Title 9 — Transportation Systems.
15 chapters · 443 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 9-501 Rates; maintenance
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(a) No more than the following rates shall be paid for lighting avenues, streets, roads, alleys, and public spaces: (1) For mantle gas lamps of 60 candlepower, $18.40 per lamp per annum; (2) For mantle gas lamps of not less than 120 candlepower, $27 per lamp per annum; (3) For st…
D.C. Code § 9-502 Electric lamps on overhead wires prohibited
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No public electric lamp shall be maintained by means of overhead wires within either the city limits of Washington or the existing fire limits of the District of Columbia as existing March 2, 1911.
D.C. Code § 9-503 Failure to provide required illumination; testing facilities
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Proportionate deductions shall be made from the amounts due lighting companies for failure to furnish the illumination required by law for public lighting in the District of Columbia, and each company shall furnish, at its own expense, when and as required by the Mayor of the Dis…
D.C. Code § 9-504 Mayor not required to execute contracts for lighting
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The Mayor of the District of Columbia shall not be required to execute contracts for gas and electric lighting.
D.C. Code § 9-505 Failure to furnish, erect, maintain, move, or discontinue street lamps
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Any gaslight company or any electric light company doing business in the District of Columbia, which shall fail or refuse to furnish, erect, maintain, move, or discontinue any street lamp in compliance with the foregoing provisions as the Mayor of the District of Columbia may dir…
D.C. Code § 9-506 Extension of gas mains for maintenance of street lamps
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Each gas company in the District of Columbia shall, at its sole and entire expense, make reasonable extensions of its gas mains whenever the said extensions shall be necessary for maintaining street lamps for the public safety and comfort, and the Council of the District of Colum…
D.C. Code § 9-507 Mayor to regulate hours of lighting of street lamps
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The Mayor of the District of Columbia, subject to appropriations therefor, is hereby authorized and empowered to require that all public and other lamps under his control be lighted during such hours as in his judgment will most effectively promote the safety and convenience of t…
D.C. Code § 9-508 Washington Terminal Company to pay for certain street lighting
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The Washington Terminal Company, its successors, or transferees shall pay to the District for the lighting of the streets, avenues, alleys, and grounds over and under which its right-of-way may cross, as well as for the lighting of those streets, avenues, alleys, and grounds bord…
D.C. Code § 9-509 Railroads to pay for certain street lighting
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All railroads other than street railroads shall pay to the District of Columbia for the lighting, under the direction and control of the Mayor of the District of Columbia, of the public roads, streets, avenues, and alleys, for their full width, through which their tracks may be l…
D.C. Code § 9-510 Increase in number of street lamps authorized
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The proper authorities are directed to increase from time to time, as the public good may require, the number of street lamps on any of the streets, lanes, alleys, public ways, and grounds, in the City of Washington, and to do any and all things pertaining to the well lighting of…