Title 7 — Human Health Care and Safety.

(a) No person shall possess ammunition in the District of Columbia unless: (1) He is a licensed dealer pursuant to subchapter IV of this unit; (2) He is an officer, agent, or employee of the District of Columbia or the United States of America, on duty and acting within the scope…

(a) No firearm, destructive device, or ammunition shall be security for, or be taken or received by way of any mortgage, deposit, pledge, or pawn. (b) No person may loan, borrow, give, or rent to or from another person, any firearm, destructive device, or ammunition.

(a) It shall be the policy of the District of Columbia that each registrant should keep any firearm in his or her possession unloaded and either disassembled or secured by a trigger lock, gun safe, locked box, or other secure device. (b) No person shall store or keep any firearm …

Any person operating a firing range in the District, shall in addition to any other requirement imposed by law, register with the Chief, on a form prescribed by him, which shall include the business name of the range, the location, the names and home addresses of the owners and p…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person purchasing any firearm or ammunition, or applying for any registration certificate or dealer’s license under this unit, or in giving any information pursuant to the requirements of this unit, to knowingly give false information or offer fal…

(a) If a person or organization within the District voluntarily and peaceably delivers and abandons to the Chief any firearm, destructive device or ammunition at any time, such delivery shall preclude the arrest and prosecution of such person on a charge of violating any provisio…

(a) Except as provided in §§ 7-2502.05, 7-2502.08, 7-2507.02, 7-2508.07, and subchapter IX of this chapter [§ 7-2509.01 et seq.], any person convicted of a violation of any provision of this unit shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned for …

Any conveyance in which a person or persons transport, possess, or conceal any firearm, as that term is defined in § 7-2501.01, or in any manner use to facilitate a violation of § 7-2502.02 or § 22-4503 or § 22-4504, is subject to forfeiture pursuant to the standards and procedur…

The Chief shall carry on a suitable publicity program designed to inform the citizens of the District of the provisions of this unit and the rights and obligations created by it.

Nothing in this unit shall be construed, or applied to necessarily require, or excuse noncompliance with any provision of any federal law. This unit and the penalties prescribed in § 7-2507.06, for violations of this unit, shall not supersede but shall supplement all statutes of …

The provisions of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act (§ 2-501 et seq.) shall apply to each proceeding, decision, or other administrative action specified in this unit, unless otherwise specifically provided.

If any provision of this unit or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this unit and the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

The Chief, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules to implement the provisions of this unit.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Correctional facility” means any building or group of buildings and concomitant services operated as a single management unit by the Department of Corrections, or a similar federal, state, county, or local government agency, or …

(a) A gun offender shall register with the Chief for a period of 2 years, unless a longer period is required by § 7-2508.03 or § 7-2508.07(b). The offender shall register: (1) Within 48 hours (not including a Saturday, Sunday, legal holiday, or day on which the District of Columb…

A gun offender shall comply with the registration and verification provisions required by § 7-2508.02 for a period beginning when he or she is sentenced for a gun offense and continuing until 2 years after the expiration of any time being served on probation, parole, supervised r…

(a) Upon a defendant’s conviction for a gun offense, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia (“Court”) shall enter an order certifying that the defendant is a gun offender. The Court shall: (1) Advise the gun offender of his or her duties under this subchapter; (2) Order t…

(a) Gun offender registration information shall not be made available except as authorized under subsection (b) of this section. No gun offender registration information shall be available as a public record under § 2-532. (b) The Chief is authorized to make gun offender registra…

The Chief, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules and establish such forms as are necessary to implement the provisions of this subchapter.

(a) Any knowing violation by a gun offender of this subchapter or of rules or regulations established pursuant to this subchapter, including knowingly failing to register, verify, or update information in the manner and within the time periods provided for in this subchapter, sha…

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Child” means a person under 18 years of age. (2) “Concealed pistol” means a loaded or unloaded pistol carried on or about a person entirely hidden from view of the public, or carried on or about a person in a vehicle in such a w…

(a) A person who submits an application pursuant to § 22-4506 shall certify and demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Chief that he or she: (1) Is at least 21 years of age; (2) Meets all of the requirements for a person registering a firearm pursuant to this unit, and has obtain…

(a) A license shall expire no later than 2 years after the date of issuance unless revoked by the Chief or renewed pursuant to this subchapter. (b)(1) A license shall be eligible for renewal if: (A) The licensee continues to meet the requirements of § 22-4506 and § 7-2509.02, exc…

(a) A licensee shall comply with all limits and conditions of the license. (b) A licensee shall notify the Chief in writing: (1) Immediately upon discovery of the loss, theft, or destruction of the license and include the circumstances of the loss, theft, or destruction, if known…

(a)(1) The Chief may limit or revoke a license upon a finding that the licensee no longer meets the requirements of § 22-4506 and this subchapter, or as a penalty as specified in this unit. (2) The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, the Attorney General for the …

(a) A licensee shall not carry a pistol while he or she is consuming alcohol. (b) A licensee shall not carry a pistol while impaired. (c) Upon establishing reasonable suspicion that a licensee has been consuming drugs or alcohol, a licensee’s failure to submit to one or more fiel…

(a) No person holding a license shall carry a pistol in the following locations or under the following circumstances: (1) A building or office occupied by the District of Columbia, its agencies, or instrumentalities; (2) The building and grounds, including any adjacent parking lo…

(a) There is established a Concealed Pistol Licensing Review Board (“Board”) for the purpose of hearing appeals from: (1) A denial of an application or renewal application for a license to carry a concealed pistol in the District pursuant to this unit; (2) A summary suspension or…

(a) Any record regarding a person who has applied for, received, or had revoked a license shall not be made available as a public record under § 2-532; provided, that aggregate data, excluding any personal identifying information, may be used for the purposes of the public report…

(a)(1) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a person convicted of a violation of a provision of this subchapter, or rules or regulations issued under the authority of this subchapter, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, or imprisoned for…

The Chief of the MPD, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [§ 2-501 et seq.], shall issue rules to implement the provisions of D.C. Law 20-279, including rules: (1) To establish criteria for determining when an applicant has, pursuant to section 6 of the Pistols and O…

For the purposes of this unit, the term: (1) “Dealer” means: (A) Any person engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail; (B) Any person engaged in the business of repairing firearms or of making or fitting special barrels, stocks, or trigger mechanisms to f…

(a) Any manufacturer, importer, or dealer of a firearm who can be shown by a preponderance of the evidence to have knowingly and willfully engaged in the illegal sale of a firearm shall be held strictly liable in tort, without regard to fault and without regard to either: (1) an …

(a) No firearm originally distributed to a law enforcement agency or a law enforcement officer shall provide the basis for liability under this unit. (b) No action may be brought pursuant to this unit by a person who can be shown by a preponderance of the evidence to have committ…

(a) There is established a fund to be known as the Firearms Bounty Fund (“Fund”) to be administered by the Metropolitan Police Department. The Fund shall be operated as a proprietary fund and shall consist of monies appropriated to the Fund, federal grants to the Fund, or private…

For the purposes of this unit, the term: (1) “Assault weapon” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 7-2501.01(3A). (2) “Handgun” means a firearm with a barrel less than 12 inches in length at the time of manufacture. (3) “Dealer” and “importer” shall have the same meaning …

Any manufacturer, importer, or dealer of an assault weapon or machine gun shall be held strictly liable in tort, without regard to fault or proof of defect, for all direct and consequential damages that arise from bodily injury or death if the bodily injury or death proximately r…

(a) No assault weapon originally distributed to a law enforcement agency or a law enforcement officer shall provide the basis for liability under this unit. (b) No action may be brought pursuant to this unit by a person injured by an assault weapon while committing a crime. (c) T…

Any physician in the District of Columbia, including persons licensed under Chapter 12 of Title 3, having reasonable cause to believe that a person brought to him or coming before him for examination, care, or treatment has suffered injury caused by a firearm, whether self-inflic…

An oral report shall be made immediately by telephone or otherwise, and followed as soon thereafter as possible by a report in writing, to the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia. Such reports shall contain, if readily available, the name, address, and age …

Any person, hospital, or institution participating in good faith in the making of a report pursuant to this chapter shall have immunity from any liability, civil or criminal, that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the making of such report. Any such participa…

(a) The regulations now or hereafter adopted or promulgated by the Mayor of the District of Columbia or the Council of the District of Columbia for the protection of health, including the penalty provisions of such regulations, shall extend and apply to all restaurants, coffee sh…

The purpose of this chapter is to regulate the sale, lease, rental, installation, service, repair, maintenance, and use of security or fire alarm systems and components thereof, and to license security or fire alarm dealers and agents within the boundaries of the District of Colu…

As used in this chapter, the term: (1) “Alarm agent” means any employee of an alarm dealer whose duties include the installation, inspection, maintenance, service, or repair of alarm systems. (2) “Central alarm station” means a facility operated by an alarm dealer for the purpose…

Except for signaling devices jointly approved by the District of Columbia Fire Department and the Office on Aging under the Life Safety System, no person shall transmit or cause to be transmitted a prerecorded message to report any fire, burglary, holdup, or other emergency direc…

(a) No person shall engage in the business of an alarm dealer within the boundaries of the District of Columbia without first obtaining from the Mayor a license to be known as an alarm dealer’s license. Such license shall be required in addition to any other license or registrati…

(a) No person shall act as an alarm agent within the boundaries of the District of Columbia without first obtaining a license to be known as an alarm agent’s license. A person to whom an alarm dealer’s license has been issued may obtain an alarm agent’s license without payment of…

(a) Alarm dealers shall maintain in a secure and confidential manner records of all sales, leases, rentals, or installations of alarm systems and of service calls for alarm systems. Such records shall include the name of the alarm user, the address of the premises at which the al…

(a) An alarm system user shall not cause or permit any false alarm. (b) It shall be the responsibility of alarm users to instruct any employees or others who may have occasion to activate an alarm that alarm systems are to be activated only in emergency situations to summon an im…

(a) No person shall install or maintain an audible alarm system which creates a sound capable of being mistakenly identified as that of an emergency vehicle siren or a civil defense warning siren. (b) The Mayor is authorized to deactivate any exterior audible alarm system which c…