61 chapters · 1,826 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 47-2801 Licenses for business or profession; application; transfer of license; signing and sealing
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D.C. Code § 47-2802 Compliance with fire escape laws and regulations required for license
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D.C. Code § 47-2803 Revocation of theater license for failure to comply with public decency regulations
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D.C. Code § 47-2804 Separate license for each business, trade, or profession by same person; place of business restricted to that designated in license; operation under license by others prohibited
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D.C. Code § 47-2805 Establishment of licensing periods by Mayor; prorating for late application
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D.C. Code § 47-2805.01 Establishment of licensing periods by Mayor; prorating for late application
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The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall fix the period for which any license authorized under this subchapter may be issued in a manner consistent with the uniform master [basic] business licensing expiration date provisions as set forth in § 47-2851.09. Licenses issued at an…
D.C. Code § 47-2805.02 Requirement for social security number
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The social security number of each applicant for a license issued pursuant to this chapter, for membership in the bar of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals pursuant to § 11-2501, and for any recreational license issued in the District of Columbia shall be recorded on the a…
D.C. Code § 47-2806 Licenses to be posted on premises; exhibition to police
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All licenses granted under the terms of this chapter must be conspicuously posted on the premises of the licensee and said licenses shall be accessible at all times for inspection by the police or other officers duly authorized to make such inspections. Licensees having no locate…
D.C. Code § 47-2807 Construction and definition of terms
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For the purposes of this chapter, the term “person” shall signify and include firms, corporations, companies, associations, executives, administrators, guardians, or trustees; the term “agent” shall signify and include every person acting for another; the term “merchandise” shall…
D.C. Code § 47-2808 Auctioneers; temporary licenses; penalty for failure to account
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2809 Barbershops and beauty parlors
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2809.01 Body art establishments
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2810 Conventions of national associations of hairdressers or cosmetologists exempted
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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…
D.C. Code § 47-2811 Massage establishments; Turkish, Russian, or medicated baths
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(a) No person shall offer or administer for commercial purposes a massage unless licensed pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 3. (b) Repealed.
D.C. Code § 47-2812 Public baths
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Owners or managers of establishments where public baths are supplied to transients shall pay a license fee of $152 per annum.
D.C. Code § 47-2813 Keeping or storing of moving picture films
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D.C. Code § 47-2814 Gasoline, kerosene, oils, fireworks, and explosives
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2815 Pyroxylin
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2816 Abattoirs or slaughterhouses
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D.C. Code § 47-2817 Laundries; dry cleaning and dyeing establishments
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2818 Mattress manufacture, renovation, storage, or sale; “mattress” defined
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2819 Slot machines
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D.C. Code § 47-2820 Theaters, moving pictures, skating rinks, dances, exhibitions, lectures, entertainments; assignment of police and firemen and additional fees based thereon; hours minors are prohibited on premises
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2821 Bowling alleys; billiard and pool tables; games
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2822 Shooting galleries
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Repealed Repealed.
D.C. Code § 47-2823 Baseball, football, and athletic exhibitions; assignment of police and firemen; amusement parks
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2824 Swimming pools
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2825 Circuses
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2826 Special events
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2827 Commission merchants in food; bakeries; bottling, candy-manufacturing, and ice cream manufacturers; groceries; markets; delicatessens; restaurants; private clubs; wholesale fish dealers; dairies
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2828 Classification of buildings containing living quarters for licenses; fees; buildings exempt from license requirement
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2829 Vehicles for hire; identification tags on vehicles; vehicles for school children; ambulances, private vehicles for funeral purposes; issuance of licenses; payment of fees
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2830 Rental or leasing of motor vehicle without driver
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2831 Vehicles hauling goods from public space
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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…
D.C. Code § 47-2832 Repairing of motor vehicles
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2832.01 Parking establishments
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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.
D.C. Code § 47-2832.02 Tire dealers
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2833 Livery stables
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Repealed Repealed.
D.C. Code § 47-2834 Sales on streets or public places
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D.C. Code § 47-2835 Solicitors
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2836 Guides
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(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 …
D.C. Code § 47-2837 Secondhand dealers; classification; licensing; stolen property
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2838 Dealers in dangerous weapons
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2839 Private detectives; “detective” defined; regulations
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(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”…
D.C. Code § 47-2839.01 Security agencies
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2840 Fortune-telling
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D.C. Code § 47-2841 Exposing persons or animals as targets prohibited
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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…
D.C. Code § 47-2842 Council of the District of Columbia may regulate, modify, or eliminate license requirements
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(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…
D.C. Code § 47-2843 Undertakers’ licenses; qualifications; examination; license without examination; authority of Mayor and Council; appropriations; definitions
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Repealed Repealed.
D.C. Code § 47-2844 Regulations; suspension or revocation of licenses; bonding of licensees authorized to collect moneys; exemptions
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(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…