Title 42, Real Property.

(a)(1) Any fees required under § 42-3131.06(a) or § 42-3131.09 that remain unpaid after receipt of the notice under § 42-3131.08 or § 42-3131.11 shall be assessed as a tax against the real property containing the vacant building and shall be subject to § 6-806 and shall constitut…

(a) Within 15 days after the designation of an owner’s building as a vacant building, the determination of delinquency of registration or fee payment, the denial or revocation of registration, or the designation of a vacant building as a blighted vacant building, the owner may pe…

(a) Semiannually, the Mayor shall transmit to the Office of Tax and Revenue a list of buildings: (1) Registered as vacant; provided, that for the purposes of this section and § 47-813(d-1)(5)(A-i)(i)(I)(aa), buildings for which the registration has been revoked shall also be deem…

(a) Semiannually, the Mayor shall transmit to the Office of Tax and Revenue a list of buildings designated by the Mayor as blighted vacant buildings for which a notice of final determination has been issued under this and administrative appeals have been exhausted or expired. (b)…

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Abate” means to effectively remove or cover. (2) “Abatement costs” means the reasonably estimated costs incurred by the District to abate graffiti. (3) “Deputy Chief Financial Officer” means the Deputy Chief Financial Officer for t…

Graffiti is a nuisance and the owner of the property on which the graffiti is located shall abate the graffiti or authorize the Mayor to abate the graffiti as provided for in § 42-3141.03.

(a)(1) Whenever the Mayor identifies graffiti, the Mayor shall notify the owner that there is graffiti on the property that must be abated. (2) The notification shall be provided by delivering a written notice to the property on which, or at which, the graffiti is located. The no…

If the owner does not reply as provided for in § 42-3141.03(b)(1), (b)(2), or (b)(3), the owner shall be deemed to have authorized the Mayor to abate the graffiti. The Mayor may then abate the graffiti as if the owner had provided authorization under § 42-3141.03(b)(2).

(a) If an owner elects to abate the graffiti and the graffiti has not been abated by the date stated on the notice, the Mayor may issue a notice of violation for failure to comply with § 42-3141.02. (b)(1) The notice of violation shall be served on the owner, or the building supe…

(a) An owner who has received a notice of violation shall answer within 5 days after service of the notice of violation. At the time that an owner answers the notice of violation, the owner may request a hearing on the allegations set forth in the notice of violation. If the owne…

(a) If a default judgment is issued under § 42-3141.06 or if, after a hearing, the Office of Administrative Hearings finds the owner responsible for the violation set forth in the notice of violation, the District may abate the graffiti and the owner (not the owner’s agent) shall…

(a)(1) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Graffiti Abatement Fund (“Fund”), into which shall be deposited: (A) All fines, penalties, interest, charges and costs, including abatement costs, assessed and collected pursuant to this chapter; (B) Any funds in the Graffiti T…

(a)(1) The amount to be paid under a notice of violation and any other charges, expenses, costs, including abatement costs, penalties, and interest shall be a continuing and perpetual lien in favor of the District upon all real and personal property belonging to a person named in…

(a) If the Mayor provides a paint voucher to an owner to abate graffiti at a particular property, the Mayor is not required to provide another paint voucher to abate graffiti at that property for the 12-month period following the date on which the paint voucher was provided. (b) …

(a) The Office of Administrative Hearings, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules to implement the provisions of § 42-3141.06. (b) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules to implem…

For the purposes of this subchapter the term: (1) “Abandoned property” means: (A) A structure: (i) That is unoccupied by an owner or a tenant; and (ii) On which the real property tax imposed by § 47-811 has not been paid in 18 months; (B) A vacant lot on which the real property t…

(a) The Mayor may acquire abandoned property or deteriorated property for the public purpose of eliminating slum and blight: (1) Pursuant to §§ 16-1311 through 16-1321; (2) Through gift or donation; (3) By assignment; or (4) Through voluntary sale by the owner. (b) The Mayor may …

(a) The Mayor may dispose of abandoned or deteriorated property acquired under § 42-3171.02, or acquired by any other means, including property the Mayor has altered or improved, through a competitive process or through a negotiated sale; provided, that: (1) Before disposition of…

If an occupant or tenant is displaced by the acquisition, development, redevelopment, or disposition of an abandoned or deteriorated property under this subchapter, the Mayor shall offer to the owner or tenant assistance under § 6-331.01; § 6-333.01; or § 6-333.02.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development. (2) “Deteriorated structure” means a structure that: (A) Is unoccupied; (B) The Mayor has determined: (i) Constitutes a threat to the public health, safety, …

(a) The Mayor may determine whether any structure in the District of Columbia is a deteriorated structure. (b) The Mayor may demolish or enclose a deteriorated structure if: (1) The Mayor takes the actions required by §§ 42-3173.03 and 42-3173.04; (2) A notice of initial determin…

(a) Prior to posting, mailing, publishing, or filing a notice of initial determination of a deteriorated structure under § 42-3173.05(b), the Mayor shall request from the Department an analysis of the cost of rehabilitating the structure and the feasibility and likelihood that th…

(a) Prior to posting, mailing, publishing, or filing a notice of initial determination under § 42-3173.05(b), the Mayor shall file with the Historic Preservation Review Board a notice which shall include the following information: (1) The address of the deteriorated structure or,…

(a) If the Mayor determines that a structure is a deteriorated structure, the Mayor shall prepare a notice of initial determination which shall include the following information: (1) The address of the deteriorated structure or, if the address is not available or does not adequat…

Interested parties shall have 30 days after the mailing or publication of the notice under § 42-3173.05, whichever is later, to take sufficient action.

(a)(1) If sufficient action has not been taken within the 30-day period of § 42-3173.06, the Mayor shall prepare a notice of final determination. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Mayor may revoke the notice of initial determination or hold in abeyance fur…

(a) If a petition for review is not filed under § 42-3173.09 within the time period specified in § 42-3173.09, the Mayor shall demolish or enclose the deteriorated structure within 120 days after the notice of final determination has been mailed or filed, whichever is earlier. (b…

(a) Within 30 days after the date of the mailing of the notice of final determination under § 42-3173.07, an interested party may file a petition for review in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia challenging the final determination. (b) If a petition has been filed und…

(a) Within 120 days after a deteriorated structure is enclosed or demolished under this subchapter, the Mayor shall determine the total costs incurred by the District to bring about the demolition or enclosure. The total costs shall: (1) Include all reasonable costs, including ad…

(a) Amounts collected by the District of Columbia under this subchapter shall be deposited into the fund established by § 42-3131.01(b)(1). (b) Amounts in the fund established by § 42-3131.01(b)(1), may be used to pay the costs incurred by the District to demolish or enclose a st…

The remedies set forth in this subchapter shall be cumulative and not exclusive.

When real estate is leased for a certain term no notice to quit shall be necessary, but the landlord shall be entitled to the possession, without such notice, immediately upon the expiration of the term.

A tenancy from month to month, or from quarter to quarter, may be terminated by a 30 days notice in writing from the landlord to the tenant to quit, or by such a notice from the tenant to the landlord of his intention to quit, said notice to expire, in either case, on the day of …

A tenancy at will may be terminated by 30 days notice in writing by either landlord or tenant.

A tenancy by sufferance may be terminated at any time by a notice in writing from the landlord to the tenant to quit the premises leased, or by such notice from the tenant to the landlord of his intention to quit on the 30th day after the day of the service of the notice. If such…

Neither landlord nor tenant, after giving notice as aforesaid, shall be entitled to recall the notice so given without the consent of the other party, but after the expiration of the notice given by the tenant as aforesaid the landlord shall be entitled to the possession as if he…

Every notice to the tenant to quit shall be served in English and Spanish upon him personally, if he can be found, and if he can not be found it shall be sufficient service of said notice to deliver the same to some person of proper age upon the premises, and in the absence of su…

If the tenant, after having given notice of his intention to quit as aforesaid, shall refuse, without reasonable excuse, to surrender possession according to such notice, he shall be liable to the landlord for rent at double the rate of rent payable according to the terms of tena…

Nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the parties to a lease, by agreement in writing, from substituting a longer or shorter notice to quit than is above provided or to waive all such notice.

Whenever real and personal property are leased together, as, for example, a house with furniture contained therein, the landlord, either in an action of ejectment or in the summary proceeding for possession, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, may have a judgment f…

Whenever a lease for any definite term shall expire, or any tenancy shall be terminated by notice as aforesaid, and the tenant shall fail or refuse to surrender possession of the leased premises, the landlord may bring an action of ejectment to recover possession in the Superior …

In either case the landlord may join with his claim for recovery of the possession of the leased premises a claim for all arrears of rent accrued to the termination of the tenancy, and, when the tenant has given the notice, for double rent from the termination of the tenancy to t…

If actions be brought separately for arrears of rent and for the possession, they may be afterwards consolidated and 1 judgment rendered in them for the possession and also for the rent.

The landlord shall have a tacit lien for his rent upon such of the tenant’s personal chattels, on the premises, as are subject to execution for debt, to commence with the tenancy and continue for 3 months after the rent is due and until the termination of any action for such rent…

The said lien may be enforced: (1) By attachment, to be issued upon affidavit that the rent is due and unpaid; or, if it be not due, that the defendant is about to remove or sell some part of said chattels; (2) By judgment against the tenant and execution, to be levied on said ch…

Such attachment may be issued in any action for the recovery of the possession of the leased premises by the landlord, in which the rent in arrear, or double rent, or both, shall be claimed as aforesaid, and it shall be lawful for any officer to whom the writ of attachment shall …