Title 22 — Criminal Offenses and Penalties.

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D.C. Code § 22-1408 False certificate of acknowledgment
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D.C. Code § 22-1409 Use of official insignia; penalty for unauthorized use
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(a) The Metropolitan Police Department and the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department shall have the sole and exclusive rights to have and use, in carrying out their respective missions, the official badges, patches, emblems, copyrights, descriptive or designating marks, …
D.C. Code § 22-1501 Forgery
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D.C. Code § 22-1502 Forging or imitating brands or packaging of goods
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Whoever wilfully forges, or counterfeits, or makes use of any imitation calculated to deceive the public, though with colorable difference or deviation therefrom, of the private brand, wrapper, label, trademark, bottle, or package usually affixed or used by any person to or with …
D.C. Code § 22-1503 Stealing, destroying, mutilating, secreting, or withholding will
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D.C. Code § 22-1504 Decedent’s estate — Secreting or converting property, documents, or assets
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D.C. Code § 22-1505 Taking away or concealing writings
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D.C. Code § 22-1506 Sale or concealment by conditional vendee, with intent to defraud
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D.C. Code § 22-1507 Fraud by use of slugs to operate coin-controlled mechanism
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D.C. Code § 22-1508 Manufacture, sale, offer for sale, possession of slugs or device to operate coin-controlled mechanism
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D.C. Code § 22-1509 “person” defined
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D.C. Code § 22-1510 Making, drawing, or uttering check, draft, or order with intent to defraud; proof of intent; “credit” defined
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Any person within the District of Columbia who, with intent to defraud, shall make, draw, utter, or deliver any check, draft, order, or other instrument for the payment of money upon any bank or other depository, knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering, or deliverin…
D.C. Code § 22-1511 Fraudulent advertising
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It shall be unlawful in the District of Columbia for any person, firm, association, corporation, or advertising agency, either directly or indirectly, to display or exhibit to the public in any manner whatever, whether by handbill, placard, poster, picture, film, or otherwise; or…
D.C. Code § 22-1512 Prosecution under § 22-1511
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Prosecution under § 22-1511 shall be in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia upon information filed by the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia or an Assistant U.S. Attorney.
D.C. Code § 22-1513 Penalty under § 22-1511
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Any person, firm, or association violating any of the provisions of § 22-1511 shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or by imprisonment of not more than 60 days, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretio…
D.C. Code § 22-1514 Fraudulent interference or collusion in jury selection
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If any person shall fraudulently tamper with any box or wheel used or intended by the jury commission for the names of prospective jurors, or of prospective condemnation jurors or commissioners, or shall fraudulently tamper with the contents of any such box or wheel, or with any …
D.C. Code § 22-1601 Fornication
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D.C. Code § 22-1602 Fornication
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D.C. Code § 22-1701 Lotteries; promotion; sale or possession of tickets
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If any person shall within the District keep, set up, or promote, or be concerned as owner, agent, or clerk, or in any other manner, in managing, carrying on, promoting, or advertising, directly or indirectly, any policy lottery, policy shop, or any lottery, or shall sell or tran…
D.C. Code § 22-1702 Possession of lottery or policy tickets
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If any person shall, within the District of Columbia, knowingly have in his or her possession or under his control, any record, notation, receipt, ticket, certificate, bill, slip, token, paper, or writing, current or not current, used or to be used in violating the provisions of …
D.C. Code § 22-1703 Permitting sale of lottery tickets on premises
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If any person shall knowingly permit, on any premises under his or her control in the District, the sale of any chance or ticket in or share of a ticket in any lottery or policy lottery, or shall knowingly permit any lottery or policy lottery, or policy shop on such premises, he …
D.C. Code § 22-1704 Gaming; setting up gaming table; inducing play
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Whoever shall in the District set up or keep any gaming table, or any house, vessel, or place, on land or water, for the purpose of gaming, or gambling device commonly called A B C, faro bank, E O, roulette, equality, keno, thimbles, or little joker, or any kind of gaming table o…
D.C. Code § 22-1705 Gambling premises; definition; prohibition against maintaining; forfeiture; liens; deposit of moneys in Treasury; penalty; subsequent offenses
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(a) Any house, building, vessel, shed, booth, shelter, vehicle, enclosure, room, lot, or other premises in the District of Columbia, used or to be used in violating the provisions of § 22-1701 or § 22-1704, shall be deemed “gambling premises” for the purpose of this section. (b) …
D.C. Code § 22-1706 Three-card monte and confidence games
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Whoever shall in the District deal, play, or practice, or be in any manner accessory to the dealing or practicing, of the confidence game or swindle known as 3-card monte, or of any such game, play, or practice, or any other confidence game, play, or practice, shall be deemed gui…
D.C. Code § 22-1707 “Gaming table” defined
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All games, devices, or contrivances at which money or any other thing shall be bet or wagered shall be deemed a gaming table within the meaning of §§ 22-1704 to 22-1706; and the courts shall construe said sections liberally, so as to prevent the mischief intended to be guarded ag…
D.C. Code § 22-1708 Gambling pools and bookmaking; athletic contest defined
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It shall be unlawful for any person, or association of persons, within the District of Columbia to purchase, possess, own, or acquire any chance, right, or interest, tangible or intangible, in any policy lottery or any lottery, or to make or place a bet or wager, accept a bet or …
D.C. Code § 22-1709 Bucketing, and bucket-shopping and bucket-shops; definitions
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D.C. Code § 22-1710 Penalty for bucketing or keeping bucket-shop
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D.C. Code § 22-1711 Penalty for communicating, receiving, exhibiting, or displaying quotations of prices
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D.C. Code § 22-1712 Bucketing; written statement to be furnished; contents
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D.C. Code § 22-1713 Corrupt influence in connection with athletic contests
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(a) It shall be unlawful to pay or give, or to agree to pay or give, or to promise or offer, any valuable thing to any individual: (1) With intent to influence such individual to lose or cause to be lost, or to attempt to lose or cause to be lost, or to limit or attempt to limit …
D.C. Code § 22-1714 Immunity of witnesses; record
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(a) Whenever, in the judgment of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the testimony of any witness, or the production of books, papers, or other records or documents, by any witness, in any case or proceeding involving a violation of this subchapter before any…
D.C. Code § 22-1715 Presence in illegal establishments
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D.C. Code § 22-1716 Statement of purpose
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It is the purpose of this subchapter to legalize lotteries, daily numbers games, bingo, raffles, and Monte Carlo night parties, which activities are to be conducted only by the District of Columbia and only those licensed by the District of Columbia and subject to the jurisdictio…
D.C. Code § 22-1717 Permissible gambling activities
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Nothing in subchapter I of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the operation of or participation in lotteries and/or daily numbers games operated by and for the benefit of the District of Columbia by the Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board; bingo, raffles, and Mont…
D.C. Code § 22-1718 Advertising and promotion; sale and possession of lottery and numbers tickets and slips
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(a) Nothing in subchapter I of this chapter shall be construed to prohibit the advertising and promotion of excepted permissible gambling activities pursuant to § 22-1717, hereof, including, but not limited to, the sale, by agents authorized by the District of Columbia, and the p…
D.C. Code § 22-1801 “Writing” and “paper” defined
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Except where otherwise provided for where such a construction would be unreasonable, the words “writing” and “paper,” wherever mentioned in this title, are to be taken to include instruments wholly in writing or wholly printed, or partly printed and partly in writing.
D.C. Code § 22-1802 “Anything of value” defined
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The words “anything of value,” wherever they occur in this title and the District of Columbia Theft and White Collar Crimes Act of 1982, shall be held to include not only things possessing intrinsic value, but bank notes and other forms of paper money, and commercial paper and ot…
D.C. Code § 22-1803 Attempts to commit crime
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Whoever shall attempt to commit any crime, which attempt is not otherwise made punishable by chapter 19 of An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. 1321), shall be punished by a fine not more than the amount set forth in § 2…
D.C. Code § 22-1804 Second conviction
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(a) If any person: (1) is convicted of a criminal offense (other than a non-moving traffic offense) under a law applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia; and (2) was previously convicted of a criminal offense under any law of the United States or of a state or territory…
D.C. Code § 22-1804a Penalty for felony after at least 2 prior felony convictions
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(a)(1) If a person is convicted in the District of Columbia of a felony, having previously been convicted of 2 prior felonies not committed on the same occasion, the court may, in lieu of any sentence authorized, impose such greater term of imprisonment as it deems necessary, up …
D.C. Code § 22-1805 Persons advising, inciting, or conniving at criminal offense to be charged as principals
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In prosecutions for any criminal offense all persons advising, inciting, or conniving at the offense, or aiding or abetting the principal offender, shall be charged as principals and not as accessories, the intent of this section being that as to all accessories before the fact t…
D.C. Code § 22-1805a Conspiracy to commit crime
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(a)(1) If 2 or more persons conspire either to commit a criminal offense or to defraud the District of Columbia or any court or agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, each shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned not more than 5 ye…
D.C. Code § 22-1806 Accessories after the fact
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Whoever shall be convicted of being an accessory after the fact to any crime punishable by death shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than 20 years. Whoever shall be convicted of being accessory after the fact to any crime punishable by imprisonment shall be punished by…
D.C. Code § 22-1807 Punishment for offenses not covered by provisions of Code
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Whoever shall be convicted of any criminal offense not covered by the provisions of any section of this Code, or of any general law of the United States not locally inapplicable in the District of Columbia, shall be punished by a fine not more than the amount set forth in § 22-35…
D.C. Code § 22-1808 Offenses committed beyond District
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Any person who by the commission outside of the District of Columbia of any act which, if committed within the District of Columbia, would be a criminal offense under the laws of said District, thereby obtains any property or other thing of value, and is afterwards found with any…
D.C. Code § 22-1809 Prosecutions
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All prosecutions for violations of § 22-1321 or any of the provisions of any of the laws or ordinances provided for by this act shall be conducted in the name of and for the benefit of the District of Columbia, and in the same manner as provided by law for the prosecution of offe…
D.C. Code § 22-1810 Threatening to kidnap or injure a person or damage his property
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Whoever threatens within the District of Columbia to kidnap any person or to injure the person of another or physically damage the property of any person or of another person, in whole or in part, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned not…
D.C. Code § 22-1831 Definitions
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For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process” means the use or threatened use of law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, to exert p…
D.C. Code § 22-1832 Forced labor
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(a) It is unlawful for an individual or a business knowingly to use coercion to cause a person to provide labor or services. (b) It is unlawful for an individual or a business knowingly to place or keep any person in debt bondage.