owners or managers of theaters in which moving pictures are displayed, for profit or gain, shall pay a license fee of $830 biennially. (b) Owners or managers of buildings in which skating rinks, fairs, carnivals, balls, dances, exhibitions, lectures, or entertainments of any …

(a) Owners or managers of establishments where bowling alleys, billiard or pool tables, or any table, alley, or board upon which legitimate games are played, shall, when they are operated or conducted for public use, or for profit or gain, pay a license tax of $39 per annum for e…

(a)(1) Owners or managers of grounds used for baseball, football, or other athletic exhibitions to which an admission fee is charged, directly or indirectly, shall pay a license fee of $17 per annum. (2) When, in the opinion of the Chief of Police and Fire Chief of the District o…

(a) Owners or managers of swimming pools, indoor or outdoor, shall pay a license fee of $319 per annum. (b) Any license issued pursuant to this section shall be issued as a Public Health: Public Accommodations endorsement to a basic business license under the basic business licen…

(a) Proprietors or owners of a circus transported by railroad into the District of Columbia shall pay a license fee of $19 per day for each carload of circus equipment, and proprietors or owners of any circus transported by wagons or motor trucks into the District of Columbia sha…

(a) Owners, managers, or promoters of carnivals or fairs, by whatsoever name called, conducted for profit or gain, and not held in any building or structure licensed under this chapter, shall pay a license fee of $158 per day. (b) The Mayor may adjust the license fee set in subse…

(a) Commission merchants dealing in food or food products shall pay a license fee of $645 per annum. (b)(1) Owners or managers of bakeries, candy-manufacturing establishments, grocery stores, marine products or fish sold at retail, meat shops and market stands handling food or fo…

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered to classify, according to use, method of operation, and size, buildings containing living or lodging quarters of every description, to require licenses for the business operated in each such building as in it…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the District government shall not issue or reissue a license or permit to any applicant for a license or permit if the applicant: (1) Owes the District more than $100 in outstanding fines, penalties, or interest assessed pursuant to…

(a) The owners or managers of establishments where automobiles or other motor vehicles are kept for rent or lease without a driver shall pay a license fee of $600 biennially for each such establishment; provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to exempt suc…

Owners of vehicles for hire, used in hauling goods, wares, or merchandise, and operating from public space, shall pay a license tax of $25 per annum for each vehicle. Stands for such vehicles upon public space may be established in the manner provided in § 50-2201.03. Licenses is…

(a) Owners or managers of establishments where motor vehicles of any description are washed, cleaned, greased, oiled, or repaired, for profit or gain, shall pay a license fee of $30 per annum. (b) Any license issued pursuant to this section shall be issued as [a] Motor Vehicles S…

Any license or permit for a parking establishment issued under this chapter shall be issued as a General Services and Repair endorsement to a basic business license under the basic business license system as set forth in subchapter I-A of this chapter.

(a) The owners or managers of establishments where waste tires are generated shall pay a license fee as established by the Mayor. (b) Any license for a waste tire generator issued under this chapter shall be issued as a General Services and Repair endorsement to a basic business …

(a) Solicitors shall pay a license fee of $316 biennially. Any person who goes from house to house, or place to place, within the District of Columbia, selling or taking orders for or offering to sell or take orders for goods, wares, merchandise, or any article or thing of value …

(a) No person shall, for hire, guide or escort any person through or about the District of Columbia, or any part thereof, unless he shall have first secured a license so to do. The fee for each such license shall be $28 per annum. No license shall be issued hereunder without the …

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered to classify dealers in secondhand personal property (referred to in this section as “dealers”) and the Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered to fix and collect a license fee for each s…

(a) Dealers in dangerous or deadly weapons shall pay a license tax of $300 per annum. No license shall issue hereunder without the approval of the Chief of Police, and the Council of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered to make and promulgate regulations for the c…

(a) Private detectives, or detective agencies, by whatsoever name called, shall pay a license tax of $158 per annum; provided, that no license shall be issued under this section without the approval of the Chief of Police. (b) For the purpose of this section, the term “detective”…

(a) For the purpose of this section, the term: (1) “Campus police officer” means an individual appointed under § 5-129.02, and subject to the requirements of Chapter 12 of Title 6A of the District of Columbia Municipal Regualtions [Regulations]. (2) “Security agency” means a pers…

No person shall set up, operate, or conduct any business or device by or in which any person, animal, or living object shall act or be exposed as a target for any ball, projectile, missile, or thing thrown or projected for or in consideration of profit or gain, directly or indire…

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered, when in its discretion such is deemed advisable, to require a license of other businesses or callings not listed in this chapter or Chapter 30 [repealed] of this title and which, in its judgment, require ins…

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia and Mayor are further authorized and empowered to make any regulations that may be necessary in furtherance of the purpose of this chapter and the Mayor is further authorized and empowered to suspend or revoke any license issued hereund…

(a)(1) When a board, or the Mayor, after investigation but prior to a hearing, has cause to believe that a person is violating any provision of this chapter and the violation has caused or may cause immediate and irreparable harm to the public, the board or the Mayor may issue an…

Prosecutions for violations of any of the provisions of this chapter, or of any section added hereto from time to time by the Council of the District of Columbia, or of any regulation made by the Council under authority of this chapter, shall be on information in the Superior Cou…

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, or additions thereto made from time to time by the Council of the District of Columbia, where no specific penalty is fixed, or the violation of any regulation made by the Council under the authority of this chapter, shal…

Any violation of any provision of law or regulation issued hereunder which is repealed by this chapter and any liability arising under such provisions or regulations may, if the violation occurred or the liability arose prior to such repeal, be prosecuted to the same extent as if…

If any provision of this chapter is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and the applicability of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to refund any license fee or tax, or portion thereof, erroneously paid or collected under this chapter.

(a) The Mayor is authorized, in accordance with [subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2], to: (1) Promulgate rules to govern the business of furnishing towing services for motor vehicles; and (2) Amend or repeal any provision of chapter 4 of Title 16 of the District of Columbia Mun…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Basic business license” means the single document designed for public display issued by the business license center that certifies District agency license approval and that incorporates the endorsements for individual licenses i…

(a) A person which is required under law to obtain a license issued in the form of an endorsement to engage in a business in the District of Columbia shall not engage in such business in the District of Columbia without having first obtained a basic business license and any neces…

(a) Endorsements to a basic business license shall be issued in the following license endorsement categories: (1) Repealed. (2) Educational Services; (3) Entertainment; (4) Environmental Materials; (5) Financial Services; (6)(A) Housing: Transient; and (B) Housing: Residential; (…

(a) Repealed. (b)(1) The following licenses are eliminated as separate license categories: (A) Educational and Cultural Institutions; (B) Institutions of Learning; (C) Medical and Dental Colleges; (D) Post-Secondary Institutions; and (E) Veterans Training. (2) Businesses meeting …

To the extent feasible, and dependent on the available technology needed for implementation, each business licensed pursuant to this subchapter shall have a unique identifying number that shall be used for all official purposes, including taxation.

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as limiting or reassigning any District agency’s power to inspect for compliance or to revoke licensure. Agencies of the District government responsible for the issuance of license endorsements shall revoke, deny, or suspend any licen…