Title 22 — Criminal Offenses and Penalties.
74 chapters · 582 sections in this title.
D.C. Code § 22-101 Definition and penalty
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D.C. Code § 22-201 Definition and penalty
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D.C. Code § 22-301 Definition and penalty
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Whoever shall maliciously burn or attempt to burn any dwelling, or house, barn, or stable adjoining thereto, or any store, barn, or outhouse, or any shop, office, stable, store, warehouse, or any other building, or any steamboat, vessel, canal boat, or other watercraft, or any ra…
D.C. Code § 22-302 Burning one’s own property with intent to defraud or injure another
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Whoever maliciously burns or sets fire to any dwelling, shop, barn, stable, store, or warehouse or other building, or any steamboat, vessel, canal boat, or other watercraft, or any goods, wares, or merchandise, the same being his own property, in whole or in part, with intent to …
D.C. Code § 22-303 Malicious burning, destruction, or injury of another’s property
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Whoever maliciously injures or breaks or destroys, or attempts to injure or break or destroy, by fire or otherwise, any public or private property, whether real or personal, not his or her own, of the value of $1,000 or more, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in §…
D.C. Code § 22-304 Malicious burning of fences, woods, crops
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D.C. Code § 22-401 Assault with intent to kill, rob, or poison, or to commit first degree sexual abuse, second degree sexual abuse or child sexual abuse
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Every person convicted of any assault with intent to kill or to commit first degree sexual abuse, second degree sexual abuse, or child sexual abuse, or to commit robbery, or mingling poison with food, drink, or medicine with intent to kill, or wilfully poisoning any well, spring,…
D.C. Code § 22-402 Assault with intent to commit mayhem or with dangerous weapon
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Every person convicted of an assault with intent to commit mayhem, or of an assault with a dangerous weapon, shall be sentenced to imprisonment for not more than 10 years. In addition to any other penalty provided under this section, a person may be fined an amount not more than …
D.C. Code § 22-403 Assault with intent to commit any other offense
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Whoever assaults another with intent to commit any other offense which may be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary shall be imprisoned not more than 5 years. In addition to any other penalty provided under this section, a person may be fined an amount not more than the am…
D.C. Code § 22-404 Assault or threatened assault in a menacing manner; stalking
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(a)(1) Whoever unlawfully assaults, or threatens another in a menacing manner, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or be imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both. (2) Whoever unlawfully assaults, or threatens another in a menacing manner, and inten…
D.C. Code § 22-404.01 Aggravated assault
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(a) A person commits the offense of aggravated assault if: (1) By any means, that person knowingly or purposely causes serious bodily injury to another person; or (2) Under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life, that person intentionally or knowingly engage…
D.C. Code § 22-404.02 Assault on a public vehicle inspection officer
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(a) A person commits the offense of assault on a public vehicle inspection officer if that person assaults, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with a public vehicle inspection officer while that officer is engaged in or on account of the performance of his or her official duties…
D.C. Code § 22-404.03 Aggravated assault on a public vehicle inspection officer
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(a) A person commits the offense of aggravated assault on a public vehicle inspection officer if that person assaults, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with a public vehicle inspection officer while that officer is engaged in or on account of the performance of his or her offi…
D.C. Code § 22-405 Assault on member of police force, campus or university special police, or fire department
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(a) For the purposes of this section, the term “law enforcement officer” means any officer or member of any police force operating and authorized to act in the District of Columbia, including any reserve officer or designated civilian employee of the Metropolitan Police Departmen…
D.C. Code § 22-406 Mayhem or maliciously disfiguring
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Every person convicted of mayhem or of maliciously disfiguring another shall be imprisoned for not more than 10 years. In addition to any other penalty provided under this section, a person may be fined an amount not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01.
D.C. Code § 22-407 Threats to do bodily harm
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Whoever is convicted in the District of threats to do bodily harm shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, in addition thereto, or in lieu thereof, may be required to give bond to keep the peace for a pe…
D.C. Code § 22-408 Penalty for assaulting, beating, or fighting on account of money won by gaming
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D.C. Code § 22-501 Bigamy
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(a) Whoever, having a spouse or domestic partner living, marries or enters a domestic partnership with another shall be deemed guilty of bigamy, and on conviction thereof shall suffer imprisonment for not less than 2 nor more than 7 years; provided, that this section shall not ap…
D.C. Code § 22-601 Breaking and entering vending machines and similar devices
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Whoever in the District of Columbia breaks open, opens, or enters, without right, any parking meter, coin telephone, vending machine dispensing goods or services, money changer, or any other device designed to receive currency, with intent to carry away any part of such device or…
D.C. Code § 22-701 Definition and penalty
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D.C. Code § 22-702 Offering or receiving money, property, or valuable consideration to procure office or promotion from Council
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D.C. Code § 22-703 Obstructing justice
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D.C. Code § 22-704 Corrupt influence; officials
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(a) Whosoever corruptly, directly or indirectly, gives any money, or other bribe, present, reward, promise, contract, obligation, or security for the payment of any money, present, reward, or thing of value to any ministerial, administrative, executive, or judicial officer of the…
D.C. Code § 22-711 Definitions
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For the purposes of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Court of the District of Columbia” means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. (2) “Juror” means any grand, petit, or other juror, or any person selected or summoned as a pr…
D.C. Code § 22-712 Prohibited acts; penalty
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(a) A person commits the offense of bribery if that person: (1) Corruptly offers, gives, or agrees to give anything of value, directly or indirectly, to a public servant; or (2) Corruptly solicits, demands, accepts, or agrees to accept anything of value, directly or indirectly, a…
D.C. Code § 22-713 Bribery of witness; penalty
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(a) A person commits the offense of bribery of a witness if that person: (1) Corruptly offers, gives, or agrees to give to another person; or (2) Corruptly solicits, demands, accepts, or agrees to accept from another person; anything of value in return for an agreement or underst…
D.C. Code § 22-721 Definitions
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For the purpose of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Court of the District of Columbia” means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia or the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. (2) “Criminal investigator” means an individual authorized by the Mayor or the Mayor’s designat…
D.C. Code § 22-722 Prohibited acts; penalty
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(a) A person commits the offense of obstruction of justice if that person: (1) Knowingly uses intimidation or physical force, threatens or corruptly persuades another person, or by threatening letter or communication, endeavors to influence, intimidate, or impede a juror in the d…
D.C. Code § 22-723 Tampering with physical evidence; penalty
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(a) A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if, knowing or having reason to believe an official proceeding has begun or knowing that an official proceeding is likely to be instituted, that person alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, or removes a record,…
D.C. Code § 22-801 Definition and penalty
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(a) Whoever shall, either in the nighttime or in the daytime, break and enter, or enter without breaking, any dwelling, or room used as a sleeping apartment in any building, with intent to break and carry away any part thereof, or any fixture or other thing attached to or connect…
D.C. Code § 22-811 Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
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(a) It is unlawful for an adult, being 4 or more years older than a minor, to invite, solicit, recruit, assist, support, cause, encourage, enable, induce, advise, incite, facilitate, permit, or allow the minor to: (1) Be truant from school; (2) Possess or consume alcohol or, with…
D.C. Code § 22-851 Protection of District public officials
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(a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1) “Family member” means an individual to whom the official or employee of the District of Columbia is related by blood, legal custody, marriage, domestic partnership, having a child in common, the sharing of a mutual residence, or…
D.C. Code § 22-861 Harassing, interfering with, injuring, or obstructing a police animal
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(a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1) “Police animal” means a dog, horse, or other animal used by a law enforcement agency, correctional facility, police department, fire department, or search and rescue unit or agency for the purpose of aiding in the detection of c…
D.C. Code § 22-901 Definitions
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For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Counterfeit mark” means: (A) Any unauthorized reproduction or copy of intellectual property; or (B) Intellectual property affixed to any item knowingly sold, offered for sale, manufactured, or distributed, or identifying services o…
D.C. Code § 22-902 Trademark counterfeiting
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(a) A person commits the offense of counterfeiting if such person willfully manufactures, advertises, distributes, offers for sale, sells, or possesses with intent to sell or distribute any items, or services bearing or identified by a counterfeit mark. There shall be a rebuttabl…
D.C. Code § 22-931 Short title
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This chapter may be cited as the “Criminal Abuse and Neglect of Vulnerable Adults Act of 2000”.
D.C. Code § 22-932 Definitions
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For the purpose of this chapter “vulnerable adult” means a person 18 years of age or older who has a physical or mental condition which substantially impairs the person from adequately providing for his or her own care or protection.
D.C. Code § 22-933 Criminal abuse of a vulnerable adult
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A person is guilty of criminal abuse of a vulnerable adult if that person intentionally or knowingly: (1) Inflicts or threatens to inflict physical pain or injury by hitting, slapping, kicking, pinching, biting, pulling hair or other corporal means; (2) Uses repeated or malicious…
D.C. Code § 22-934 Criminal negligence
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A person who knowingly, willfully or through a wanton, reckless or willful indifference fails to discharge a duty to provide care and services necessary to maintain the physical and mental health of a vulnerable adult, including but not limited to providing adequate food, clothin…
D.C. Code § 22-935 Exception
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A person shall not be considered to commit an offense of abuse or neglect under this chapter for the sole reason that he provides or permits to be provided treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone in accordance with a religious method of healing, in lieu of medical treat…
D.C. Code § 22-936 Penalties
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(a) A person who commits the offense of criminal abuse or criminal neglect of a vulnerable person shall be subject to a fine of not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01, imprisoned for not more than 180 days, or both. (b) A person who commits the offense of criminal abu…
D.C. Code § 22-951 Criminal street gangs
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(a)(1) It is unlawful for a person to solicit, invite, recruit, encourage, or otherwise cause, or attempt to cause, another individual to become a member of, remain in, or actively participate in what the person knows to be a criminal street gang. (2) A person convicted of a viol…
D.C. Code § 22-1001 Definitions and penalties
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(a)(1) Whoever knowingly overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks, tortures, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance, cruelly chains, cruelly beats or mutilates, any animal, or knowingly causes or procures any animal to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when…
D.C. Code § 22-1002 Other cruelties to animals
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Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or custody of any animal, who cruelly drives or works the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandons the same, or who carries the same, or causes the same to be carried, in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessar…
D.C. Code § 22-1002.01 Reporting requirements
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(a)(1) Any law enforcement or child or protective services employee who knows of or has reasonable cause to suspect an animal has been the victim of cruelty, abandonment, or neglect, or observes an animal at the home of a person reasonably suspected of child, adult, or animal abu…
D.C. Code § 22-1003 Rest, water and feeding for animals transported by railroad company
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No railroad company, in the carrying or transportation of animals, shall permit the same to be confined in cars for a longer period than 24 hours, without unloading the same, for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of at least 5 consecutive hours, unless prevented from so unlo…
D.C. Code § 22-1004 Arrests without warrant authorized; notice to owner
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(a) Any person found violating the laws in relation to cruelty to animals may be arrested and held without a warrant, in the manner provided by § 44-1505 and the person making an arrest, with or without a warrant, shall use reasonable diligence to give notice thereof to the owner…
D.C. Code § 22-1005 Issuance of search warrants
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When complaint is made by any humane officer of the Washington Humane Society on oath or affirmation, to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant believes, and has reasonable cause to believe, that the laws in relation to cruelty to anim…
D.C. Code § 22-1006 Prosecution of offenders; disposition of fines
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It shall be the duty of all marshals, deputy marshals, police officers, or any humane officer of the Washington Humane Society, to prosecute all violations of the provisions of §§ 22-1001 to 22-1009 and §§ 22-1011, 22-1013, and 22-1014, which shall come to their notice or knowled…
D.C. Code § 22-1006.01 Penalty for engaging in animal fighting
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(a) Any person who: (1) organizes, sponsors, conducts, stages, promotes, is employed at, collects an admission fee for, or bets or wagers any money or other valuable consideration on the outcome of an exhibition between two or more animals of fighting, baiting, or causing injury …