Title 1, Government Organization.

The candidate in each single-member district receiving the highest number of votes cast in such election shall be declared the winner, except that in the case of a tie the procedures set forth in § 1-1001.10(c) shall govern.

(a) Petitions for changes in the boundaries of an Advisory Neighborhood Commission area or single-member district within any such area may be filed with the Council of the District of Columbia during the month of January of the year in which elections for Advisory Neighborhood Co…

(a) The Board is authorized to conduct the elections provided for in this part and to adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce such regulations as are deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this part. The Board shall conduct such elections in the same manner as elections held u…

*NOTE: This section includes amendments by emergency legislation that will expire on November 11, 2026. To view the text of this section after the expiration of all emergency and temporary legislation affecting this section, click this link: Permanent Version.* (a) Each Advisory …

(a) Reserved. (b)(1) Each Commission shall meet in public session at regular intervals at least 9 times per year at locations that are designed to reasonably accommodate the residents of the Commission area, depending on the issues to be considered by the Commission. The Commissi…

(a) Commissions may meet jointly either formally or informally to deal more effectively with or respond to common issues and concerns. A Commissioner of an individual Commission may represent and participate in a formal joint meeting only after the individual Commission has autho…

*NOTE: This section includes amendments by emergency legislation that will expire on November 11, 2026. To view the text of this section after the expiration of all emergency and temporary legislation affecting this section, click this link: Permanent Version.* (a) Each Commissio…

(a) There is established as a special fund the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Technical Support and Assistance Fund ("Fund"), which shall be administered by the Office of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in accordance with subsection (c) of this section. (b) Money from the fo…

*NOTE: This section will expire on December 31, 2025.* (a) There is established, for the purpose of insuring Advisory Neighborhood Commissions against unauthorized expenditures or loss of funds, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission Security Fund (“Fund”) to be held in the custody …

*NOTE: This section includes amendments by emergency legislation that will expire on November 11, 2026. To view the text of this section after the expiration of all emergency and temporary legislation affecting this section, click this link: Permanent Version.* (a) There is hereb…

(a) As soon as possible after June 19, 1976, but in no case more than 5 days after such date, the Board shall: (1) Make available to any resident of a Commission area copies of petition forms for collecting signatures of registered qualified electors in such area; and (2) Publish…

Members of the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions which are established pursuant to the provisions of this part shall: (1) Be nominated in the manner prescribed in § 1-309.05(b); and (2) Have those qualifications specified in § 1-309.05(a).

(a) Following the initial elections of members of Advisory Neighborhood Commissions in November 1976, subsequent elections of such members occurred in November of odd-numbered calendar years through 1981. Beginning in 1984, general elections of members of Advisory Neighborhood Co…

Except to the extent specifically provided in this part, those provisions of the Advisory Neighborhood Commissions Act of 1975, including the amendments made by that Act, and all other provisions of law relating to Advisory Neighborhood Commissions, shall apply to the Advisory Ne…

The Board is authorized to adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this part, and is further directed to take such steps as are necessary to ensure that the election provided for under this part is held in an efficient ma…

(a) Except as provided in this section, each Advisory Neighborhood Commission ("ANC") shall be the successor in interest with regard to any assets, obligations, or agreements of its predecessor previously established by law. (b) The successor in interest to any agreement with an …

The Council of the District of Columbia (“Council”) declares that it is the policy of the District of Columbia government (“District government”) to: (1) Promote better execution of laws, more effective management of the District government and of its agencies and functions, and …

For the purposes of this subchapter the term: (1) “Agency” means any office, department, division, board, commission, or other agency of the District government, required by law or by the Mayor or Council to administer any law or any rule adopted under the authority of a law. The…

For the purposes of carrying out the objectives of § 1-315.01, the process of reorganization means that action which results in the transfer, consolidation, abolition, or authorization with respect to functions and hierarchy, between or among agencies, and which affects the struc…

(a) When, after investigation, the Mayor finds that it is necessary to accomplish 1 or more purposes of § 1-315.03, he or she shall prepare a detailed reorganization plan consistent with such findings, which are included in the plan, and shall transmit the plan bearing an identif…

(a) A reorganization plan transmitted by the Mayor pursuant to § 1-315.04 shall: (1) In such cases as the Mayor deems necessary, change the name of an agency or part of an agency affected by reorganization and the title of its head, designate the name of the agency resulting from…

The Mayor shall annually submit to the Council, on or before February 1st for a 45-day period of review, a revised chart detailing the organization and structure of the District government that shall reflect any reorganization plans or legislative changes relating to the structur…

(a) The Mayor shall, within 60 days of October 17, 1981, transmit to the Council a report on all boards and commissions in existence during the preceding 12-month period by major categories by 1 of the following functions: (1) Institutional governance boards; (2) Independent regu…

Neither the Mayor of the District of Columbia, nor any officer whatsoever of the District of Columbia, shall be accepted as surety upon any bond required to be given to the District of Columbia; nor shall any contractor be accepted as surety for any officer or other contractor in…

It shall be the policy of the District of Columbia government to utilize volunteer citizens in as many governmental programs as is practicable to serve the interests of the community. No volunteer person shall be used to fill any position or perform any service which is currently…

The Mayor is directed to promulgate regulations governing the use of volunteers by agencies, departments, commissions, and instrumentalities of the District of Columbia: Provided, that the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Attorney General for the District of Colum…

(a) Volunteer citizens may not assist governmental programs until regulations have been properly promulgated under the authority of §§ 1-319.01 to 1-319.05. No volunteer may be placed in any position likely to constitute a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of i…

No provision of §§ 1-319.01 to 1-319.05 shall be deemed to apply to volunteers in the Offices of the United States Marshal or the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.

For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) The term “employee” means a person who is paid by the District of Columbia government from grant or appropriated funds for his or her services. (2) The term “volunteer” means a person who donates his or her services to a specific program o…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in the sections mentioned in § 1-321.02, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered to determine from time to time the honorariums to be paid to the members of the boards, commissions, and committees appointed an…

This subchapter shall apply to the boards, commissions, and committees and the members thereof, respectively, established pursuant to the following sections: 1-301.01, 3-1601 to 3-1631 [repealed], 3-1701 to 3-1719 [repealed], 3-2001 to 3-2028 [repealed], 3-2101 to 3-2132 [repeale…

Any fee or charge paid for an examination, license, certificate, or registration pursuant to any sections mentioned in § 1-321.02 shall, if not earned, be refunded upon application therefor: Provided, that application for refund is made not later than the end of the 3rd fiscal ye…

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized, after a public hearing, to fix and change from time to time the period for which any license, certificate, or registration authorized by any section set forth in § 1-321.02 may be issued. Upon change of a license, certificate o…

Whenever any board, commission, or committee, other than the Mayor of the District of Columbia, is mentioned in this subchapter, such board, commission, or committee shall be deemed to be the board, commission, or committee or other agency succeeding to the functions of the board…

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated out of the revenues of the District of Columbia such sums as may be necessary to pay the expenses of administering the sections listed in § 1-321.02, including the expenses of the Department of Licenses, Investigation and Inspections,…

Hereafter no department, board, office, or agency of the government of the District of Columbia shall include any illustration in any annual report prepared by it unless such illustration be authorized under order or regulation approved by the Mayor of the District of Columbia.

In all cases where the printing of annual or special reports of the government of the District of Columbia is discontinued, the original copy thereof shall be kept on file in the Office of the Mayor of the District of Columbia for public inspection.

The Mayor shall issue rules setting out the criteria by which the Bank Loan Committee shall evaluate loan applications and the terms that shall govern the loans, including procedures for repayment. The Bank Loan Committee shall not issue any loans until the publication of final r…

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Anti-Graffiti Mural Assistance Program Fund (“Fund”), which shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in subsections (c) and (d) of this section, and administered by the Office of the Director of the Department of Public Wor…

(a) The Public Planning Capital Project Fund is hereby established. (b) With each annual capital budget request submitted by the Mayor to the Council in accordance with § 1-204.42, the Mayor shall include as a discrete capital project a public planning fund for which the Mayor sh…

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Business Improvement District Litter Cleanup Assistance Fund (“Fund”), which shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in subsection (c) of this section, and administered by the Office of the Director of the Department of Pu…

(a)(1) There is established as a special fund the Community-Based Violence Reduction Fund ("Fund"), which shall be administered by the Mayor in accordance with subsection (b) of this section. (2) Repealed. (b) The funds in the Fund shall be used only for the purpose of giving gra…

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Veterans Appreciation Scholarship Fund “Fund”, which shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in subsection (c) of this section. The Fund shall be funded by appropriations. (b) All funds deposited into the Veterans Apprecia…

For the purposes of this part, the term: (1) “Alley Rehabilitation Project” means the capital project designated as District Department of Transportation capital project CEL21C in the District’s capital improvement program. (2) “Buyer agency” means a District department, office, …

(a) There is established as a special fund the Capital Project Support Fund, which shall be administered by the Chief Financial Officer in accordance with this part. (b) All surplus capital funds identified by the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to §§ 1-325.153a, 1-325.153b, and…

(a) Funding for an approved capital project may be provided through redirection in an approved budget and financial plan or through a reprogramming, pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 47. (b) Within 30 days of a request by the Mayor to reprogram the money in the Fund to an approved c…