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District of Columbia Statutes, Title 47

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

61 chapters · 1,419 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 471,419 Ch 28, General License Law.279 Ch 3, Budget and Financial Management; Bor…162 Ch 18, Income and Franchise Taxes.128 Ch 8, Real Property Assessment and Tax.124 Ch 10, Property Exempt from Taxation.98 Ch 46, Special Tax Incentives.62 Ch 13A, Revised Real Property Tax Sales.49 Ch 44, Collections.37 Ch 1, General Provisions.34 Ch 20, Gross Sales Tax.30 Ch 23, Motor Fuel Tax.28 Ch 24, Tobacco Tax.26 Ch 4, Collection and Disbursement of Taxes.24 Ch 13, Real Property Tax Sales.24

9 sections·Filtered byTitle 47✕Ch 29✕

D.C. Code § 47-2901 Discrimination because of race or color prohibited in licensed places of amusement; penalty
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It shall not be lawful for any person or persons who shall have obtained a license from this Corporation for the purpose of giving a lecture, concert, exhibition, circus performance, theatrical entertainment, or for conducting a place of public amusement of any kind, to make any …
D.C. Code § 47-2902 Discrimination because of race or color prohibited in licensed hotels and restaurants; penalty
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(a) It shall not be lawful for the keeper, proprietor, or proprietors of any licensed hotel, tavern, restaurant, ordinary, sample room, tippling house, saloon, or eating house, to refuse to receive, admit, entertain, and supply any quiet and orderly person or persons, or to exclu…
D.C. Code § 47-2903 Increase of penalty provisions in § 47-2901
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In lieu of the penalties provided in § 47-2901 for the offense therein mentioned, the penalty mentioned in § 47-2902(b) is hereby substituted, and hereafter shall be applicable to and enforced, as herein provided, for any violation of § 47-2901.
D.C. Code § 47-2904 Recovery of fine; payment of moiety

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After the final conviction of any party for the violation of any of the provisions of §§ 47-2901 to 47-2903, and the recovery of the fine, a sum equal in amount to one-half of such fine shall be paid, and warrant drawn in the usual form out of the General Fund, to the party who m…

D.C. Code § 47-2907 Restaurants, hotels, barber shops, bathing houses, ice cream saloons, and soda fountains required to serve well-behaved persons

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Any restaurant keeper or proprietor, any hotel keeper or proprietor, proprietors or keepers of ice cream saloons or places where soda water is kept for sale, or keepers of barber shops and bathing houses, refusing to sell or wait upon any respectable well-behaved person, without …

D.C. Code § 47-2908 Licensed restaurants, eating houses, barrooms, sample rooms, ice cream saloons, or soda fountains required to post price list

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The proprietor or proprietors, or keeper or keepers, of every licensed restaurant, eating house, barroom, sample room, ice cream saloon, or soda fountain room, or establishment in the District of Columbia, shall put up, or cause to be kept up, and to be regularly kept up, or caus…

D.C. Code § 47-2909 Transmission of price list to Assessor

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On or before the first day of November in each year the proprietor or proprietors, keeper or keepers, of each licensed restaurant, eating house, barroom, sample room, ice cream saloon, and soda fountain room or establishment in said District, as aforesaid, shall transmit to the A…

D.C. Code § 47-2910 Licensed restaurants, eating houses, barrooms, sample rooms, ice cream saloons, or soda fountains required to serve well-behaved persons at common prices

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The proprietor or proprietors, keeper or keepers, of any licensed restaurant, eating house, barroom, sample room, ice cream saloon, or soda fountain room shall sell at and for the usual or common prices charged by him, her, or them, as contained in said printed cards or papers, a…

D.C. Code § 47-2911 Failure to post or file price list; charging other or greater price; failure to serve any well-behaved person; penalty; enforcement

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If the proprietor or proprietors, keeper or keepers, of any place or establishment, as aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to put up printed cards or papers of prices as provided for in § 47-2908, or shall refuse to send a copy or duplicate to the Assessor as provided in § 47-2909…