Title 6 — Housing and Building Restrictions and Regulations.
16 chapters · 355 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 6-801 Unsafe structure or excavation — Inspection; owner to remove or secure; Mayor may take immediate action; “Mayor” defined
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(a) If in the District of Columbia any building or part of a building, staging, or other structure, or anything attached to or connected with any building or other structure or excavation, shall, from any cause, be reported unsafe, the Mayor shall examine such structure or excava…
D.C. Code § 6-802 Unsafe structure or excavation — Survey of premises
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(a) When the public safety does not, in the judgment of the Mayor, demand immediate action, if the owner, agent, or other party interested in an unsafe structure, except for a deteriorated structure under subchapter II of Chapter 31C of Title 42, or excavation, having been notifi…
D.C. Code § 6-803 Unsafe structure or excavation — Failure of owner to make safe
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(a) Whenever the report of any such survey shall declare the structure, except for a deteriorated structure under subchapter II of Chapter 31C of Title 42, or excavation to be unsafe, or shall state that structural repairs should be made in order to place the said structure, exce…
D.C. Code § 6-804 Dangerous nuisances; notice to abate; failure to abate; life-or-health threatening condition on vacant lot
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(a) The existence on any lot or parcel of land, in the District of Columbia, of any uncovered well, cistern, dangerous hole, excavation, any dead, dangerous or diseased tree, or part thereof, or of any abandoned vehicles of any description or parts thereof, miscellaneous material…
D.C. Code § 6-805 Cost of work performed by Mayor assessed against property; violation of §§ 6-801 to 6-803; costs of correcting life-or-health threatening condition
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(a) The Mayor shall determine the cost and expense of any work performed by him under the authority of §§ 6-801 to 6-804, including the cost of making good damage to adjoining premises (except such as may have resulted from carelessness and willful recklessness in the demolition …
D.C. Code § 6-806 Payment of cost assessed against property; sale of property for nonpayment
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(a) Any tax authorized to be levied and collected under § 6-804, may be paid without interest within 60 days from the date such tax was levied. Interest of 20% per annum shall be charged on all unpaid amounts from the expiration of 60 days from the date such tax was levied. Any s…
D.C. Code § 6-807 Service of notice
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(a) Any notice required by this chapter to be served shall be deemed to have been served when served by any of the following methods: (1) when forwarded to the last known address of the owner as recorded in the real estate assessment records of the District of Columbia, by regist…
D.C. Code § 6-808 Occupation of unsafe structure
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Whenever the Mayor finds that any building or part of a building, staging, or other structure, or anything attached to or connected with any building or other structure or excavation shall cause a building to be unsafe for human occupancy, he shall give notice of such fact to the…