Title 9, Transportation Systems.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia, in submitting the schedules of streets and avenues to be improved, shall each year arrange said streets and avenues in the order of their importance, as determined by him after personal examination of said streets and avenues.

(a) The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered, whenever in his judgment the public health, safety, or comfort require it, or whenever application shall be made therefor, accompanied by a deposit equal to one-half the estimated cost of the work, to improve …

Repayments from the Permit Fund to the appropriation for assessment and permit work shall be credited to the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the repayment is made.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized whenever the roadway of a street is about to be paved or macadamized to make service connections in such street for all abutting lots and premises with the water mains and sewer provided for the service of said lots and p…

(a) Whenever under appropriations made by Congress, the roadway of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia is improved by laying a new pavement thereon or completely resurfacing the same not less than 1 square in extent, from curb to curb, or from gutter to gutter…

(a) The half cost of the paving or repaving of a roadway between the side thereof and the center thereof with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, granite block, vitrified block, cement concrete, bituminous concrete, macadam, or other form of pavement shall be assessed against the prope…

No street or avenue in the District of Columbia shall be paved less in width than the width provided by law except by express authority of Congress upon estimates to be submitted to Congress by the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to change any roadway width by an amount not in excess of 1 foot whenever hereafter he considers the same necessary and advisable in connection with the resurfacing or other improvement of the street.

The use of bituminous macadam is authorized on streets, avenues, and roads to be improved or paved.

The portable asphalt plant purchased under the appropriation for repairs of streets, avenues, and alleys for the fiscal year 1913, may be operated under the immediate direction of the Mayor of the District of Columbia in doing such work of resurfacing and repairs to asphalt pavem…

When as many streets and entire blocks of streets in any section have been paved as the amount allotted to that section will permit, and there still remains a balance insufficient to pave an entire block of the street provided for pavement upon the schedule, such balance shall re…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is prohibited from incurring or contracting liabilities on behalf of the United States in the improvement of streets, avenues, and reservations beyond the amount of appropriations previously made by Congress, and from entering into any contra…

Contracts for repairs to pavements may be made for periods not exceeding 5 years, and subject to annual appropriation therefor by Congress.

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, owners of property abutting streets, avenues, roads, or alleys to be improved, or to have curbs, gutters, sewers, or sidewalks constructed thereon, shall not be required to make any deposit, nor shall the abutting property be assess…

When any curb or gutter is laid, or any curb and gutter are laid, on any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia which said curb shall be constructed of concrete, stone, or other permanent type of construction, or which said gutter shall be constructed of concrete, br…

The total assessment levied hereunder against any abutting property shall not exceed the number of square feet of area of said property multiplied by 1 per centum of the linear front-foot assessment and shall not exceed 10 per centum of the value of the said abutting property, ex…

When any property abuts 2 or more streets, avenues, or roads, the assessments against said property levied hereunder shall not exceed in the aggregate, together with any legal assessments heretofore levied and paid for paving, curbing, and guttering of or on said streets, avenues…

No assessments shall be levied under §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.04, for any roadway improvement completed subsequent to May 25, 1943, but for curbs or gutters, or curbs and gutters, completed subsequent to May 25, 1943, assessments shall be levied against the abutting property in accor…

Whenever under the appropriations made by Congress, the roadway of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia is paved or repaved with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, asphaltic or bituminous concrete (except penetration macadam), cement concrete, granite block, vitrifi…

For the purposes of computing the assessments under this subchapter, the term “roadway” shall be construed to include the gutters and curbings; provided, however, that where any permanent and new construction of curb, or curb and gutter, is laid, and the roadway of the street is …

There shall be excepted from such assessments the cost of paving the roadway in excess of 40 feet in width where the new pavement or repaving is laid on both sides of the centerline of such roadway; the cost of paving the roadway in excess of 20 feet in width where the new paveme…

The maximum linear front foot assessment levied hereunder shall not exceed $3.50 per linear front foot. The total assessment levied hereunder against any abutting property shall not exceed the number of square feet of area of said property multiplied by 1 per centum of the linear…

No property on which a legal assessment has been levied and paid for paving or repaving, curbing or curbing and guttering, on the roadway of any street, avenue, or road, shall be liable for any further assessment under this subchapter on account of the replacement of such pavemen…

No assessments shall be levied for repaving where the original pavement was laid at the whole cost of the owner or owners of the abutting property if the said original pavement was constructed under a permit issued by the District of Columbia and under the supervision and directi…

No assessment shall be levied for the cost of resurfacing asphalt pavements by the heater method — stripping the surface from a rigid type base, and replacing surface thereon — or covering an existing hard surface or macadam pavement or base with bituminous material; provided, th…

When any property abuts 2 or more streets, avenues, or roads, the assessments against said property levied under this subchapter shall not exceed in the aggregate, together with any legal assessments levied and paid prior to February 20, 1931, for the paving, curbing, or curbing …

The assessments provided for in §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.12 shall be made and collected as provided in § 9-401.06, relating to alleys and sidewalks. The rate of interest to be charged upon any assessment, levied under § 9-401.06 relating to alleys and sidewalks, or any instalment the…

Any property owner, aggrieved by any assessment levied under this subchapter, may, within 60 days after service of notice of such assessment, file with the Mayor of the District of Columbia a protest in writing against such assessment, accompanied by affidavits if he so desires, …

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is directed to cancel all assessments for improvements completed within 3 years prior to February 20, 1931, levied under the authority of this subchapter, relating to assessments for the paving of streets, avenues, and roads, or under § 9-401…

Should any provision of this subchapter be decided by the courts to be unconstitutional or invalid, the validity of §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.12 as a whole or of any part thereof other than the part decided to be unconstitutional shall not be affected.

(a) The provisions of §§ 9-421.05, 9-421.06, and 9-421.07 shall not preclude the levying of assessments hereunder if the improvement for which such prior assessment was levied, or, if the original paving, curbing, or curbing and guttering, laid at the whole cost of the owner, wer…

(a) For road segments that lack sidewalks on both sides of the street, road reconstruction, installation of a curb and gutter, or curb and gutter replacement shall include installation of a sidewalk on at least one side of the street. (b) For roadways that are missing sidewalks, …

(a) The Mayor shall provide notice to affected parties, the affected Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, and the Councilmembers of the affected Wards, prior to designing and constructing new sidewalks. At a minimum, this notice shall include: (1) A statement of intent to design an…

(a) The District Department of Transportation may be exempted from the requirements of this subchapter upon a written determination by the Director of the District Department of Transportation (“Director”) that it is impractical or unnecessary to install a sidewalk because: (1) T…

It shall be unlawful for any person to make any cut or trench in any highway, reservation, or public space in the District of Columbia, or to disturb or remove any public work or material therein, without a permit so to do from the Mayor of the District of Columbia. The person ob…

Any person violating any of the provisions of § 9-431.01 shall on conviction thereof in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000; and in default of payment of such fine such person shall be confined in the wor…

It shall be unlawful for any person to make any cut or trench in any highway, reservation, or public space in the District of Columbia, or to disturb or remove any public work or material therein, without a permit so to do from the Mayor of the District of Columbia. The person ob…

Any person violating any of the provisions of § 9-433.01 shall on conviction thereof in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia be punished by a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000; and in default of payment of such fine such person shall be confined in the wor…