District of Columbia Code
Title 42 - Real Property
Chapter 35 - Rental Housing Generally

§ 42–3502.01. Continuation of Rental Housing Commission; composition; appointment; qualifications; compensation; removal - (a) The Rental Housing Commission is established as an independent...

§ 42–3502.01a. Powers and duties of the Chairperson of the Rental Housing Commission - The Rental Housing Commission shall be headed by a Chairperson...

§ 42–3502.02. Powers and duties of Rental Housing Commission - (a) The Rental Housing Commission shall: (1) Possess sole authority...

§ 42–3502.02a. Immunity for official acts - Members and staff of the Rental Housing Commission shall not...

§ 42–3502.02b. Independence of the Rental Housing Commission; transfer provisions - (a)(1) Nothing in this chapter may be construed as granting...

§ 42–3502.03. Rental Accommodations Division of the Department of Housing and Community Development - There is established within the Department of Housing and Community...

§ 42–3502.03a. Rent Administrator — Appointment and removal - (a) The Rent Administrator shall be appointed by the Mayor...

§ 42–3502.03b. Rent Administrator — Qualifications and compensation - The Rent Administrator shall: (1) Be admitted to practice before...

§ 42–3502.03c. Public Accessible Rent Control Housing Database - (a) The Office of the Tenant Advocate ("OTA"), with the...

§ 42–3502.03d. Housing provider online filing requirements - Upon completion of the publicly accessible rent control housing database...

§ 42–3502.03e. Rental Housing Registration Fund - (a) There is established as a special fund the Rental...

§ 42–3502.04. Duties of the Rent Administrator - (a) The Rent Administrator shall draft rules and procedures for...

§ 42–3502.04a. Rental Conversion and Sale Division of the Department of Housing and Community Development Rental Conversion and Sale Administrator - (a) There is established within the Department of Housing and...

§ 42–3502.04b. Transfer of functions of the Rental Accommodations and Conversion Division of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to the Department of Housing and Community Development - All positions, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations,...

§ 42–3502.04c. Housing Regulation Administration; Housing Regulation Administrator - (a) There is established within the Department of Housing and...

§ 42–3502.05. Registration and coverage - (a) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this section,...

§ 42–3502.06. Rent ceilings abolished - (a) Rent ceilings are abolished, except that the housing provider...

§ 42–3502.07. Adjustments in rent ceiling - Repealed. (July 17, 1985, D.C. Law 6-10, § 207, 32...

§ 42–3502.08. Increases above base rent - (a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the rent for...

§ 42–3502.09. Rent charged upon termination of exemption and for newly covered rental units - (a) Upon the expiration or termination of an exemption claimed...

§ 42–3502.10. Petitions for capital improvements - (a) On petition by the housing provider, the Rent Administrator...

§ 42–3502.11. Services and facilities - If the Rent Administrator determines that the related services or...

§ 42–3502.11a. Mandatory fees prohibited - (a) A housing provider shall not impose on a tenant...

§ 42–3502.12. Hardship petition - (a) Where an election has been made under § 42-3502.06(c)...

§ 42–3502.13. Vacant accommodation - (a) When a tenant vacates a rental unit on the...

§ 42–3502.14. Substantial rehabilitation - (a) If the Rent Administrator determines that (1) a rental...

§ 42–3502.15. Voluntary agreement - (a) Seventy percent or more of the tenants of a...

§ 42–3502.15a. Voluntary agreement moratorium - (a) Notwithstanding the requirements of § 42-3502.15, tenants and housing...

§ 42–3502.16. Adjustment procedure - (a) The Rent Administrator shall consider adjustments allowed by §§...

§ 42–3502.16a. Tenant representation by tenant organization - (a) A tenant organization shall have standing to assert a...

§ 42–3502.17. Security deposit - (a) No person shall demand or receive a security deposit...

§ 42–3502.18. Remedy - The Rental Housing Commission, Rent Administrator, or any affected housing...

§ 42–3502.19. Judicial review - Any person or class of persons aggrieved by a decision...

§ 42–3502.20. Report of Mayor - (a) No later than October 1, 1988, the Mayor shall...

§ 42–3502.21. Certificate of assurance - (a) Upon the issuance of any building permit for a...

§ 42–3502.21a. Certificate of assurance moratorium - *NOTE: This section was created by temporary legislation that will...

§ 42–3502.22. Disclosure to tenants - (a) At the written request of a tenant not more...

§ 42–3502.22a. Forms to include definition of the term rent charged - The definition of the term "rent charged" shall be included...

§ 42–3502.23. Addition to Comprehensive Housing Strategy report - The Mayor shall include in the reports to the Council...

§ 42–3502.24. Elderly tenants and tenants with disabilities - (a) Notwithstanding § 42-3502.08(h), an adjustment in the amount of...

Subchapter III - Tenant Assistance Program

§ 42–3503.01. Definitions - For the purpose of this subchapter, the term: (1) “Annual...

§ 42–3503.02. Establishment of Tenant Assistance Program; designation of monies - (a) For the purpose of aiding lower-income families in obtaining...

§ 42–3503.03. Authorization to enter into contracts for tenant assistance payments; determination of eligibility; procedure upon determination of eligibility - (a) The Mayor may enter into contracts to make rental...

§ 42–3503.04. Tenant assistance payments - (a) Basic formula. — (1) The amount of the tenant...

§ 42–3503.05. Approval and maintenance of rental units; obligations of families - (a) Rental units which the Department determines are decent, safe,...

§ 42–3503.06. Continued eligibility - Sixty days prior to the expiration of any tenant assistance...

§ 42–3503.07. Termination of eligibility - (a) If, at any time, a tenant receiving tenant assistance...

§ 42–3503.08. Tax exemption - All monies received by any tenant through the Tenant Assistance...

Subchapter IV - Revenue

§ 42–3504.01. Rental unit fee - (a)(1) Each housing provider not exempt from rental control pursuant...

§ 42–3504.02. Rental Unit Fee Fund - (a) There is established as a special fund the Rental...

Subchapter V - Evictions; Retaliatory Action; and Other Matters

§ 42–3505.01. Evictions - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by emergency legislation that will...

§ 42–3505.01a. Storage and disposal of tenants' personal property upon eviction - (a) A housing provider shall not remove an evicted tenant's...

§ 42–3505.02. Retaliatory action - (a) No housing provider shall take any retaliatory action against...

§ 42–3505.03. Conciliation and arbitration service - (a) There is established a conciliation and arbitration service (“service”)...

§ 42–3505.04. Arbitration - (a) By mutual consent, the housing provider and tenant may...

§ 42–3505.05. Prohibition of discrimination against elderly tenants or families with children - (a) It is unlawful for a housing provider to discriminate...

§ 42–3505.06. Right of tenants to organize - (a) For purposes of this section, the term: (1) “CPI”...

§ 42–3505.07. Notice of lease termination by tenant who is a victim of an intrafamily offense - (a) For purposes of this section, the term “qualified third...

§ 42–3505.08. Victims of an intrafamily offense protection — Change locks and notice - (a) Upon the written request of a tenant who is...

§ 42–3505.09. Sealing of eviction court records - (a) The Superior Court of the District of Columbia ("Superior...

§ 42–3505.10. Tenant screening - (a) Before requesting any information or fees from a prospective...

Subchapter V-A - Payment of Rent Beyond 5 Days After Due Date

§ 42–3505.31. Authorized fees for the payment of rent beyond 5 days after the rent payment is due - (a) Pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, a housing...

Subchapter V-B - Other Housing Provider Actions During Tenancies

§ 42–3505.51. Access by housing provider to dwelling unit - (a) For the purposes of this section, the term: (1)...

§ 42–3505.52. Housing provider duty to mitigate damages after breach of the rental agreement by tenant - If a tenant refuses to take possession of a rental...

§ 42–3505.53. Notice of tenant's intent to vacate upon the expiration of an initial lease term - Any provision that requires a tenant to provide more than...

§ 42–3505.54. Notice of tenant's intent to vacate after the expiration of the signed lease term, renewal or extension term - (a) A residential tenancy from month-to-month may be terminated by...

§ 42–3505.55. Housing provider's consent before subletting - A housing provider may, in its sole and absolute discretion,...

Subchapter VI - Conversion or Demolition of Rental Housing for Hotels, Motels, or Inns

§ 42–3506.01. Conversion - Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall convert...

§ 42–3506.02. Demolition - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall...

Subchapter VII - Relocation Assistance for Tenants Displaced by Substantial Rehabilitation, Demolition, or Housing Discontinuance

§ 42–3507.01. Notice of right to assistance - No housing provider shall substantially rehabilitate, demolish, or discontinue any...

§ 42–3507.02. Eligibility assistance - Each housing provider commencing substantial rehabilitation, demolition, or housing discontinuance,...

§ 42–3507.03. Payments - (a) Until the Mayor establishes the amount of relocation assistance...

§ 42–3507.04. Relocation advisory services - Whenever a building in the District is converted from rental...

§ 42–3507.05. Tenant hot line - The Department of Buildings shall provide for the continuation of...

Subchapter VIII - New and Vacant Rental Housing and Distressed Property

§ 42–3508.01. Declaration of policy - In order to assist in stimulating the expansion of the...

§ 42–3508.02. Tax abatement for new or rehabilitated vacant rental housing - (a) There shall be an 80% reduction of the property...

§ 42–3508.03. Deferral or forgiveness of water and sewer fees for rehabilitated vacant rental housing - (a) Where vacant rental accommodations are being rehabilitated under this...

§ 42–3508.04. Distressed properties improvement program - (a) The Mayor may establish and administer a distressed property...

§ 42–3508.05. Distressed property improvement plan - (a) Upon petition by the housing provider, the Mayor may...

§ 42–3508.06. Incentives for development of single-room-occupancy housing - (a) The Mayor may provide tax abatements and deferral or...

Subchapter IX - Miscellaneous Provisions

§ 42–3509.01. Penalties - (a) Any person who knowingly (1) demands or receives any...

§ 42–3509.02. Attorney’s fees - The Rent Administrator, Rental Housing Commission, or a court of...

§ 42–3509.03. Supersedure - This chapter shall be considered to supersede the Rental Accommodations...

§ 42–3509.04. Service - *NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legislation that will...

§ 42–3509.07. Termination - All subchapters of this chapter, except subchapters III and V...

§ 42–3509.08. Inspection of rental housing - (a) Notwithstanding any other law or rule to the contrary,...

§ 42–3509.09. Restrictions on tobacco smoking. [Repealed] - Repealed. (July 17, 1985, D.C. Law 6-10, § 909, formerly...

§ 42–3509.10. Fee for reduction of units - (a) A housing provider who reduces the number of units...

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District of Columbia Code Title 42 - Real Property Chapter 35 - Rental Housing Generally

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