D.C. Code § 7-2507.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2507.04
§ 7-2507.04. False information; forgery or alteration.
Status: in_force

(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 false evidence of identity.
(b) It shall be unlawful for anyone to forge or alter any application, registration certificate, or dealer’s license submitted, retained or issued under this unit.
D.C. Code § 7-3004 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 30 / § 7-3004
§ 7-3004. Establishment of the Addiction Recovery Fund.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) There is established, as a nonlapsing, revolving fund, the Addiction Recovery Fund (“Fund”). Except as provided in subsection (a-1) of this section, the Fund shall be comprised of general revenue funds appropriated by a line item in the budget submitted pursuant to § 1-204.46 , and authorized by Congress in an appropriations act for the purpose of the Drug Treatment Choice Program.  The Mayor shall, subject to authorization by Congress in an appropriations act, deposit in the Fund any and all other funds received on behalf of the Fund for the purpose of the Drug Treatment Choice Program.
  (2) All funds shall be deposited into the Fund without regard to fiscal year limitation pursuant to an act of Congress. All funds deposited into the Fund shall not revert to the General Fund of the District of Columbia at the end of any fiscal year or at any other time, but shall be continually available for the purpose of the Drug Treatment Choice Program, subject to authorization by Congress in an appropriations act.
(a-1) There is established within the Fund a segregated account to be known as the ATR Account, into which shall be deposited the federal grant funds awarded to APRA for ATR, to be expended solely for the purposes of ATR, in accordance with federal requirements and regulations promulgated to implement this chapter.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (a-1) of this section, the Fund shall be used only for payments directly to treatment providers. The Fund shall be the sole source for payments to treatment providers under the Drug Treatment Choice Program. APRA shall administer the Drug Treatment Choice Program and the Fund from APRA’s appropriated operating budget.
(c) Within 18 months of July 18, 2000, APRA shall develop a plan to incorporate all APRA funding for substance abuse treatment services into the Fund. APRA may propose to continue then existing contracts and grants upon a finding that the Program would not serve the specific needs of a particular clientele or group.
(d) The plan developed by APRA pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be submitted by the Mayor to the Council for a 45-day period of review, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, legal holidays, and days of Council recess. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed plan, in whole or in part, by resolution within this 45-day review period, the proposed plan shall be deemed approved.
D.C. Code § 7-742.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-742.01
§ 7-742.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this subchapter , the term:
  (1) “CFBR” means the Cottage Food Business Registry within the Department of Health.
  (2) “Cottage food business” means a business that:
    (A) Produces or packages cottage food products in a residential kitchen;
    (B) Sells the cottage food products in accordance with § 7-742.02 and regulations adopted by the Department of Health; and
    (C) Repealed.
    (D) Has obtained a home occupancy permit from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs pursuant to section 203 of Title 11 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (11 DCMR Section 203).
  (2A) "Cottage food business identification number and certificate" means the unique identifier for tracking cottage food businesses and the certificate evidencing status as a cottage food business.
  (3) “Cottage food product” means a non-potentially hazardous food, as specified in regulations adopted by the Department of Health, that is sold to consumers, including through direct, retail, wholesale to licensed food establishments, and online sales, within the District of Columbia in accordance with § 7-742.02 and regulations adopted by the Department of Health.
  (4) “Department” means the Department of Health.
  (5) "Food establishment" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 48-102(5) .
D.C. Code § 7-1671.06h — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.06h
§ 7-1671.06h. Notice to ANCs and Councilmembers.
Status: in_force

(a) ABCA shall provide electronic notice to the Councilmember representing the ward where the establishment is or will be located and any affected ANC at least 45 calendar days prior to the approval of a location for a retailer.
(b) The ABC Board may, at the request of both an affected ANC and the applicant, extend the ANC's protest petition deadline set forth in subsection (a) of this section by up to an additional 30 calendar days for the sole purpose of allowing the ANC to vote on whether to support or protest the license application. The ABC Board may, on a motion of any party or on its own motion, also continue a hearing to permit an affected ANC to vote on a material issue in the hearing.
D.C. Code § 7-2302 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23 / § 7-2302
§ 7-2302. Establishment of program of public emergency preparedness; publication.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor may establish a program of public emergency preparedness that utilizes the services of all appropriate agencies (including the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency) and the program shall include, but not be limited to:
  (1) Development of a District of Columbia response plan which would:
    (A) Set forth a comprehensive and detailed District of Columbia state program for preparation against, and assistance following, emergencies and major disasters, including provisions for assistance to individuals, businesses, and affected designated subdivisions of the District of Columbia; and
    (B) Include provisions for: Appointment and training of appropriate staffs; formulation of necessary regulations and procedures; and conduct of required exercises;
  (2) Post public emergency evaluations;
  (3) Periodic review of programs; and
  (4) Coordination of federal and state preparedness programs.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the Mayor shall publish in the District of Columbia Register, for notice and comment, any program or plan for public emergency preparedness prepared pursuant to this chapter. The publication shall, at a minimum, state the subject matter of the program or plan and the specific manner in which a complete copy can be obtained or reviewed and commented upon prior to the transmittal of the plan or program to the Council of the District of Columbia.
(c) Any specific response plan, and any specific vulnerability assessment, either of which is intended to prevent or to mitigate an act of terrorism, as that term is defined in § 22-3152(1) , shall be exempt from the requirements in subsection (b) of this section.
(d) The Mayor shall review the District of Columbia response plan on an annual basis. Any revisions to the plan shall be published in the District of Columbia Register and forwarded to the Council pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
(e) Neither the District of Columbia, its independent agencies, employees, officers, or agents shall be held liable for damages for any actions taken within the scope of the individual’s employment or voluntary service to implement the provisions of the District of Columbia response plan, except in instances of gross negligence.
D.C. Code § 7-2341.17 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23B / § 7-2341.17
§ 7-2341.17. Hearings.
Status: in_force

(a) Except in the case of a summary suspension as provided in § 7-2341.16 , before the Mayor denies an application for initial or renewal licensure or certification, or suspends or revokes a license or certification, or imposes a civil fine, the Mayor shall give the person, or the owner or operator of the agency, vehicle, or facility, against whom the action is contemplated written notice of the contemplated action. The notice must inform the affected person or entity of the reason for the action and of the right to request a hearing.
(b) If requested, the hearing shall be conducted by the Office of Administrative Hearings.
D.C. Code § 7-2510.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2510.03
§ 7-2510.03. Final extreme risk protection orders.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Upon receipt of a petition filed pursuant § 7-2510.02 , the court shall order that a hearing be held to determine whether to issue a final extreme risk protection order against the respondent.
  (2) The initial hearing shall be held within 14 days after the date the petition was filed.
(b) (1) Personal service of the notice of hearing and petition shall be made upon the respondent prior to the hearing.
  (2) If the respondent is unable to be personally served, the court shall set a new hearing date and require additional attempts to accomplish personal service.
  (3) If the respondent is unable to be personally served after the court has set a new hearing date and required new attempts at service pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, the court may dismiss the petition without prejudice.
(c) If the court issues an ex parte extreme risk protection order pursuant to § 7-2510.04 , the ex parte extreme risk protection order shall be served concurrently with the notice of hearing and petition described in subsection (b)(1) of this section.
(d) Upon receipt of a petition filed under § 7-2510.02 , and for good cause shown, the court shall issue such orders as may be necessary to obtain any mental health records and other information relevant for the purposes of the petition. The order shall require the disclosure of records to the Office of the Attorney General so that it can conduct a search of the respondent's mental health records and report its findings to the court as required by this subsection. Before the hearing for a final extreme risk protection order, the court shall order that the Office of the Attorney General:
  (1) Conduct a reasonable search of all available records to determine whether the respondent owns any firearms or ammunition;
  (2) Conduct a reasonable search of all available records of the respondent's mental health;
  (3) Perform a national criminal history and firearms eligibility background check on the respondent; and
  (4) Submit its findings under this subsection to the court.
(e) In determining whether to issue a final extreme risk protection order pursuant to this section, the court shall consider any exhibits, affidavits, supporting documents, and all other relevant evidence, including:
  (1) Any history or pattern of threats of violence, or acts of violence, by the respondent directed toward themselves or others;
  (2) Any recent threats of violence, or acts of violence, by the respondent directed toward themselves or others;
  (3) The respondent's acquisition of any firearms, ammunition, or other deadly or dangerous weapons within one year before the filing of the petition;
  (4) The unlawful or reckless use, display, or brandishing of a firearm or other weapon by the respondent;
  (5) Respondent's criminal history;
  (6) Respondent's violation of a court order;
  (7) Evidence of the respondent experiencing a mental health crisis, or other dangerous mental health issues; and
  (8) Respondent's use of a controlled substance, as that term is defined in § 48-901.02(4) .
(f) The court shall, before issuing a final extreme risk protection order, examine any witnesses under oath.
(g) The court shall issue a final extreme risk protection order if the petitioner establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the respondent poses a significant danger of causing bodily injury to self or others by having possession or control of, purchasing, or receiving any firearm or ammunition.
(h) A final extreme risk protection order issued under this section shall state:
  (1) That the respondent is prohibited from having possession or control of, purchasing, or receiving any firearm, ammunition, registration certificate, license to carry a concealed pistol, or dealer's license for one year after the date and time the order was issued;
  (2) The date and time the order was issued;
  (3) The date and time the order will expire;
  (4) The grounds upon which the order was issued;
  (5) The procedures for the:
    (A) Renewal of a final extreme risk protection order pursuant to § 7-2510.06 ;
    (B) Surrender of firearms, ammunition, registration certificates, licenses to carry a concealed pistol, or dealer's licenses in the respondent's possession, control, or ownership pursuant to § 7-2510.07 ; and
    (C) Termination of a final extreme risk protection order pursuant to § 7-2510.08 ; and
  (6) That the respondent may seek the advice of an attorney as to any matter connected with this subchapter .
(i) A final extreme risk protection order issued pursuant to this section shall expire one year after the issuance of the order, unless the order is terminated pursuant to § 7-2510.08 before its expiration.
D.C. Code § 7-1304.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1304.08
§ 7-1304.08. Hearings closed to public; request for open hearing.
Status: in_force

Hearings shall be closed to the public unless the person with an intellectual disability, or his or her counsel, requests that a hearing be open to the public.
D.C. Code § 7-2508.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2508.06
§ 7-2508.06. Rules.
Status: in_force

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.
D.C. Code § 7-857.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8B-i / § 7-857.01
§ 7-857.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Critical congenital heart disease” means a group of heart defects that cause serious, life-threatening symptoms and require intervention within the first days or first year of life.
(2) “Health benefit plan” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 31-3301.01(20) .
(3) “Health insurer” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 31-3301.01(22) .
(4) “Hospital” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 44-501(a)(1) .
(5) “Maternity center” shall have the same meaning as provided in § 44-501(a)(2) .
(6) “Nurse-midwife” means a registered nurse certified pursuant to 17 DCMR § 5800 et seq.
(7) “Pulse oximetry” means the non-invasive procedure used to measure oxygen levels in the blood.
D.C. Code § 7-1721.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1721.01
§ 7-1721.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:
(1) "Characterizing flavor" means a distinguishable taste or aroma other than tobacco, including fruit, chocolate, vanilla, candy, dessert, alcoholic beverage, menthol, mint, or wintergreen.
(1A) "Electronic smoking device" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 7-741.01(1) .
(1B) "Flavored tobacco product" means any tobacco product or synthetic nicotine product that imparts a characterizing flavor.
(1C) "Hookah" means a type of waterpipe used to smoke shisha or other tobacco products with a long flexible tube for drawing aerosol through water. Components of a hookah may include heads, stems, bowls, and hoses.
(1D) "Hookah bar" means a restaurant, tavern, brew pub, club, or nightclub that:
  (A) Generates revenue from the sale for on-site consumption of tobacco products used with a hookah, excluding sales from vending machines or the rental of on-site humidors; provided, that the restaurant, tavern, brew pub, club, or nightclub has a valid smoking exemption from the Department of Health pursuant to § 7-741.03(a)(2) or (3) ; and
  (B) Does not permit any person under 21 years of age to be present or enter the premises at any time.
(2) “Self-service display” means a display that contains tobacco products and is located in an area openly accessible to consumers, and from which consumers can readily access tobacco products without the assistance of a sales clerk. A display case that holds tobacco products behind locked doors does not constitute a self-service display.
(2A) "Tobacco product" means any product that is made from or derived from tobacco and is intended for human consumption or is likely to be consumed, whether smoked, heated, chewed, absorbed, dissolved, inhaled, or ingested by any other means, including through a cigarette, a cigar, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, smokeless tobacco, or an electronic smoking device. The term "tobacco product" also includes any component or accessory used in the consumption of a tobacco product, such as filters, rolling papers, pipes, or liquids used in electronic smoking devices. The term "tobacco product" does not include drugs, devices, or combination products authorized for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug  Administration, as those terms are defined in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, approved June 25, 1938 (52 Stat. 1040; 21 U.S.C. § 301 et seq .).
(3) “Tobacco specialty store” means a retail store that bars entry to individuals under 21years of age and that is used primarily for the sale of tobacco products and accessories in which the total annual revenue generated by the sale of non-tobacco products or accessories is no greater than 25% of the total revenue of the establishment.
D.C. Code § 7-2105 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21 / § 7-2105
§ 7-2105. Inspections.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) To ensure that each new facility will be in compliance with this chapter, the rules issued pursuant to this chapter, and all other applicable laws, the Mayor shall conduct an on-site inspection before a facility’s initial licensure. Instead of issuing a full-year license to a new facility or licensee, the Mayor may issue a provisional license under § 7-2107(b) pending satisfactory completion of additional, follow-up inspections. After initial licensure, the Mayor shall conduct at least 1 on-site inspection before each licensure renewal.
  (2) The Mayor shall at least once a year inspect all facilities caring for District children outside the District to ensure that each of these facilities is in substantial compliance with this chapter, the rules issued pursuant to this chapter, and all other applicable laws. One year after the issuance of rules under § 7-2103 , the Mayor shall report to the Council on the cost and efficacy of implementing this paragraph and on the extent to which facilities caring for District children outside the District are required by their respective jurisdictions to meet licensure standards comparable to those adopted under § 7-2103 . Within 45 days after receiving the Mayor’s report, the Council shall determine whether this paragraph should be amended to authorize the Mayor to accept licensure by other jurisdictions in lieu of conducting annual inspections.
(b) The Mayor may at any reasonable hour enter a facility for the purpose of conducting an announced or unannounced inspection to check for compliance with this chapter, a rule issued pursuant to this chapter, or any other District or locally enforceable federal law. When conducting an inspection, especially of a foster home, the Mayor shall respect the homelike atmosphere of the facility and the reasonable privacy interests of its residents and adult caregivers.
(c) Any District government employee who, while visiting a facility for the purpose of casework or monitoring, observes a condition that he or she believes in violation of this chapter, a rule issued pursuant to this chapter, or any other District or federal law shall, no later than 7 days after making the observation and if not previously reported, report this suspected violation to the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (“DCRA”).
(d) The Mayor shall make all licensure and inspection reports available to the public upon request and shall notify all child-placing agencies in the District whenever a facility’s license is suspended, revoked, converted to a provisional or restricted license, or not renewed.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.21 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.21
§ 7-1131.21. Department of Mental Health Enterprise Fund.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Department of Mental Health Enterprise Fund (“Fund”) into which shall be deposited all fees, proceeds, and revenues collected from the activities and operations of a food cafeteria managed and operated by the Department of Mental Health to serve department staff and patients on the Saint Elizabeths Hospital campus, which funds shall be used only for the management and operation of the food cafeteria.
(b) All funds deposited into the Fund, and any interest earned on those funds shall not revert to the unrestricted fund balance of the General Fund of the District of Columbia at the end of a fiscal year, or of any other time, but shall be continually available for the uses and purposes set forth in subsection (a) of this section without regard to fiscal year limitation, subject to authorization by Congress.
D.C. Code § 7-503.17 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-503.17
§ 7-503.17. Adult protective services.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-771.10c — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.10c
§ 7-771.10c. Department of Health Care Finance reporting requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) By January 1, 2024, the Director shall submit the following reports to the Council:
  (1) A report on medical respite care for homeless individuals, including:
    (A) Recommendations for the establishment of medical respite care services for homeless individuals, through either an amendment to the District of Columbia Medicaid State Plan or a waiver pursuant to section 1115 of the Social Security Act, approved July 25, 1962 (76 Stat. 192; 42 U.S.C. § 1315);
    (B) The types of services that may be offered to homeless individuals through a medical respite care program; and
    (C) An identification of any potential restrictions on the provision of services identified pursuant to subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, including the use of prior authorization; and
  (2) A report on the status of value-based payment methods within the District's public and locally funded health benefit programs operated by managed care organizations ("MCOs"), which shall include:
    (A) Specific efforts undertaken by each of the District's public and locally funded health benefit programs operated by MCOs to incorporate value-based payment initiatives with their network providers, along with qualitative and quantitative outcomes associated with those efforts;
    (B) A description of how each public and locally funded health benefit program operated by MCOs aligns financial incentives and accountability with the total costs of care and overall health outcomes;
    (C) A description of how each public and locally funded health benefit program operated by MCOs aligns payments directly with quality and efficiency of care; and
    (D) An analysis of the percentage of total medical expenditures by public and locally funded health benefit programs operated by MCOs that are linked to alternative payment methods.
(b) (1) Beginning January 1, 2024, and every 3 months thereafter, each of the District's public and locally funded health benefit programs operated by MCOs shall report to the Department the following data on a de-identified basis:
    (A) The total number of beneficiaries in its plan, including those enrolled in a value-based payment model;
    (B) The number of its beneficiaries who do not have an assigned primary care physician;
    (C) The number of its beneficiaries who have not had a primary care visit in the previous 12 months; and
    (D) The number of its beneficiaries who have had more than 5 emergency room visits in the previous 90 days.
  (2) Within 30 days of receiving the information required under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Director shall report such information to the Council and post it publicly on the Department's website.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.08
§ 7-1671.08. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who manufactures, cultivates, possesses, administers, dispenses, distributes, or uses cannabis, or manufactures, possesses, distributes, or uses paraphernalia, in a manner not authorized by this chapter or the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 shall be subject to criminal prosecution and sanction under subchapter I of Chapter 11 of Title 48 [ § 48-1101 et seq.].
(b) (1) Any person who makes a fraudulent representation to a law enforcement official of any fact or circumstance relating to the person's manufacture, cultivation, possession, administration, dispensing, distribution, or use of medical cannabis, or manufacture, possession, distribution, or use of paraphernalia to avoid arrest or prosecution shall be subject to a criminal fine not to exceed $1,000.
  [(2)] The imposition of the fine set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be in addition to any other penalties that may otherwise apply for the making of a false statement or for the manufacture, cultivation, possession, administration, dispensing, distribution, or use of cannabis, or the manufacture, possession, distribution, or use of paraphernalia.
(c) It shall be an affirmative defense to a criminal charge of possession or distribution of cannabis, or possession with intent to distribute cannabis, that the person charged with the offense is a person who:
  (1) Was in possession of medical cannabis only inside the qualifying patient’s residence or a medical treatment facility;
  (2) Only administered or assisted in administering the medical cannabis to the qualifying patient and only within the qualifying patient’s residence or at a permitted medical treatment facility;
  (3) Assisted the qualifying patient only when the caregiver was not reasonably available to provide assistance; and
  (4) Is 18 years of age or older.
(d) The ABC Board may impose and adjudicate civil fines for violations of this chapter and rules issued in accordance with § 7-1671.13 committed by licensed or unlicensed cultivation centers, manufacturers, retailers, internet retailers, testing laboratories, and couriers.
(e) Within 180 days after March 22, 2023, the ABC Board shall submit proposed regulations to the Council setting forth a schedule of civil penalties, fines, and fees for violations of this chapter for a 90-day period of review, including Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and periods of Council recess. If the Council does not approve, in whole or in part, the proposed regulations within the 90-day review period, the regulations shall be deemed approved. The schedule shall replace all civil penalties, except as expressly provided in this chapter .
(f) Beginning January 31, 2024, the ABC Board may issue the following fines to an unlicensed establishment that violates § 7-1671.06(c-1) or § 7-1671.06b(e) , or has not filed an accepted and pending application with the ABC Board and knowingly engages or attempts to engage in the purchase, sale, exchange, delivery, or any other form of commercial transaction involving cannabis that is not purchased, sold, exchanged, or delivered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or § 48-904.01 :
  (1) For the first violation, the ABC Board may:
    (A) Issue a fine in the amount of $10,000; and
    (B) Require the unlicensed establishment to submit a remediation plan to the ABC Board that contains the unlicensed establishment's plan to prevent any future recurrence of purchasing, selling, exchanging, delivering, or otherwise transacting any cannabis or cannabis products that are not purchased, sold, exchanged, or delivered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or § 48-904.01 ;
  (2) For any subsequent violations or if the unlicensed establishment fails to submit a remediation plan in accordance with paragraph (1) of this subsection, or if the ABC Board rejects the unlicensed establishment's remediation plan, the ABC Board may issue additional fines as follows:
    (A) For the second violation, a fine in the amount of $20,000;
    (B) For the third or subsequent violation, a fine in the amount of $30,000;
    (C) For failing to submit a remediation plan or having its remediation plan rejected by the ABC Board, a fine of in the amount of $10,000.
  (3) Revenue collected from fines imposed pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the General Fund of the District of Columbia.
  (4) Nothing in this subsection shall preclude the ABC Board from issuing a cease-and-desist order or the closure of an unlicensed establishment for a first or subsequent violation of this subsection.
(g) (1) Notwithstanding §§ 7-1671.06(b) and 7-1671.06(f) , ABCA shall have the authority to inspect the entire premises, inventory, and business records of an unlicensed establishment to determine whether the business is conducting activity in violation of this title. If, after an inspection, ABCA determines that an unlicensed establishment presents an imminent danger to the health or safety of the public, as described in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the ABC Board may summarily close and order the padlocking, by ABCA or MPD without a prior hearing, of the unlicensed establishment, and ABCA or MPD may seize all cannabis and cannabis products found at the premises.
  (2) For the purpose of this subsection, the term "imminent danger to the health or safety of the public" includes any of the following:
    (A) The unlicensed establishment distributes or attempts to distribute cannabis or a cannabis product to one or more persons under the age of 21.
    (B) The unlicensed establishment manufactures, produces, or cultivates cannabis or cannabis products at the building or premises.
    (C) Once a testing laboratory has been licensed under this chapter , the unlicensed establishment distributes, attempts to distribute, or makes available for sale or exchange cannabis or a cannabis product untested by a testing laboratory licensed under this chapter .
    (D) The unlicensed establishment distributes, attempts to distribute or makes available for sale or exchange cannabis or a cannabis product that fails to contain a label identifying the source of the cannabis or cannabis product, including where it was manufactured, the contents of the package, and the cannabis or cannabis product's ingredients, and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content, or is otherwise not labeled in accordance with this chapter .
    (E) The unlicensed establishment fails to comply with a cease-and-desist order.
    (F) The unlicensed establishment distributes, attempts to distribute, or makes available for sale or exchange Schedule I substances, or products that contain Schedule I substances, as enumerated in § 48-902.04 .
    (G) An employee, agent, or owner of the unlicensed establishment has unlawful firearms or weapons on the premises.
    (H) A dangerous crime, as defined in § 23-1331(3) , or a crime of violence, as defined in § 23-1331(4) , was committed on the premises of the unlicensed establishment.
    (I) The unlicensed establishment engages in any activity or operation established as an imminent danger to the health or safety of the public by the ABC Board by rule.
  (3) ABCA shall provide the unlicensed establishment's owner and the property owner with written notice of the summary closure and the right to request a hearing.
  (4) The owner of the unlicensed establishment shall have 5 business days after service of the notice of summary closure to request a hearing with the ABC Board, which shall hold a hearing within 5 business days of a timely request.
  (5) The ABC Board shall issue a written decision within 5 business days after the hearing.
(h) (1) ABCA or the Metropolitan Police Department may post signage at the site of the unlicensed establishment indicating that unlicensed activity has been found to have occurred for violations of this chapter .
  (2) If the ABC Board orders the closure of an unlicensed establishment, the ABC Board shall post 2 notices in conspicuous places at or near the main street entrance on the outside of the establishment.
  (3) The posted notice shall state that the closure is ordered because of a violation of this chapter or of the regulations promulgated pursuant to this chapter .
  (4) Any person willfully removing, obliterating, or defacing the notice shall be guilty of a violation of this chapter .
(i) (1) An ABCA investigator may test cannabis and cannabis products to quantify their THC content.
  (2) In any proceeding before the ABC Board, labeling or packaging in an unlicensed establishment that states that the product contains cannabis or tetrahydrocannabinol, whether in whole or in part, or a derivative thereof, shall create a presumption that the product contains cannabis and contains the amounts of the chemicals indicated on the label or packaging unless such presumption is overcome by a preponderance of evidence to the contrary.
D.C. Code § 7-1756 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1756
§ 7-1756. Penalties and remedies.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) A manufacturer or wholesale dealer who knowingly fails to comply with any of the provisions of this subchapter, or regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 for each violation and not to exceed $100,000 for all such violations during any 30-day period.
  (2) A retail dealer who knowingly fails to comply with any of the provisions of this subchapter, or regulations promulgated pursuant to this subchapter, shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for each violation and not to exceed $25,000 for all such violations during any 30-day period.
  (3) Each day of violation shall constitute a separate violation and, unless provided otherwise by regulation, the prescribed penalty shall be applicable to each separate violation.
(b) In addition to any penalty prescribed by subsection (a) of this section, any corporation, partnership, sole proprietor, limited partnership, or association engaged in the manufacture of cigarettes that knowingly makes a false certification pursuant to § 7-1754 shall be subject to a civil penalty of at least $75,000 and not to exceed $250,000 for each such false certification.
(c) In addition to any other remedy provided by law, the Attorney General for the District of Columbia may file a civil action in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for a violation of this subchapter, which may include a petition for injunctive relief and the recovery of costs or damages.
(d) (1) Law enforcement personnel or duly authorized representatives of the Mayor may seize and take possession of cigarettes that have not been marked in the manner required by § 7-1754(b) . The seized cigarettes shall be turned over to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and shall be forfeited to the District of Columbia.
  (2) Cigarettes seized pursuant to this subsection shall be destroyed; provided, that before the destruction of any cigarette seized, the true holder of the trademark rights in the cigarette brand shall be permitted to inspect the cigarette.
D.C. Code § 7-2202 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 22 / § 7-2202
§ 7-2202. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency; Director and other personnel; compensation.
Status: in_force

(a) To carry out the purposes of this chapter, the Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to establish in the municipal government of such District a Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency to consist of a Director and such other personnel as may be needed. Such Director shall be the executive head of such Office [Agency].
(b) Notwithstanding the limitation of any law, there may be employed in such Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency any person who has been retired from any of the uniformed services of the United States or any office or position in the federal or District governments, and except as hereinafter provided, while so employed in such Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency any such retired person may receive the compensation authorized for such employment or the retirement compensation or annuity, whichever he may elect, and upon the termination of such employment, he shall be restored to the same status as a retired officer or employee with the same retirement compensation or annuity to which he was entitled before having been employed in such Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. While any person who has been retired from any of the uniformed services of the United States is so employed in such Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, he may receive the compensation authorized for such employment and his retired or retirement pay, subject to § 5532 [repealed] of Title 5, United States Code.
D.C. Code § 7-761.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7C / § 7-761.11
§ 7-761.11. Rescission.
Status: in_force

All organizational orders and parts thereof in conflict with any of the provisions of this chapter are rescinded, except that any regulations adopted or promulgated by virtue of the authority granted by such orders shall remain in force until revised, amended, or repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-733 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-733
§ 7-733. Health Occupations Regulation Fund.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a special fund the Health Occupations Regulation Fund ("Fund"), which shall be administered by the Mayor in accordance with subsection (b-1) of this section.
(b) All licensing fees and civil fines relating to the practice of health occupations in the District of Columbia shall be deposited into the Fund; except, that the Basic Business License Fee collected by the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection for the activities described in § 7-731 shall be deposited into the Basic Business License Fund established by § 47-2851.13 .
(b-1) Money in the Fund shall be used by the Mayor for the operation of the boards established pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 3 , including all salaries and all other expenses necessary in carrying out the duties of the boards.
(c) Subject to the applicable laws relating to the appropriation of District of Columbia funds, monies received by and deposited in the Health Occupations Regulation Fund shall be for the sole use of the boards established pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 3 , and from it shall be paid all salaries and all other expenses necessary in carrying out the duties of the boards. The Mayor shall be responsible for the deposit and expenditure of these monies.
(d) Repealed.
(e) (1) The money deposited into the Fund but not expended in a fiscal year shall not revert to the unassigned fund balance of the General Fund of the District of Columbia at the end of a fiscal year, or at any other time.
  (2) Subject to authorization in an approved budget and financial plan, any funds appropriated in the Fund shall be continually available without regard to fiscal year limitation.
D.C. Code § 7-177 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-177
§ 7-177. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Alteration, amendment, or repeal.
Status: in_force

The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered, in making regulations under the authority conferred by Congress, to alter, amend, or repeal any of the ordinances of the late Board of Health of said District which were legalized by §§ 7-174 and 7-175 , whenever in its judgment the public interest requires it.
D.C. Code § 7-2071.12 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20A / § 7-2071.12
§ 7-2071.12. Funding for the Ombudsman Program.
Status: in_force

(a) Funding sources for the Ombudsman Program shall include:
  (1) District local appropriations; and
  (2) Medicaid and other available federal matching funds.
(b) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a corporation, organization, or consortia of organizations selected to operate the Health Care and Public Benefits Ombudsman Program from raising private money through foundation resources to supplement government funds for the program.
D.C. Code § 7-771.07a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.07a
§ 7-771.07a. Grant authority.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) For Fiscal Year 2018, the Director shall:
    (A) Award 4 grants of at least $50,000 to facilitate the development and application of telehealth services to:
      (i) Health care providers located in Wards 7 and 8; and
      (ii) Residents located in Wards 7 and 8;
    (B) Award 2 grants of at least $75,000 to facilitate the development and application of telehealth services to homeless shelters or public housing projects; and
    (C) Award a grant of $250,000 to a college of pharmacy located in the District to create and maintain a medication-assisted treatment genomic registry.
  (2) In awarding grants pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection, the Director shall consider the following:
    (A) Promoting telehealth in specialty areas of medicine, including ophthalmology, obstetrics, and endocrinology; and
    (B) Expanding the application of telehealth to public schools, patient homes, and skilled nursing facilities.
(a-1) For Fiscal Year 2019, the Director shall:
  (1) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $75,000 to develop a pilot program to strengthen the ability of faith-based organizations to:
    (A) Deliver health screening, assessments, and health care services through telehealth; and
    (B) Reduce low-acuity, non-emergency room visitation, avoidable hospitalizations, and hospital readmission for persons who live in Wards 5, 7, and 8;
  (2) Award 2 competitive grants in an amount not to exceed $50,000 to health care providers with expertise and staff capacity in medical oncology, particularly prostate and gynecologic cancers, that focus on patient screening, treatment planning, and care coordination, to defray the capital and equipment costs associated with the provision of additional oncological services in Wards 7 and 8;
  (3) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $30,000 to a health care provider to establish a program to provide free medical services to teen parents attending a District of Columbia public school or public charter high school located in Ward 7 or 8;
  (4) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $500,000 to an organization to design and develop a community resource inventory that is accessible to health and social support organizations and that has the capacity to communicate and track referrals; and
  (5) (A) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $200,000 to an entity to provide multi-disciplinary, patient-centered preventative health and perinatal educational services to high-risk expectant mothers residing in Wards 7 and 8 and who receive Medicaid or are Medicaid-eligible.
    (B) No more than 50% of the selected entity's direct services delivery staff shall possess higher than a bachelor's degree.
    (C) At a minimum, the selected entity shall demonstrate an ability to:
      (i) Implement a peer-support model of care for expectant mothers;
      (ii) Identify a consistent source of referrals for expectant mothers;
      (iii) Refer expectant mothers to WIC, health insurance coverage options, and other community resources;
      (iv) Provide the following services to expectant mothers:
        (I) Regular office and in-home visits;
        (II) Mental health supports;
        (III) Access to classes and support groups on perinatal fitness, childbirth education, nutritional education, newborn care, and parenting skills;
        (IV) Expanded maternity services from the end of pregnancy to 6 months postpartum; and
      (v) Initiate delivery of services to expectant mothers as follows:
        (I) Prior to 4 weeks postpartum for non-neonatal intensive care unit births; and
        (II) Up to 12 weeks postpartum for neonatal intensive care unit births; and
      (vi) Increase breastfeeding rates.
    (D) (i) The Director shall collect the following data from the selected entity regarding expectant mothers that receive services pursuant to paragraph (5)(A) of this subsection:
        (I) Maternal morbidity and mortality rates;
        (II) Number of low birth-weight newborns;
        (III) Rate of premature births;
        (IV) Infant morbidity and mortality rates;
        (V) Tobacco and nicotine use during pregnancy and pediatric exposure to second hand smoke; and
        (VI) Other data as determined by the Director.
      (ii) The Director shall compare the data in sub-subparagraph (i) with outcomes among the general Medicaid and Medicaid-eligible population and report his findings to the Council's Committee on Health.
(a-2) For Fiscal Year 2020, the Director shall:
  (1) (A) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $150,000 to fund operating expenses associated with the provision of medical respite care services to individuals who are homeless; provided, that if such a grant is awarded to a Federally Qualified Health Center ("FQHC"), the amount of the grant shall not be offset against the FQHC's expenses for the purpose of determining its allowable costs in accordance with section 4511.2 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (29 DCMR § 4511.2).
    (B) At a minimum, the selected entity shall possess:
      (i) The staff capacity and expertise necessary to provide medical respite care, with a particular emphasis on care for women who are homeless; and
      (ii) The ability to provide case management services, including assistance in accessing permanent housing services.
    (C) By September 30, 2020, the Director shall submit a report to the Council that sets forth:
      (i) Recommendations for the establishment of medical respite care services for homeless individuals, through either:
        (I) An amendment to the District of Columbia Medicaid State Plan; or
        (II) A waiver pursuant to section 1115 of the Social Security Act, approved July 25, 1962 (76 Stat. 192; 42 U.S.C. § 1315), for home and community-based services;
      (ii) The types of services that may be offered to homeless individuals through a medical respite care program; and
      (iii) An identification of any potential restrictions on the provision of services identified pursuant to sub-subparagraph (ii) of this subparagraph, including the use of prior authorization.
  (2) (A) (i) Award competitive grants in an amount not to exceed $100,000 to community-based initiatives focused on addressing the social determinants of health in Wards 7 and 8.
      (ii) In establishing criteria for the award of grants pursuant to sub-subparagraph (i) of this subparagraph, the Department shall prioritize community-based initiatives that utilize a cohort-based curriculum that incorporates design-thinking.
    (B) By November 1, 2019, the Department shall publish criteria in the District of Columbia Register governing the process for applying for and administering grants issued pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i) of this paragraph; provided, that the Department shall require grant applications to be submitted by January 15, 2020.
    (C) By March 1, 2020, the Department shall dispense final awards for all grants issued pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i) of this paragraph.
(a-3) For Fiscal Year 2021, the Director may issue grants pursuant to [§7-771.07b(b)(4)(B)(ii) and (iii) [ § 7-771.07b repealed]]
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(a-4) For Fiscal Year 2021, the Director may:
  (1) (A) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $150,000 to fund operating expenses associated with the provision of medical respite care services to individuals who are homeless; provided, that if such a grant is awarded to a Federally Qualified Health Center ("FQHC"), the amount of the grant shall not be offset against the FQHC's expenses for the purpose of determining its allowable cost in accordance with section 4511.2 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (29 DCMR § 4511.2).
    (B) At a minimum, the selected entity shall possess:
      (i) The staff capacity and expertise necessary to provide medical respite care, with a particular emphasis on care for women who are homeless; and
      (ii) The ability to provide case management services, including assistance in accessing permanent housing services.
  (2) If a grant is awarded, then by September 30, 2021, the Director shall submit a report to the Council that sets forth:
    (A) Recommendations for the establishment of medical respite care services for homeless individuals, through either:
      (i) An amendment to the District of Columbia Medicaid State Plan; or
      (ii) A waiver pursuant to section 1115 of the Social Security Act, approved July 25, 1962 (76 Stat. 192; 42 U.S.C. § 1315), for home and community-based services;
    (B) The types of services that may be offered to homeless individuals through a medical care respite program; and
    (C) An identification of any potential restrictions on the provision of services identified pursuant to sub-subparagraph (ii) of this subparagraph, including the use of prior authorization.
(a-5) For Fiscal Year 2022, subject to the availability of funds, the Director may:
  (1) (A) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $150,000 to fund operating expenses associated with the provision of medical respite care services to individuals who are homeless; provided, that if such a grant is awarded to a Federally Qualified Health Center ("FQHC"), the amount of the grant shall not be offset against the FQHC's expenses for the purpose of determining its allowable cost in accordance with section 4511.2 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (29 DCMR § 4511.2).
    (B) At a minimum, the selected entity shall possess:
      (i) The staff capacity and expertise necessary to provide medical respite care, with a particular emphasis on care for women who are homeless; and
      (ii) The ability to provide case management services, including assistance in accessing permanent housing services.
  (2) (A) Award competitive grants in an amount not to exceed $200,000 to community-based initiatives focused on addressing the social determinants of health in Wards 7 and 8.
    (B) In establishing criteria for the award of grants pursuant to this paragraph, the Department shall prioritize community-based initiatives that utilize a cohort-based curriculum that incorporates design-thinking.
  (3) (A) Award competitive grants in an amount not to exceed $200,000 to study the barriers to telehealth services for clients of the Department of Behavioral Health and the Department of Disability Services, utilizing a design-thinking approach, and to propose a set of recommendations for addressing those barriers.
    (B) In establishing criteria for the award of grants pursuant to this paragraph, the Department shall prioritize providers that have an established program dedicated to design-thinking.
  (4) Award competitive grants in an amount not to exceed $250,000 to assist FQHCs in educating their patients in Wards 7 and 8 on how to properly access telehealth services; provided, that the amount of the grant shall not be offset against the FQHC's expenses for the purpose of determining its allowable costs in accordance with section 4511.2 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (29 DCMR § 4511.2).
  (5) Award a competitive grant in an amount not to exceed $100,000 to a District-based organization to deploy non-physician healthcare practitioners, such as social workers, to facilitate and improve care coordination for pregnant mothers receiving health benefits through Medicaid or the DC HealthCare Alliance; provided, that the Department shall select an awardee with experience providing prenatal and postpartum maternal care to Medicaid beneficiaries by way of digital health or telehealth with a focus on early detection of pregnancy-related illnesses, such as gestational hypertension or preeclampsia.
(b) By April 1, 2019, the Director shall submit a report to the Secretary to the Council on all grants issued pursuant to this section.
(c) All grants issued pursuant to this section shall be administered pursuant to the requirements set forth in part B of subchapter XII-A of Chapter 3 of Title 1 .
(d) The Director may set forth health outcome measures for all grants issued pursuant to this section.
(d-1) Funds appropriated for grants issued pursuant to subsection (a-2) of this section shall not be reprogrammed, unless the Council approves the reprogramming request by resolution.
(e) For the purposes of this section, the term:
  (1) "Design-thinking" means a structured, human-centered creative process that synthesizes multi-disciplinary ideas to address the social determinants of health.
  (1A) "Health-care provider" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 21-2202(4) .
  (2) "Medication-assisted treatment genomic registry" means a central location for the submission of genetic test information that health care providers can use in the provision of medication assisted treatment, clinical decision support for induction, stabilization, and maintenance treatment, and genomic-guided medication therapy management for opioid addiction.
  (2A) "Social determinants of health" means the conditions in the environment in which people are born, live, work, and age that have a significant impact on health outcomes, including socioeconomic status, education, physical environment, employment, social support networks, and access to health-care services.
  (3) "Telehealth" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 31-3861 (18).
  (4) "WIC" means the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, as provided in section 17 of the Child Nutrition Act of 1966, approved September 26, 1972 (86 Stat. 729; 42 U.S.C. § 1786).
D.C. Code § 7-1904 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1904
§ 7-1904. Investigations.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) In accordance with this section and the rules to be issued by the Mayor pursuant to § 7-1909 , the Department shall, except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, either investigate each report received or refer a report for investigation to another public or private agency designated by the Mayor.
  (2) The Department shall not be required to investigate a report that:
    (A) Fails to allege facts that, if proved, would be sufficient to support the conclusion that the alleged victim is an “adult in need of protective services” as that term is defined in § 7-1901(2) ; or
    (B) Is substantively repetitive of a previously reported incidence of abuse, neglect, or exploitation.
  (3) If a report alleges the existence of an immediate, substantial risk of life-threatening harm to an adult in need of protective services, the Department shall immediately notify the police, who shall conduct a prompt investigation to determine the need for police intervention. In addition, within 24 hours of the Department’s receiving such a report, an APS worker shall commence an investigation to determine the need for protective services. These 2 investigations may be conducted either jointly or separately.
  (4) For reports that allege an adult is in need of protective services but do not allege the existence of an immediate, substantial risk of life-threatening harm, an APS worker shall commence an investigation to determine the need for protective services within 10 days (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) of the Department’s receiving the report.
  (5) In accordance with procedures to be established under § 7-1909(1) , the Mayor shall ensure that, when appropriate, an APS worker is accompanied by a police officer while conducting an initial or follow-up investigation.
(b) Before entering a residence or otherwise approaching an adult who is allegedly in need of protective services, an APS worker conducting an investigation under this section shall first announce his or her purpose and, if accompanied by a police officer, the presence of that officer, and then secure the consents of the adult allegedly in need of protective services and any other adult who is present and appears to have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the residence or immediate premises. If the adult allegedly in need of protective services objects to the investigation and it does not manifestly appear to the APS worker that the objection is prompted by fear or intimidation instilled by another or that the adult is incapacitated, the investigation shall be terminated. If the objection manifestly appears prompted by fear or intimidation instilled by another, or if another person on the premises refuses to allow the investigation to take place, the Department may, either on its own behalf or, if the APS worker is employed by an agency other than the Department, on behalf of the other investigating agency, request the Attorney General to petition for an ex parte order pursuant to subsection (c) of this section. Where good cause exists to believe that a self-neglecting person is incapacitated, the APS worker, the Department, or the Attorney General may provide protective services pursuant to § 7-1905(c-1) .
(c) If requested by the Department, the Attorney General shall promptly conduct a factual inquiry and, if legally supportable, file a petition in court for an ex parte order enjoining persons other than the adult who is allegedly in need of protective services from directly or indirectly interfering with the investigation. The petition shall allege specific facts, supported by oath or affirmation, showing that:
  (1) There is probable cause to believe an adult located at a specified location is in need of protective services; and
  (2) An APS worker conducting an investigation was denied reasonable access to the adult by a 3rd person, or, if the adult objected to the investigation, there is probable cause to believe the objection was prompted by fear or intimidation instilled by another.
(d) If the court finds that a proper showing has been made under subsection (c) (1) and (2) of this section, it shall enjoin the appropriate 3rd person(s) from interfering with an investigation under this section. The court may also order any other relief deemed necessary to facilitate an investigation, but in so doing it shall fully respect the right of an adult who is allegedly in need of protective services to freely object to and terminate that investigation.
(e) The scope of an investigation under this section shall be only that which is minimally necessary for an APS worker to determine whether an adult is in need of protective services, and, if so, what protective services are needed to remedy or substantially reduce the likelihood of abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation by others.
D.C. Code § 7-703.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7 / § 7-703.03
§ 7-703.03. Visits to the home of a resident.
Status: in_force

The Ombudsman may communicate and visit with a resident who receives home care services; provided, that the Ombudsman obtains permission from the resident or a representative of the resident to enter the resident’s home.
D.C. Code § 7-1910 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1910
§ 7-1910. Payment or reimbursement for cost of protective services.
Status: in_force

(a) In implementing § 7-1909(3) , the Mayor may establish a sliding scale based on one’s ability to pay. No adult in need of protective services shall be denied those services because he or she is unable to pay for them or because a person (other than the adult) who is legally responsible for providing any or all of the services refuses to reimburse the District or contribute to their cost. The Attorney General may, either as part of a proceeding for a protection order or in an independent court action, seek an order directing the adult in need of protective services or person(s) legally responsible for those services to pay or reimburse the District for so much of the cost of providing protective services under this chapter as he or she is reasonably able to afford. The court, however, may not direct an adult in need of protective services to pay or reimburse the District for any of the cost of providing those services if the court orders the services over the continued objection of the adult after finding that the objection has been prompted by fear or intimidation instilled by another.
(b) The Attorney General may, either as part of a proceeding for a protection order or in an independent court action, seek an order directing the person(s) responsible for an adult’s abuse, neglect, or exploitation to pay or reimburse the District for all or part of the costs associated with conducting the investigation, appointing counsel, and providing protective services in that particular case. In so doing, the Attorney General shall have the burden of proving a person’s responsibility for abuse, neglect, or exploitation by a preponderance of the evidence. Testimony of the defendant(s), and the fruits of that testimony, shall be inadmissible as evidence in a subsequent criminal trial except in a prosecution for perjury or false statement.
D.C. Code § 7-137 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-137
§ 7-137. Persons believed to be carriers of communicable diseases — Arrest.
Status: in_force

(a) In aid of the powers vested in the Mayor to cause the removal to and detention in a place or institution of a person who is affected or is believed, upon probable cause, to be affected with any communicable disease or is or is believed, upon probable cause, to be a carrier of communicable disease as provided in this subchapter, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, or any judge thereof, is authorized to issue a warrant for the arrest of such person and his removal to a place or institution as defined in § 7-133 , which warrant shall be directed to the Chief of Police. When such person has been removed to such place or institution under authority of a warrant issued pursuant to this section, such person shall not be  discharged from such place or institution except in the manner provided in § 7-135 .
(b) No such warrant of arrest and removal shall be issued except upon probable cause supported by affidavit or affidavits particularly describing the person to be taken, which said affidavit or affidavits shall set forth the facts tending to establish the grounds of the application or probable cause for believing that they exist.
(c) A warrant may in all cases be served by the Chief of Police or by any officer or member of the Metropolitan Police, but by no other person, except in aid of the officer on his requiring it, he being present and acting in its execution.
(d) The officer may break open any outer or inner door or window of a house, or any part of a house, or anything therein, to execute the warrant, if, after notice of his authority and purpose, he is refused admittance.
(e) A warrant must be returned to the Court within 10 days after its date; after the expiration of this time the warrant, unless executed, is void.
(f) It shall be the duty of the said Court to maintain and keep records of all warrants issued and the returns thereon.
D.C. Code § 7-248 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2B / § 7-248
§ 7-248. Rules.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [ § 2-501 et seq.], shall issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.
(b) The Mayor shall submit the proposed rules to the Council for a 30-day period of review, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, holidays, and days of Council recess. If the Council does not approve or disapprove the proposed rules, in whole or in part, by resolution within this 30-day review period, the proposed rules shall be deemed approved.
D.C. Code § 7-2101 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21 / § 7-2101
§ 7-2101. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Child” means any individual who is:
  (A) Under 18 years of age;
  (B) 18 to 20 years of age and subject to a consent decree or dispositional order entered pursuant to Chapter 23 of Title 16 ; or
  (C) 18 to 21 years of age and has an individualized education program pursuant to 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq.
(2) “Continuing care” means ongoing supervision and care designed to nurture a resident’s growth and development, meet basic health needs, and monitor applicable school or work attendance.
(3) “Court” means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
(4) “District” means the District of Columbia.
(5) “Emergency care” means temporary supervision and care, usually not exceeding 90 days and provided as the result of an individual or family crisis, that includes monitoring of applicable school or work attendance and an assessment of a resident’s physical, psychosocial, and educational needs.
(6) “Facility” means a youth residential facility.
(7) “Resident” means a District child residing in a youth residential facility.
(8) “Therapeutic care” means an intensive, professionally supervised program of education and treatment designed to meet a resident’s physical, psychosocial, and educational needs as identified in an individualized treatment plan and, if applicable, an individualized education program.
(9) (A) “Youth residential facility” means a residential placement providing adult supervision and care for 1 or more children who are not related by blood, marriage, guardianship, or adoption (including both final and nonfinal adoptive placements) to any of the facility’s adult caregivers and who were found to be in need of a specialized living arrangement as the result of:
    (i) A detention or shelter care hearing held pursuant to § 16-2312 ;
    (ii) A dispositional hearing held pursuant to § 16-2317 ;
    (iii) Family crisis, homelessness, runaway status, or other circumstances creating a need for out-of-home supervision and care; or
    (iv) A mental or physical disability that requires, in accordance with 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., more services than can be provided by nonresidential programs.
  (B) The term “youth residential facility” shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, foster homes, youth shelters, runaway shelters, emergency care facilities, youth group homes, supervised apartments, and residential treatment centers; it shall not include informal substitute care provided by friends or neighbors or those facilities licensed under Chapter 5 of Title 44 .
D.C. Code § 7-1305.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1305.02
§ 7-1305.02. Living conditions; teaching of skills.
Status: in_force

Persons shall be provided with the least restrictive and most normal living conditions possible. Persons with intellectual disabilities found incompetent in a criminal case shall be provided with the least restrictive and most normal living conditions possible consistent with preventing the person from causing injury to others as a result of the person’s intellectual disability. This standard shall apply to dress, grooming, movement, use of free time, and contact and communication with the community, including access to services outside of the institution or residential facility. Persons shall be taught skills that help them learn how to effectively utilize their environment and how to make choices necessary for daily living and, in the case of a person committed under § 7-1304.06a , to refrain from committing crimes of violence or sex offenses.
D.C. Code § 7-1913 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1913
§ 7-1913. Reporting to Council.
Status: in_force

The Mayor shall submit to the Council an annual report on this chapter, which shall at a minimum include the following:
(1) A description of the specific actions taken to implement this chapter, including the staffing pattern and budget of the responsible administrative unit;
(2) An analysis by fiscal year of:
  (A) The number of cases reported, investigations conducted, and reports substantiated;
  (B) The characteristics of both substantiated and unsubstantiated cases, including a breakdown by age, impairment, individual reporting, police involvement, services refused, and type of abuse, neglect, or exploitation involved;
  (C) The number of cases referred to court, the reasons for referral, their outcome, and associated court costs;
  (D) The type, amount, and cost of protective services provided;
  (E) The percentage of cost reimbursed by or recouped from 3rd parties;
  (F) The status of substantiated cases at the end of 90 days of services, and the average number of days of services per case;
  (G) The effectiveness with which government agencies and private organizations collaborate to investigate cases and administer protective services, including any proposals to improve coordination of efforts; and
  (H) The resources needed by the Department to conduct investigations and provide services as authorized by and required under this chapter; and
(3) Any recommendations for amendments to this chapter.
D.C. Code § 7-2107 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21 / § 7-2107
§ 7-2107. Provisional and restricted licensure.
Status: in_force

(a) As an alternative to denial, nonrenewal, suspension, or revocation of a license, whenever a facility has numerous deficiencies or a serious single deficiency with respect to the standards established under § 7-2103(a)(2) through (4), the Mayor may:
  (1) Issue a provisional license if the facility is taking appropriate  corrective actions in accordance with a mutually agreed-upon timetable; or
  (2) Issue a restricted license that prohibits the facility from accepting new  residents or providing certain specified services that it would otherwise be  authorized to provide, if appropriate corrective actions are not forthcoming.
(b) As provided in § 7-2105(a) , provisional licenses may be issued to new facilities or licensees in order to afford the Mayor sufficient time and evidence to evaluate whether a new facility or licensee is capable of complying with this chapter, the rules issued pursuant to this chapter, and other applicable laws.
(c) Provisional licenses may be granted for a period not to exceed 90 days and may be renewed no more than once.
D.C. Code § 7-401 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 4 / § 7-401
§ 7-401. Limitation on liability for medical care or assistance in emergency situations.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who in good faith renders emergency medical care or assistance to an injured person at the scene of an accident or other emergency in the District of Columbia outside of a hospital, without the expectation of receiving or intending to seek compensation from such injured person for such service, shall not be liable in civil damages for any act or omission, not constituting gross negligence, in the course of rendering such care or assistance.
(b) In the case of a person who renders emergency medical care or assistance in circumstances described in subsection (a) of this section and who is not licensed or certified by the District of Columbia or by any state to provide medical care or assistance, the limited immunity provided in subsection (a) of this section shall apply to such persons; provided, that the person shall relinquish the direction of the care of the injured person when an appropriate person licensed or certified by the District of Columbia or by any state to provide medical care or assistance assumes responsibility for the care of the injured person.
(c) A certified emergency medical technician/paramedic or emergency medical technician/intermediate paramedic who, in good faith and pursuant to instructions either directly or via telecommunication from a licensed physician, renders advanced emergency medical care or assistance to an injured person at the scene of an accident or other emergency or in transit from the scene of an accident or emergency to a hospital shall not be liable in civil damages for any act or omission not constituting gross negligence in the course of rendering such advanced emergency medical care or assistance.
(d) A licensed physician who in good faith gives emergency medical instructions either directly or via telecommunication to a certified emergency medical technician/paramedic or emergency medical technician/intermediate paramedic for the purpose of providing advanced emergency medical care to an injured person at the scene of an accident or other emergency or in transit from the scene of an accident or emergency to a hospital shall not be liable in civil damages for any act or omission not constituting gross negligence in the course of giving such emergency medical instructions.
(d-1) If the Mayor of the District of Columbia declares a state of emergency pursuant to § 7-2304 , any act or omission of an emergency medical technician/paramedic (“Paramedic”), an emergency medical technician/intermediate paramedic (“EMT/I”), or an emergency medical technician (“EMT”), performed while providing advanced or basic life support to a patient or trauma victim shall not impose liability upon the Paramedic, EMT/I, or EMT, or any employer of the Paramedic, EMT/I, or EMT; provided, that the care is provided in good faith and does not constitute gross negligence.
(e) For the purposes of this section, the terms “emergency medical technician/paramedic,” and “emergency medical technician/intermediate paramedic,” and “emergency medical technician” mean a person who has been trained in advanced emergency medical care, employed in that capacity, and certified by the appropriate governmental certifying authority in the District of Columbia or in any state to:
  (1) Carry out all phases of basic life support;
  (2) Administer drugs under the written or oral authorization, including via telecommunication, of a licensed physician;
  (3) Administer intravenous solutions under the written or oral authorization, including via telecommunication, of a licensed physician; and
  (4) Carry out, either directly or via telecommunication instructions from a licensed physician, certain other phases of advanced life support as authorized by the appropriate governmental certifying authority.
D.C. Code § 7-2510.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2510.10
§ 7-2510.10. Recording requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) The Metropolitan Police Department shall:
  (1) Maintain a searchable database of extreme risk protection orders issued, terminated, and renewed pursuant to this subchapter ; and
  (2) Make the information maintained in paragraph (1) of this subsection available to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, the Office of the Attorney General, and any other relevant law enforcement, pretrial, corrections, or community supervision agency upon request.
(b) The Mayor, or the Mayor's designee, shall immediately submit information about extreme risk protection orders issued, renewed, or terminated pursuant to this subchapter to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for the purposes of firearm purchaser background checks.
D.C. Code § 7-2361.09 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23C / § 7-2361.09
§ 7-2361.09. Regulatory authority.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [ § 2-501 et seq.], may issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.
(b) In issuing rules under subsection (a) of this section, the Mayor shall consult with and consider the recommendations of the entities established to coordinate the implementation of the Emergency Management Assistance Compact in the District and in other states to promote uniformity of application of this chapter and make the emergency response systems in the various states reasonably compatible.
D.C. Code § 7-175 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-175
§ 7-175. Certain ordinances of Board of Health legalized — Titles.
Status: in_force

The ordinances, rules, and regulations of said late Board of Health contained  in the report mentioned in § 7-174 and printed in the said Executive Document therein mentioned, namely:
(1) “An ordinance to amend an ordinance to prevent domestic animals from running at large within the Cities of Washington and Georgetown, passed by the Board of Health May 19, 1871”;
(2) “An ordinance to prevent the sale of unwholesome food, in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown”;
(3) “An ordinance to provide for the inspection of streets, food, livestock, fish and other marine products, in the Cities of Washington and Georgetown, and to define the duties of Inspectors and other officers of the Board of Health”;
(4) “An ordinance to amend § 10 of the Code so as to read”;
(5) “An ordinance to amend an ordinance passed May 13, 1873, to read as follows”;
(6) “An ordinance to prevent committing or creating nuisances in or about public urinal or urinals located within the Cities of Washington and Georgetown”;
(7) “Rules and regulations in regard to smallpox”;
(8) Regulations and ordinances cited in paragraphs (1) through (7) of this section are legalized and made valid; and the penalties therein provided respectively for violations thereof, may be imposed and enforced for the violations of the same respectively as provided by § 27 of the ordinances passed November 19, 1875.
D.C. Code § 7-875.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8E / § 7-875.05
§ 7-875.05. Rules.
Status: in_force

The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , shall issue rules to implement the provisions of this chapter.
D.C. Code § 7-2508.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2508.04
§ 7-2508.04. Certification duties of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Status: in_force

(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 the gun offender to report to the Chief to register as required by this subchapter; and
  (3) Order the gun offender to comply with the requirements of this subchapter.
(b) The Court shall provide to the Chief, and to the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency, a copy of the certification and order, and such other records and information in its possession that will assist in the registration of the gun offender.
(c) In any case where the Court orders the release of a gun offender into the community following a period of detention, incarceration, confinement, civil commitment, or hospitalization, the Court shall provide the gun offender with a copy of the order required under subsection (a) of this section and require the gun offender to read, or have read to him or her, and sign the copy of the order.
(d) (1) For a person who has not been required to comply with the requirements of this subchapter as set forth in subsections (a) and (c) of this section, but who nevertheless qualifies and is within the period for which registration is required by this subchapter, the Court may, upon motion of the government, enter an order certifying that a person convicted of a gun offense is a gun offender and issue an order requiring the gun offender to register and to comply with the provisions of this subchapter.
  (2) The certification and order shall be personally served upon the person, at which time the requirements of this subchapter shall apply, unless that person moves the Court to rescind the certification and order and the Court grants the motion.
(e) Agencies in the District of Columbia to which the probation, parole, supervised release, or conditional release of a gun offender is transferred from another jurisdiction are authorized to inform the Chief of that transfer of supervision for purposes of implementing the provisions of subsection (d) of this section.
(f) Notwithstanding the court certification requirements of this subchapter, any person convicted of a gun offense in any jurisdiction other than the District of Columbia who is ordered by competent authority in that jurisdiction to register as a gun offender in the District of Columbia shall comply with the registration and other requirements of this subchapter.
D.C. Code § 7-1755 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1755
§ 7-1755. Manufacturer’s data retention and availability requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) A manufacturer shall:
  (1) Retain all data from testing conducted on cigarettes that are offered for sale in the District of Columbia pursuant to this subchapter for 3 years; and
  (2) Make the data available to the Mayor and the Attorney General for the District of Columbia upon written request to verify compliance with the performance standard required by this subchapter.
(b) Any manufacturer who fails to make copies of these reports available within 60 days of receiving a written request shall be subject to a penalty pursuant to § 7-1756 for each day after the 60th day that the manufacturer does not make the copies available.
D.C. Code § 7-743.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-743.01
§ 7-743.01. Generally.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department of Health shall oversee the Health Occupation Advisory Committees established under this subchapter.
(b) All appointments to the Health Occupation Advisory Committees shall be made by the Director of the Department of Health.
(c) The Department of Health shall provide facilities and other administrative support for the Health Occupation Advisory Committees, as determined by the Director.
(d) The Health Occupation Advisory Committees shall review applications for licensure to practice upon request of the Board of Medicine. The Health Occupation Advisory Committees shall submit their respective recommendations to the Board of Medicine for action.
(e) For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:
  (1) “Board of Medicine” means the Board of Medicine established pursuant to § 3-1202.03(a) .
  (2) “Health Occupation Advisory Committees” means the advisory committees established pursuant to this subchapter.
D.C. Code § 7-1208.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1208.01
§ 7-1208.01. Penalties under other laws.
Status: in_force

Any civil liability or criminal penalty imposed for violation of this chapter is, in addition to and not in lieu of, any civil or administrative remedy, penalty or sanction otherwise authorized by law. This chapter and the penalties prescribed for violations of this chapter shall not supersede but shall supplement all statutes of the District government and the United States government in which similar conduct is prohibited or regulated.
D.C. Code § 7-1203.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1203.04
§ 7-1203.04. Disclosures for collection of fees.
Status: in_force

(a) A mental health professional or mental health facility may disclose the administrative information necessary for the collection of his or its fee from the client to a person authorized by the mental health professional or mental health facility for the collection of a fee from such client if the client or client representative has received a written notification that the fee is due and has failed to arrange for payment with the mental health professional or mental health facility within a reasonable time after such notification.
(b) In the event of a claim in any civil action for the collection of such a fee, no additional mental health information shall be disclosed in litigation, except to the extent necessary:
  (1) To respond to a motion of the client or client representative for greater specificity; or
  (2) To dispute a defense or counterclaim.
D.C. Code § 7-2341.19 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23B / § 7-2341.19
§ 7-2341.19. Trauma care system.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor shall establish criteria for the designation of, and shall designate, one or more hospitals within the District of Columbia as specialized trauma care facilities.
(b) The Mayor may establish criteria for the designation of, and may designate, one or more hospitals within the District of Columbia as specialized care facilities for other types of commonly occurring medical emergencies.
(c) The Mayor may establish and maintain a database of information regarding trauma and emergency medical care services provided within the District of Columbia. All hospitals, health care facilities, and treatment facilities receiving emergency medical care patients, and all entities providing emergency medical care services, shall provide data to the Mayor as specified in rulemaking promulgated pursuant to this chapter.
(d) To the extent that trauma and emergency medical care records compiled and maintained by the Mayor, hospitals, other health care facilities, treatment facilities, or emergency medical services providers in connection with the trauma and emergency medical care information system pursuant to this chapter contain patient identifiable data, that data shall be maintained pursuant to applicable privacy laws.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.02
§ 7-1131.02. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Behavioral health” means a person’s overall social, emotional, and psychological well-being and development.
(1A) “Behavioral health assessment” means a more thorough and comprehensive examination by a mental health professional of the behavioral health issues and needs identified during an initial behavioral health screening by which the mental health professional shall identify the type and extent of the behavioral health problem and make recommendations for treatment interventions.
(1B) “Behavioral Health Ombudsman” or “Ombudsman” means the individual responsible for administering the Behavioral Health Ombudsman Program.
(1C) “Behavioral Health Ombudsman Program” or “Ombudsman Program” means the program established in § 7-1131.19 to provide District residents with assistance in accessing behavioral health programs and services.
(1D) “Behavioral health screening” means a brief process designed to identify youth who are at risk of having behavioral health disorders that warrant immediate attention, or intervention, or to identify the need for further assessment with a more comprehensive examination.
(1E) “Business associate” means any organization or person working in association with, or providing services to, a covered entity who handles or discloses Personal Health Information, as that term is interpreted in 45 CFR 160.103 pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, approved August 21, 1996 (110 Stat. 1936; 42 U.S.C. § 201, note) (“HIPAA”).
(1F) “Children or youth with mental health problems” means persons under 18 years of age, or persons under 22 years of age and receiving special education, youth, or child welfare services, who:
  (A) Have, or are at risk of having, a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder (including those of biological etiology) which substantially impairs the mental health of the person or is of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within the DSM-IV or the ICD-9-CM equivalent (and subsequent revisions), with the exception of substance abuse disorders, intellectual disability, and other developmental disorders, or seizure disorders, unless those exceptions co-occur with another diagnosable serious emotional disturbance; and
  (B) (i) Demonstrate either functional impairments or symptoms that significantly disrupt their academic or developmental progress or family and interpersonal relationships; or
    (ii) Have an emotional disturbance causing problems so severe as to require significant mental health intervention.
(2) “Consumers of mental health services” means adults, children, or youth who seek or receive mental health services or mental health supports funded or regulated by the Department.
(3) “Core services agency” means a community-based provider of mental health services and mental health supports that is certified by the Department and that acts as a clinical home for consumers of mental health services by providing a single point of access and accountability for diagnostic assessment, medication-somatic treatment, counseling and psychotherapy, community support services, and access to other needed services.
(4) “Court” means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
(5) “Cultural competence” means the ability of a provider to deliver mental health services and mental health supports in a manner that effectively responds to the languages, values, and practices present in the various cultures of the provider’s consumers of mental health services.
(6) “Department” means the Department of Mental Health.
(7) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Mental Health.
(8) “District” means the District of Columbia.
(9) “DSM-IV” means the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(10) “DSM-IV ‘V” Codes” means “V” codes as defined in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(10A) “DYRS” means the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services.
(11) “Hospital” means a public or private institution, or part thereof, operating in the District and licensed to provide inpatient care and certified to provide treatment for persons with physical or mental illness.
(12) “ICD-9-CM” means the most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases Code Manual.
(13) “Individual Plan of Care” means the individualized service plan for a child or youth with or at risk of mental health problems, including processes for the appropriate transition of youth receiving mental health services and mental health supports from the system of care for children, youth, and their families into the system of care for adults.
(14) “Individual Recovery Plan” means the individualized service plan for a person with mental illness.
(15) “Joint consent” means a process established by the Department to enable all participating providers to rely on a single form in which a consumer of mental health services consents to the use of his or her protected mental health information by participating providers in the Department’s organized health care arrangement, for the purposes of delivering treatment, obtaining payment for services and supports rendered, and performing certain administrative operations, such as quality assurance, utilization review, accreditation, and oversight.
(16) “Medical Assistance Administration” means the division of the District’s Department of Health responsible for administering the District’s Medical Assistance Program.
(17) “Medical Assistance Program” and “Medicaid Program” mean the program described in the Medicaid State Plan and administered by the Medical Assistance Administration pursuant to § 1-307.02(b) and title XIX of the Social Security Act, approved July 30, 1965 (79 Stat. 343; 42 U.S.C. § 1396 et seq.).
(18) “Mental health services” means the services funded or regulated by the Department for the purpose of addressing mental illness or mental health problems.
(19) “Mental health supports” means the supports funded or regulated by the Department for the purpose of addressing mental illness or mental health problems.
(19A) “Oak Hill Youth Center” means the secure juvenile facility currently operated by DYRS in Laurel, Maryland.
(20) “Organized health care arrangement,” means an organized system of health care in which more than one provider participates, and in which the participating providers hold themselves out to the public as participating in a joint arrangement, and either:
  (A) Participate in joint activities that include utilization review under Chapter 8 of Title 44 in which health care decisions by participating providers are reviewed by other participating providers or by a third party on their behalf; or
  (B) Participate in quality assessment and improvement activities under Chapter 8 of Title 44 in which mental health services or mental health supports provided by participating providers are assessed by other participating providers or by a third party on their behalf.
(21) “Participating provider” means a provider of mental health services or mental health supports that, through participation in the joint consent promulgated by the Department pursuant to § 7-1131.14(6) , joins the organized health care arrangement created by the Department.
(22) “Partnership Council” means the council appointed by the Director pursuant to § 7-1131.10 to advise him or her with respect to departmental matters.
(23) “Personal representative” means an individual, whether or not an attorney, designated by a consumer of mental health services to represent the consumer’s personal interests with regard to his or her mental health needs.
(24) “Persons with mental illness” means persons who:
  (A) Have a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder (including those of biological etiology) which substantially impairs the mental health of the person or is of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within the DSM-IV or its ICD-9-CM equivalent (and subsequent revisions) with the exception of DSM-IV “V” codes, substance abuse disorders, intellectual disability, and other developmental disorders, or seizure disorders, unless those exceptions co-occur with another diagnosable mental illness; and
  (B) (i) Are 18 years of age or over and are not consumers of special education, youth, or child welfare services; or
    (ii) Are 22 years of age or over.
(25) “Physician” means a person licensed under the laws of the District to practice medicine, or a person who practices medicine in the employment of the government of the United States.
(25A) “Program” means the nursing educational tuition assistance program for nurses employed by Saint Elizabeths Hospital established by § 7-1131.20 .
(26) “Protected mental health information” means information regulated by Chapter 12 of this title .
(27) “Provider” means an individual or entity that:
  (A) Is duly licensed or certified by the Department to provide mental health services or mental health supports; or
  (B) Has entered into an agreement with the Department to provide mental health services or mental health supports.
(28) “Regulate” means all non-professional certification, licensing, monitoring, and related functions, except fire inspections, food service inspections, the issuance of building permits and certificates of occupancy, all inspections relating to these permits and certificates, and all responsibilities under § 1-307.02 .
(29) “Residents of the District” means persons who voluntarily live in the District and have no intention of presently removing themselves from the District. The term “residents of the District” shall not include persons who live in the District solely for a temporary purpose. Residency shall not be affected by temporary absence from and the subsequent return or intent to return to the District. Residency shall not depend upon the reason that persons entered the District, except to the extent that it bears upon whether they are in the District for a temporary purpose.
(29A) “Secure Facilities” means Oak Hill Youth Center, the Youth Services Center, and any successor facilities or new secure facilities operated by or on behalf of DYRS for youth in DYRS custody.
(30) “System of care for adults” means a community support system for persons with mental illness that is developed through collaboration in the administration, financing, resource allocation, training, and delivery of services across all appropriate public systems. Each person’s mental health services and mental health supports are based on an Individual Recovery Plan, designed to promote recovery and develop social, community, and personal living skills, and to meet essential human needs, and includes the appropriate integrated, community-based outpatient services and inpatient care, outreach, emergency services, crisis intervention and stabilization, age-appropriate educational and vocational readiness and support, housing and residential treatment and support services, family and caregiver supports and education, and services to meet special needs, which may be delivered by both public and private entities.
(31) “System of care for children, youth, and their families” means a community support system for children or youth with mental health problems and their families, which is developed through collaboration in the administration, financing, resource allocation, training, and delivery of services across all appropriate public systems. Each child’s or youth’s mental health services and mental health supports are based on a single, child-and youth-centered, and family-focused Individual Plan of Care, encompassing all necessary and appropriate services and supports, which may be delivered by both public and private entities. Prevention, early intervention, and mental health services and mental health supports to meet individual and special needs are delivered in natural, nurturing, and integrated environments, recognize the importance of and support for the maintenance of enduring family relationships, and are planned and developed within the District and as close to the child’s or youth’s home as possible so that families need not relinquish custody to secure treatment for their children and youth.
(31A) “UDC” means the University of the District of Columbia.
(31B) “Youth” means an individual under 18 years of age residing in the District and those individuals classified as youth in the custody of DYRS and the Child and Family Services Agency who are 21 years of age or younger.
(32) “Youth Services Center” means the secure juvenile facility currently operated by DYRS in the District of Columbia.
D.C. Code § 7-2106 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21 / § 7-2106
§ 7-2106. Monitoring of residents placed outside District or in therapeutic care.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The Mayor and the Board of Education shall ensure that every resident receiving therapeutic care has an up-to-date, individualized treatment plan (“ITP”) composed of coordinated therapeutic, educational, and residential components. Each ITP shall be jointly formulated and approved by the Department of Human Services (“DHS”) and the District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) no later than 30 days after a child is determined to be in need of therapeutic care. As required by 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., a resident with a disability receiving therapeutic care and in need of special education shall also have a current individualized education program (“IEP”).
  (2) DHS and DCPS shall update each resident’s ITP no less than once a year. Copies of each resident’s current ITP and, if applicable, IEP shall be on file with both DHS and DCPS.
(b) (1) The Mayor and the Board of Education shall establish a youth residential monitoring committee (“monitoring committee”) that includes at a minimum representatives from DHS and DCPS. Each facility providing therapeutic care to a District child, whether located inside or outside the District, shall submit to the monitoring committee quarterly reports on that child’s progress in meeting his or her treatment and educational goals. With the exception of foster homes, each facility providing emergency or continuing care to a District child outside the District shall submit to the monitoring committee quarterly reports on that child’s physical, emotional, and educational development.
  (2) Quarterly reports submitted under paragraph (1) of this subsection shall be on forms jointly developed by DHS and DCPS and shall be made available at all judicial and administrative reviews of a child’s placement.
(c) The monitoring committee shall meet at least 4 times a year with the caseworker of each District child placed outside the District or in therapeutic care to review that child’s quarterly reports and, if the child is expected to be discharged in the near future, to determine whether an aftercare plan has been prepared pursuant to subsection (f) of this section. If the committee finds that a child’s current placement is inadequate, that a child’s ITP or IEP needs revision, or that a required aftercare plan is lacking, it shall within 15 days report its findings and recommendations to the Director of DHS and the Superintendent of Schools. DHS and DCPS shall adopt or reject these recommendations within 15 days after their receipt.
(d) (1) The monitoring committee shall at least once a year conduct an on-site assessment of each District child placed outside the District or in therapeutic care to determine:
    (A) The adequacy of the child’s placement or the extent of the facility’s compliance with the child’s ITP or IEP;
    (B) Whether the child’s ITP, IEP, or level of care needs revision;
    (C) Whether the child can receive equivalent care closer to home or in a less restrictive placement; and
    (D) Whether appropriate aftercare preparations have been made if the child is due to be discharged within 30 days.
  (2) Within 15 days after conducting an on-site assessment, the monitoring committee shall file a written report of its findings and recommendations with the Director of DHS and the Superintendent of Schools. If while conducting an assessment the committee observes 1 or more conditions that it believes are in violation of this chapter, a rule issued pursuant to this chapter, or any other District or federal law, it shall report these suspected violations to DCRA pursuant to § 7-2105(c) .
  (3) If the monitoring committee determines that a facility is not adequately meeting a child’s needs or is not in compliance with a child’s ITP or IEP, or if DCRA determines that a facility located outside the District is not in substantial compliance with District licensure standards, that facility shall be promptly notified of the necessary corrective actions. If the committee or DCRA is not satisfied that appropriate actions are being taken, it shall recommend to the Director of DHS and the Superintendent of Schools that the child be transferred to an appropriate alternative placement.
(e) The caseworker of each District child placed outside the District or in therapeutic care shall visit that child at least once a year. In meeting this requirement, the caseworker may accompany the monitoring committee when it conducts its on-site assessment under subsection (d) of this section.
(f) (1) The Mayor and the Board of Education shall ensure that, before a District child placed outside the District or in therapeutic care is brought home, he or she has a comprehensive aftercare plan composed of in-home supportive services and, if necessary, transitional living arrangements. Each child’s aftercare plan shall be jointly formulated and approved by DHS and DCPS no later than 30 days before the child leaves a facility.
  (2) The monitoring committee shall meet personally with each child’s aftercare worker at least twice in the 6 months following a child’s release into aftercare to review the continued adequacy of, and the extent of compliance with, the child’s aftercare plan. If the committee finds that a child’s aftercare plan needs revision or is not being carried out, it shall within 15 days report its findings and recommendations to the Director of DHS and the Superintendent of Schools. DHS and DCPS shall adopt or reject these recommendations within 15 days after their receipt.
(g) The Mayor and the Board of Education shall report annually to the Council on:
  (1) The total number of residents in therapeutic care, the total number of residents located outside the District, the facilities in which they are placed, the annual cost of these facilities, and the number of residents who have ITPs, IEPs, or aftercare plans;
  (2) The number of new residents in therapeutic care, the number of new residents placed outside the District, and the number, outcome, and length of stay of planned and unplanned discharges;
  (3) A summary of individual facility effectiveness in meeting the needs of residents in therapeutic care; and
  (4) A list of those facilities located outside the District that have been found not to be in substantial compliance with District licensure standards.
(h) Once rules have been issued under subsection (i) of this section, no District child shall reside in a facility located outside the District for more than 60 days if that facility has never been visited by the monitoring committee, the child’s caseworker, or representatives from DCRA.
(i) No later than 12 months after August 13, 1986, the Mayor and the Board of Education shall each issue rules, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , and consistent with 20 U.S.C. § 1401 et seq., to carry out the purposes of this section.
D.C. Code § 7-2124 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21A / § 7-2124
§ 7-2124. Personnel training.
Status: in_force

Hospitals shall have written policies and procedures to ensure that all personnel who provide care or information to a victim of sexual assault:
(1) Are trained to provide medically and factually accurate and objective information about prophylactic antibiotics for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception for the prevention of pregnancy to a victim of sexual assault;
(2) Actually provide that information to a victim of sexual assault; and
(3) Ensure immediate access to prophylactic antibiotics for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception for the prevention of pregnancy to each victim of sexual assault, if requested and such treatment is not medically contraindicated.
D.C. Code § 7-504.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-504.07
§ 7-504.07. Chairperson.
Status: in_force

The Commission shall select its own Chairperson, by vote.
D.C. Code § 7-2332 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23A / § 7-2332
§ 7-2332. Authority to execute Compact.
Status: in_force

The Mayor is hereby authorized to execute, on behalf of the District of Columbia, the Emergency Management Assistance Compact in the form substantially as follows:
Emergency Management Assistance Compact
I Purpose and Authorities (a) This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states that enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purposes of this compact, the term “states” is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions.
  (b) The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the Governor (Mayor) of the affected state(s), whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack.
  (c) This compact shall also provide for mutual cooperation in emergency-related exercises, testing, or other training activities using equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the giving and receiving of aid by party states or subdivision of party states during emergencies, such actions occurring outside actual declared emergency period. Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of the states’ National Guard forces, either in accordance with the National Guard Mutual Assistance Compact or by mutual agreement between states.
II General Implementation (a) Each party state entering into this compact recognizes that many emergencies transcend political jurisdictional boundaries and that intergovernmental coordination is essential in managing these and other emergencies under this compact. Each state further recognizes that there will be emergencies which require immediate access and present procedures to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective response to such an emergency. This is because few, if any, individual states have all the resources they may need in all types of emergencies of delivering resources to areas where emergencies exist.
  (b) The prompt, full, and effective utilization of resources of the participating states, including any resources on hand or available from the federal government or any other source, that are essential to the safety, care, and welfare of the people in the event of any emergency or disaster declared by a party state, shall be the underlying principle on which all articles of this compact shall be understood.
  (c) On behalf of the Governor (Mayor) of each state participating in the compact, the legally designated state official who is assigned responsibility for emergency management will be responsible for formulation of the appropriate interstate mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to implement this compact.
III Party State Responsibilities (a) It shall be the responsibility of each party state to formulate procedural plans and programs for interstate cooperation in the performance of the responsibilities listed in this article. In formulating such plans, and in carrying them out, the party states, insofar as practical, shall:
    (1) Review individual state hazards analyses and, to the extent reasonably possible, determine all those potential emergencies the party states might jointly suffer, whether due to natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, emergency aspects of resources shortages, civil disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack.
    (2) Review party states’ individual emergency plans and develop a plan that will determine the mechanism for the interstate management and provision of assistance concerning any potential emergency.
    (3) Develop interstate procedures to fill any identified gaps and to resolve any identified inconsistencies or overlaps in existing or developed plans.
    (4) Assist in warning communities adjacent to or crossing the state boundaries.
    (5) Protect and assure uninterrupted delivery of services, medicines, water, food, energy and fuel, search and rescue, and critical lifeline equipment, services, and resources, both human and material.
    (6) Inventory and set procedures for the interstate loan and deliver [sic] of human and material resources, together with procedures for reimbursement or forgiveness.
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    (7) Provide, to the extent authorized by law, for temporary suspension of any statutes or ordinances that restrict the implementation of the above responsibilities.
  (b) The authorized representative of a party state may request assistance of another party state by contacting the authorized representative of that state. The provisions of this compact shall apply only to requests for assistance made by and to authorized representatives. Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the request shall be confirmed in writing within 30 days of the verbal request. Requests shall provide the following information:
    (1) A description of the emergency service function for which assistance is needed, including, but not limited to, fire services, law enforcement, emergency medical, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, building inspection, planning and information assistance, mass care, resource support, health and medical services, and search and rescue.
    (2) The amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed, and a reasonable estimate of the length of time they will be needed.
    (3) The specific place and time for staging of the assisting party’s response and a point of contact at that location.
  (c) There shall be frequent consultation between state officials who have assigned emergency management responsibilities and other appropriate representatives of the party states with affected jurisdictions and the United States Government, with free exchange of information, plans, and resource records relating to emergency capabilities.
IV Limitations (a) Any party state requested to render mutual aid or conduct exercises and training for mutual aid shall take such action as is necessary to provide and make available the resources covered by this compact in accordance with the terms hereof; provided, that it is understood that the state rendering aid may withhold resources to the extent necessary to provide reasonable protection for such state.
  (b) Each party state shall afford to the emergency forces of any party state, while operating within its state limits under the terms and conditions of this compact, the same powers, except that of arrest unless specifically authorized by the receiving state, duties, rights, and privileges as are afforded forces of the state in which they are performing emergency services. Emergency forces will continue under the command and control of their regular leaders, but the organizational units will come under the operational control of the emergency services authorities of the state receiving assistance. These conditions may be activated, as needed, only subsequent to a declaration of a state of emergency or disaster by the Governor of the party state, or the Mayor of the District of Columbia, that is to receive assistance or upon commencement of exercises or training for mutual aid and shall continue so long as the exercises or training for mutual aid are in progress, the state of emergency or disaster remains in effect, or loaned resources remain in the receiving state(s), whichever is longer.
V Licenses and Permits Whenever any person holds a license, certificate, or other permit issued by any state party to the compact evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical, or other skills, and when such assistance is requested by the receiving party state, such person shall be deemed licensed, certified, or permitted by the state requesting assistance to render aid involving such skill to meet a declared emergency or disaster, subject to such limitations and conditions as the Governor of the requesting state, or Mayor of the District of Columbia, may prescribe by executive order or otherwise.
VI Liability Officers or employees of a party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be considered agents of the requesting state for tort liability and immunity purposes. No party state or its officers or employees rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be liable on account of any act or omission in good faith on the part of such forces while so engaged or on account of the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith. Good faith in this article shall not include willful misconduct, gross negligence, or recklessness.
VII Supplementary Agreements Inasmuch as it is probable that the pattern and detail of the machinery for mutual aid among two or more states may differ from that among the states that are party hereto, this compact contains elements of a broad base common to all states, and nothing herein contained shall preclude any state from entering into supplementary agreements with another state or affect any other agreements already in force between states. Supplementary agreements may comprehend, but shall not be limited to, provisions for evacuation and reception of injured and other persons and the exchange of medical, fire, police, public utility, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications personnel, and equipment and supplies.
VIII Compensation Each party state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces of that state and representatives of deceased members of such forces in case such members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
IX Reimbursement Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving such aid for any loss or damage to or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provisions of any service in answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with such requests; provided, that any aiding party state may assume in whole or in part such loss, damage, expense, or other cost, or may loan such equipment or donate such services to the receiving party state without charge or cost; and provided further, that any two or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements establishing a different allocation of costs among those states. Article VII expenses shall not be reimbursable under this article.
X Evacuation Plans for the orderly evacuation and interstate reception of portions of the civilian population as the result of any emergency or disaster of sufficient proportions to so warrant, shall be worked out and maintained between the party states and the emergency management/services directors of the various jurisdictions where any type of incident requiring evacuations might occur. Such plans shall be put into effect by request of the state from which evacuees come and shall include the manner of transporting such evacuees, the number of evacuees to be received in different areas, the manner in which food, clothing, housing, and medical care will be provided, the registration of evacuees, the providing of facilities for the notification of relatives or friends, and the forwarding of such evacuees to other areas or the bringing in of additional materials, supplies, and all other relevant factors. Such plans shall provide that the party state receiving evacuees and the party state from which the evacuees come shall mutually agree as to reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred in receiving and caring for such evacuees, for expenditures for transportation, food, clothing, medicines and medical care, and the like items. Such expenditures shall be reimbursed as agreed by the party state from which the evacuees come. After the termination of the emergency or disaster, the party state from which the evacuees come shall assume the responsibility for the ultimate support of repatriation of such evacuees.
XI Implementation (a) This compact shall become effective with respect to the District of Columbia immediately upon its enactment into law.
  (b) Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but such withdrawal shall not take effect until 30 days after the Governor of the withdrawing state, or the Mayor of the District of Columbia, has given notice in writing of such withdrawal to the Governors of all other party states (or to the Mayor of the District of Columbia). Such action shall not relieve the withdrawing state from obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal.
  (c) Duly authenticated copies of this compact and of such supplementary agreements as may be entered into shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each party state and with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other appropriate agencies of the United States Government.
XII Validity This compact shall be construed to effectuate the purposes stated in Article I hereof. If any provisions of this compact is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
XIII Additional Provisions Nothing in this compact shall authorize or permit the use of military force by the National Guard of a state at any place outside that state in any emergency for which the President is authorized by law to call into federal service the militia, of [ sic ] for any purpose for which the use of the Army or the Air Force would in the absence of express statutory authorization be prohibited under § 1385 of Title 18 of the United States Code  .
XIV District of Columbia Provisions (a) Absent congressional authority to the contrary, with respect to the District of Columbia, no provision of this contract shall supercede the requirements of 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A) or of D.C. Official Code § 1-204.46 .
  (b) The District of Columbia may purchase liability insurance to ensure against debts and obligations that may be incurred as a result of its participation in any mutual aid agreement authorized by, and entered into, pursuant to this compact.
D.C. Code § 7-1521.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1521.02
§ 7-1521.02. Persons eligible to execute gifts; nonacceptance by donee; rights of donee created by gift.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1141.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11C / § 7-1141.02
§ 7-1141.02. Establishment of the Department of Behavioral Health.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a separate, cabinet-level Department, subordinate to the Mayor, the Department of Behavioral Health.
(b) The Department shall be the successor-in-interest to the Department of Mental Health, established by Chapter 11A of this title [ § 7-1131.01 et seq.], and the Department of Health Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration, established in the Department of Health by the Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1996, effective July 17, 1996 [ § 1-1514.01 ].
D.C. Code § 7-1651.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16A / § 7-1651.02
§ 7-1651.02. Human papillomavirus public education campaign.
Status: in_force

By January 1, 2008, the Mayor shall initiate a public information campaign, including multiple HPV vaccine education forums in each ward, aimed at educating the public on:
(1) The connection between HPV and cervical cancer;
(2) The importance of protecting oneself against HPV infection;
(3) The value of screening for cervical cancer through regular pap tests; and
(4) The effectiveness and risks of the HPV vaccine.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.02
§ 7-1671.02. Use of medical cannabis.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other District law, a qualifying patient may purchase, possess, use, and administer medical cannabis, and purchase, possess, and use paraphernalia, in accordance with this chapter and the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 .
(b) Notwithstanding any other District law, a caregiver may obtain, possess, dispense, administer, and assist in the administration of medical cannabis to a qualifying patient, and obtain, possess, and use paraphernalia, for the sole purpose of assisting in the administration of medical cannabis to a qualifying patient in accordance with this chapter and the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 .
(b-1) When registering pursuant to § 7-1671.05 , a caregiver shall not be required to submit a criminal background check to ABCA.
(c) A qualifying patient may purchase, possess, and administer medical cannabis, and purchase, possess, and use paraphernalia, only for the treatment of a qualifying medical or dental condition or the side effects of a qualifying medical treatment, and only after having:
  (1) (A) Obtained a signed, written recommendation from an authorized practitioner within the last 2 years in accordance with § 7-1671.04 , except for individuals 21 years of age and older who shall be permitted to self-certify on a form provided by ABCA that they are utilizing cannabis for medical purposes as part of the registration process; and
    (B) Registered with ABCA pursuant to § 7-1671.05 ; or
  (2) Enrolled in another jurisdiction's medical cannabis program.
(c-1) (1) When a qualifying patient's or caregiver's registration identification card has expired or will expire at any time between March 1, 2020, and March 31, 2023, and the qualifying patient or caregiver has not submitted an application for a new registration identification card, the qualifying patient or caregiver may continue to obtain, purchase, possess, dispense, use, administer, and assist in the administration of, respectively, medical cannabis in accordance with this chapter and the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 until March 31, 2023.
  (2) On or after April 1, 2023, the qualifying patient or caregiver shall possess a valid registration identification card to continue to obtain, purchase, possess, dispense, use, administer, and assist in the administration of, respectively, medical cannabis.
(c-2) Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection (c) of this section, the ABC Board may, by rule, establish alternative or additional processes and procedures for qualifying patients to:
  (1) Register in the medical cannabis program; or
  (2) Obtain temporary or permanent approval to purchase medical cannabis from a retailer or internet retailer within one business day.
(d) A qualifying patient or caregiver shall only obtain, purchase, possess, dispense, use, administer, or assist in the administration of medical cannabis, or obtain, purchase, possess, or use paraphernalia obtained from a retailer or internet retailer licensed with ABCA pursuant to § 7-1671.05 .
(e) (1) A qualifying patient who is a minor may purchase, possess, use, and administer medical cannabis, and purchase, possess, and use paraphernalia, only after having received a recommendation from an authorized practitioner and registered with ABCA.
  (2) A signed, written statement from the minor qualifying patient's parent or legal guardian shall be submitted when registering with ABCA, which affirms that the parent or legal guardian:
    (A) Understands the qualifying medical or dental condition or qualifying medical or dental treatment of the minor;
    (B) Understands the potential benefits and adverse effects of the use of medical cannabis, generally, and specifically, in the case of the minor;
    (C) Consents to the use of medical cannabis for the minor's qualifying medical or dental condition or qualifying medical or dental treatment; and
    (D) Consents to, or designates another adult to, serve as the caregiver for the qualifying patient, and that the caregiver controls the acquisition, possession, dosage, and frequency of use of medical cannabis by the qualifying patient.
D.C. Code § 7-771.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.07
§ 7-771.07. Powers and duties of the Department.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department shall:
(1) Be the single state agency, successor to the Medical Assistance Administration, for the administration of the Medicaid Program under section 1902(a)(5) of the Social Security Act, approved July 30, 1965 (79 Stat. 344; 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(a)(5));
(2) Administer the D.C. HealthCare Alliance program and any other publicly funded health-care insurance program;
(3) Coordinate with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on all waivers, State Plan amendments, demonstration grants, and other opportunities to maximize federal assistance and fulfill the purposes of the Department as set forth in § 7-771.03 ;
(4) Coordinate with other District government agencies to ensure effective and efficient use of Medicaid dollars, including providing training and technical assistance to ensure proper and timely billing and claims processing;
(5) Cooperate with other District agencies to ensure coordinated health-care access and delivery for publicly funded health-care services;
(6) Collaborate with the District agency responsible for eligibility determination in monitoring enrollment and beneficiary-outreach efforts;
(7) Engage providers and clients in eligibility, access, quality-of-care, and reimbursement issues;
(8) Develop and maintain a comprehensive information-technology infrastructure that accurately and efficiently processes claims, interfaces with other necessary public, private, and nonprofit information-technology systems, and collects information for data analysis of trending, cost measurement, performance management, policy development, and strategic planning;
(9) Develop a long-term-care-finance infrastructure, in cooperation with other District agencies, including the Department of Disability Services, Department of Aging and Community Living, Long-Term Care Ombudsman, and DOH;
(10) Promote cost-containment initiatives through policy development, best-practice implementation, grant development, innovative strategies to leverage funding sources, and strategic planning;
(11) Develop an annual budget for the Department to be submitted to the Council by the Mayor, in accordance with § 1-204.42 ; and
(12) Exercise any other power or duty necessary to fulfill the purposes of the Department as set forth in § 7-771.03 .
(13) Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-3214 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 32 / § 7-3214
§ 7-3214. Rules.
Status: in_force

The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , may issue rules to implement the provisions of this subchapter .
D.C. Code § 7-1204.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1204.02
§ 7-1204.02. Civil commitment proceedings; extreme risk protection orders.
Status: in_force

(a) Mental health information may be disclosed by a mental health professional when and to the extent necessary to:
  (1) Initiate or seek civil commitment proceedings under § 21-541 ; or
  (2) Request an extreme risk protection order under subchapter X of Chapter 25 of this title .
D.C. Code § 7-1531.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1531.02
§ 7-1531.02. Applicability.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.
D.C. Code § 7-2507.09 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2507.09
§ 7-2507.09. Applicability of District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act.
Status: in_force

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.
D.C. Code § 7-2871.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28B / § 7-2871.03
§ 7-2871.03. Training program.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor shall establish, through rulemaking, a training program on:
  (1) The nature and risk of a concussion;
  (2) The criteria for the removal of an athlete from physical participation in an athletic activity and his or her return to it; and
  (3) The risks to an athlete of not reporting an injury and continuing to physically participate in the athletic activity.
(b) The Mayor shall determine, through rulemaking, which individuals shall be required to complete the training program.
(c) In addition to those individuals required to complete the training program, the Department of Health may make the program available to any interested individual, including school personnel, parents, students, and athletes.
D.C. Code § 7-875.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8E / § 7-875.02
§ 7-875.02. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Child-related educational program” means public and private schools, including pre-kindergarten, Head Start, child care, and special education.
(2) “Child-related health program” means Medicaid, Children Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”), Healthy Start, Healthy Families, Early Intervention, and private health insurance.
(3) “Child-related human or social services program” means children in foster care and Women, Infants and Children.
(4) “Children with special needs who reside or are receiving care in another state” means children:
  (A) With physical or mental disabilities or illnesses who reside or receive care in other states, because the District does not have the facilities, resources, or services to appropriately treat the child’s physical or mental disability or illness; and
  (B) Whose parents or legal guardians reside in the District;
(5) “Health benefits plan” means any accident and health insurance policy or certificate, hospital and medical services corporation contract, health maintenance organization subscriber contract, plan provided by a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or plan provided by another benefit arrangement. The term “health benefit plan” does not mean accident only, credit, or disability insurance; coverage of Medicare services or federal employee health plans pursuant to contracts with the United States government; Medicare supplemental or long-term care insurance; dental only or vision only insurance; specified disease insurance; hospital confinement indemnity coverage; limited benefit health coverage; coverage issued as a supplement to liability insurance, insurance arising out of a workers’ compensation or similar law; automobile medical payment insurance; medical expense and loss of income benefits; or insurance under which benefits are payable with or without regard to fault and that is statutorily required to be contained in any liability insurance policy or equivalent self-insurance.
(6) “Health insurer” means any person that provides one or more health benefit plans or insurance in the District of Columbia, including an insurer, a hospital and medical services corporation, a fraternal benefit society, a health maintenance organization, a multiple employer welfare arrangement, or any other person providing a plan of health insurance subject to the authority of the Commissioner.
(7) “Uniform health form” means a standardized health assessment form developed by the Mayor for use when enrolling a child in child-related educational, health, and human or social services programs.
D.C. Code § 7-1303.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1303.04
§ 7-1303.04. Petition for commitment of individual 14 years of age or older filed by parent or guardian or by the District.
Status: in_force

(a) Repealed.
(a-1) (1) Except as provided in subsection (b-1) of this section, no person shall be newly committed under this chapter on or after May 5, 2018.
  (2) For a person committed by written petition of a parent or guardian before May 5, 2018, the continued commitment of the person shall be governed by § 7-1304.11(a) .
(b) Repealed.
(b-1) For a person found incompetent in a criminal case, a written petition by the District may be filed with the Court to have the person committed to a facility. Upon the filing of the petition, the Court shall promptly conduct a hearing in accordance with the procedures set forth in subchapter IV of this chapter .
(c) The facility, its sponsoring agency, or the Department on Disability Services shall provide a written certification to the Court, before commitment to the facility is ordered, that the habilitation indicated by the individual habitation plan will be implemented.
D.C. Code § 7-771.07b — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.07b
§ 7-771.07b. Medicaid reserve.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2123 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21A / § 7-2123
§ 7-2123. Access to emergency care for victims of sexual assault.
Status: in_force

(a) All hospitals that provide emergency care to victims of sexual assault shall:
  (1) Provide each victim of sexual assault written information developed pursuant to § 7-2122 ;
  (2) Provide each victim of sexual assault an oral explanation of the written information distributed pursuant to paragraph (1) of this section;
  (3) Inform each victim of sexual assault, orally and in writing, in a language that the victim understands, of the:
    (A) Victim of sexual assault's rights under § 23-1908 ; and
    (B) Option to be provided, by the hospital, with prophylactic antibiotics for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception for the prevention of pregnancy;
  (4) Consistent with accepted medical practice and protocols, immediately provide prophylactic antibiotics for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases and emergency contraception for the prevention of pregnancy to each victim of sexual assault, if the victim requests it and if the requested treatment is not medically contraindicated; and
  (5) If the sexual assault victim, who is 13 years of age or older, consents, immediately notify the sexual assault victim advocate dispatch system described in § 23-1909(e) .
D.C. Code § 7-2008 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2008
§ 7-2008. Annual report by Mayor.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-761.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7C / § 7-761.04
§ 7-761.04. Organization.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department shall have sufficient staff, supervisory personnel, and resources to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
(b) The Director shall have the authority to organize the Department as the Director may determine is necessary and appropriate to carry out the Department’s mission.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.08
§ 7-1131.08. Appointment and duties of General Counsel.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department shall have a General Counsel or the equivalent, appointed by the Attorney General as an employee of the Office of the Attorney General, after consultation with the Director of the Department. The General Counsel or the equivalent shall:
  (1) Be an attorney admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia and qualified by experience and training to advise the Department with respect to legal issues related to its powers and duties;
  (2) Be in the Senior Executive Attorney Service as an at-will employee under the direction and control of the Attorney General;
  (3) Be subject to all applicable provisions of subchapter VIII-B of Chapter 6 of Title 1 ;
  (4) Have an attorney-client relationship with the Department;
  (5) Advocate vigorously for the Director’s positions on legal issues, and if that advocacy poses a conflict with a legal position of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, seek exemption from the Attorney General’s supervision as to that position, in accordance with § 1-608.55(b) ; and
  (6) Be subject to evaluation, discipline, and transfer by the Attorney General, after consultation with the Director.
(b) This section shall apply as of October 1, 2005.
D.C. Code § 7-2426 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 24B / § 7-2426
§ 7-2426. Sunset. [Expired].
Status: repealed

Expired.
D.C. Code § 7-2505.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2505.01
§ 7-2505.01. Sales and transfers prohibited.
Status: in_force

No person or organization shall sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any firearm, destructive device, ghost gun, or ammunition in the District except as provided in § 7-2502.10(c) , § 7-2505.02 , § 7-2507.05 , § 7-2510.07 , or § 7-2510.09 .
D.C. Code § 7-1304.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1304.02
§ 7-1304.02. Representation by counsel.
Status: in_force

Persons who have been committed, or whose commitment is sought pursuant to § 7-1303.04(b-1) , have the right to be represented by counsel, retained or appointed by the Court, in any proceeding held before the Court in accordance with this chapter , and they shall be informed by the Court of this right. The Court shall appoint counsel to represent the person. Whenever possible, counsel shall be appointed who has had experience in the intellectual disability area. Counsel appointed to represent persons who are unable to pay for such counsel shall be awarded compensation by the Court for his or her services in an amount determined by the Court to be fair and reasonable.
D.C. Code § 7-1803.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 18 / § 7-1803.05
§ 7-1803.05. Reporting of information; escrow installments.
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than 20 calendar days after the end of each calendar quarter, and more frequently if so directed by the Mayor, each Wholesaler shall submit such information as the Mayor requires to facilitate compliance with this part, including a list, by Brand Family, of the total number of cigarettes, or, in the case of roll your own, the equivalent stick count, for which the Wholesaler affixed stamps during the previous calendar quarter or otherwise paid the tax due for such cigarettes. The Wholesaler shall maintain, and make available to the Mayor, all invoices and documentation of sales of all Non-Participating Manufacturer cigarettes and any other information relied upon in reporting to the Mayor for a period of 5 years.
(b) The Attorney General is authorized to disclose any information to the Mayor received under this part and requested by the Mayor for purposes of determining compliance with and enforcing the provisions of this part. The Attorney General and the Mayor shall share with each other the information received under this part, and may share such information with other federal, state, District, or local agencies only for purposes of enforcement of this part, part A of this subchapter , or corresponding laws of other jurisdictions. The Attorney General may also disclose the information received under this part with the data clearinghouse created to implement the term sheet agreed to by the District and Participating Manufacturers, and given effect by a March 12, 2013, arbitral award.
(c) The Mayor may require, at any time, from the Non-Participating Manufacturer, proof from the financial institution in which the Manufacturer has established a Qualified Escrow Fund, for the purpose of compliance with § 7-1801.02(2) , of the amount of money in the fund, exclusive of interest, the amount and date of each deposit to the fund, and the amount and date of each withdrawal from the fund.
(d) In addition to the information required to be submitted pursuant to this part, the Mayor may require a Wholesaler or Tobacco Product Manufacturer to submit any additional information, including samples of the packaging or labeling of each Brand Family, as is necessary to enable the Mayor to determine whether a Tobacco Product Manufacturer is in compliance with this part.
(e) To promote compliance with this part, the Mayor may promulgate regulations requiring a Tobacco Product Manufacturer, subject to the requirements of § 7-1803.03(a)(2) , to make the escrow deposits required in quarterly installments during the year in which the sales covered by such deposits are made. The Mayor may require production of information sufficient to enable the Mayor to determine the adequacy of the amount of the installment deposit.
D.C. Code § 7-1521.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1521.03
§ 7-1521.03. Persons who may become donees; purposes for which gifts may be made.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-226 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-226
§ 7-226. Regulations.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-835 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8A / § 7-835
§ 7-835. Committee on Metabolic Disorders — Composition; term of office; compensation; vacancies; chairperson; meetings.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-531.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-531.08
§ 7-531.08. Status of volunteers; reimbursement.
Status: in_force

Volunteers shall not, by virtue of their participation in the program or a demonstration project, be entitled to monetary compensation or considered for any purpose to be employees or agents of either the District or a sponsor. Sponsors may reimburse volunteers for necessary expenses incident to their provision of targeted or demonstration project services, attendance at pre-service or in-service training, or performance of administrative tasks in direct support of the program or demonstration project.
D.C. Code § 7-863.03a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8C / § 7-863.03a
§ 7-863.03a. Transfer from Department of Human Services; continuation.
Status: in_force

(a) All positions, personnel, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available to the Department of Human Services that support functions related to the responsibilities of the Early Care and Education Administration and the Early Intervention Program and all of the powers, duties, and functions delegated to the Department of Human Services concerning the establishment, development, and institution of functions related to the Early Care and Education Administration and the Early Intervention Program are transferred to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, established by § 38-2601 . The transfer shall be implemented in accordance with the transition plan required by § 38-2605.01 .
(b) All rules, orders, obligations, determinations, grants, contracts, licenses, and agreements of the Board of Education, the District of Columbia Public Schools, the Department of Human Services, or the University of the District of Columbia relating to functions transferred to the Office of the State Superintendent of Education under subsection (a) of this section shall remain in effect according to their terms until lawfully amended, repealed, or modified.
D.C. Code § 7-1141.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11C / § 7-1141.05
§ 7-1141.05. Purpose of the Department.
Status: in_force

The Department shall:
(1) Ensure the provision of high-quality behavioral health services by establishing District-wide behavioral health standards and policies;
(2) Foster and promote behavioral health education and disease prevention;
(3) Provide high-quality prevention, treatment, and recovery support services related to mental health disorders, addictions, and the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the District;
(4) Develop and maintain an efficient and cost-effective behavioral health care financing system; and
(5) Implement, monitor, and evaluate the District’s strategic behavioral health plan.
D.C. Code § 7-2814 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28 / § 7-2814
§ 7-2814. Collection of fines and fees.
Status: in_force

(a) All fines, collateral and fees collected pursuant to this chapter shall be paid into the General Fund of the District of Columbia.
(b) A fine or collateral is due and payable under this chapter upon default or a finding at trial in favor of the District or upon the failure of a person to answer a notice of violation within 15 days as provided in § 7-2812(e) .
(c) Failure of a person to pay a fine or collateral when due shall cause such fine or collateral to be due and payable in twice the original amount not to exceed $300.
(d) The District of Columbia shall have a lien upon any amount due and payable as a fine or collateral pursuant to this chapter. However, no such lien shall be effective unless: (1) the District shall have filed in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, in a docket provided for such liens, a written statement containing the name and address of the violator and the date and approximate place of the violation; and (2) the District shall have given notice of the filing of such lien to the violator. Thereafter, the District is authorized to file suit in the amount of its lien.
D.C. Code § 7-303 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 3 / § 7-303
§ 7-303. Medical examination or treatment not required.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter or any rules or regulations issued pursuant to this chapter shall be construed to compel a person with cancer to submit to medical examination or treatment.
D.C. Code § 7-2341.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23B / § 7-2341.06
§ 7-2341.06. Flight emergency medical services personnel: certification required.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no person shall perform the duties of flight emergency medical services personnel in the District, whether for compensation or not for compensation, without first having obtained a certification from the Mayor to do so.
(b) An applicant for certification as flight emergency medical services personnel shall be certified as emergency medical services personnel pursuant to this chapter, or shall be licensed pursuant to Chapter 12 of Title 3 [ § 3-1201.01 et seq.], in addition to obtaining special certification from the Mayor to perform his or her duties in an airborne setting.
(c) An applicant for certification as flight emergency medical services personnel shall establish to the satisfaction of the Mayor that he or she meets all applicable requirements set forth in this chapter and in rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter.
D.C. Code § 7-1303.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1303.03
§ 7-1303.03. Application by individual for out-patient nonresidential habilitation.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2509.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2509.02
§ 7-2509.02. Application requirements.
Status: in_force

(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 obtained a registration certificate for the pistol that the person is applying to carry concealed;
  (3) (A) Does not currently suffer from a mental illness or condition that creates a substantial risk that he or she is a danger to himself or herself or others; or
    (B) If he or she has suffered in the previous 5 years from a mental illness or condition that created a substantial risk that he or she was a danger to himself or herself or others, no longer suffers from a mental illness or condition that creates a substantial risk that he or she is a danger to himself or herself or others;
  (4) Has completed a firearms training course or combination of courses, conducted by an instructor (or instructors) certified by the Chief, which includes at least 16 hours of training, and covers the following:
    (A) Firearm safety;
    (B) Firearm nomenclature;
    (C) Basic principles of marksmanship;
    (D) Care, cleaning, maintenance, loading, unloading, and storage of pistols;
    (E) Situational awareness, conflict management, and use of deadly force;
    (F) Selection of pistols and ammunition for defensive purposes; and
    (G) All applicable District and federal firearms laws, including the requirements of this unit, Chapter 45 of Title 22 [ § 22-4501 et seq.], and District law pertaining to self-defense;
  (5) Has completed at least 2 hours of range training, conducted by an instructor certified by the Chief, including shooting a qualification course of 50 rounds of ammunition from a maximum distance of 15 yards (45 feet); and
  (6) Has complied with any procedures the Chief may establish by rule.
(b) An applicant shall satisfy the requirements of subsection (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this section with a certification from a firearms instructor that the applicant:
  (1) Demonstrated satisfactory completion of the requirements of subsection (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this section; and
  (2) Possesses the proper knowledge, skills, and attitude to carry a concealed pistol.
(c) An applicant may be exempt from some or all of the requirements of subsection (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this section if the applicant has submitted evidence that he or she has received firearms training in the United States military or has otherwise completed firearms training conducted by a firearms instructor that, as determined by the Chief, is equal to or greater than that required under subsection (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this section.
(d) An applicant for a license may satisfy any component of the requirements of subsection (a)(4) and (a)(5) of this section by demonstrating to the satisfaction of the Chief that the applicant has met that particular component as part of a successful application to carry a concealed pistol issued by the lawful authorities of any state or subdivision of the United States.
(e) (1) An applicant shall sign an oath or affirmation attesting to the truth of all the information required by § 22-4506 and this section.
  (2) Any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement made for purposes of an application for a license to carry a concealed pistol pursuant to this unit shall be made under penalty of perjury pursuant to § 22-2402 .
(f) An applicant is required to appear for an in-person interview at the MPD headquarters for purposes including verification of the applicant’s identity and verification of the information submitted as part of the application process for a license.
(g) Any person whose application has been denied may, within 15 days after the date of the notice of denial, appeal to the Office of Administrative Hearings pursuant to § 7-2509.08 .
D.C. Code § 7-791.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7F / § 7-791.01
§ 7-791.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) For purposes of this chapter , the term:
  (1) "High-need healthcare career" means a career as nursing assistive personnel, an emergency medical technician, a paramedic, or any healthcare profession as may be determined by the Mayor.
  (2) "Program" means the High-Need Healthcare Career Scholarships and Supports Program established pursuant to this chapter .
D.C. Code § 7-225 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-225
§ 7-225. Penalties.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2507.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2507.03
§ 7-2507.03. Firing ranges.
Status: in_force

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 principal officers, the types of weapons fired there, the number and types of weapons normally stored there, the days and hours of operation, and such other information as the Chief shall require.
D.C. Code § 7-231.27 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.27
§ 7-231.27. Fees.
Status: in_force

(a) The Registrar shall prescribe by rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 the fees to be paid for the following services:
  (1) Processing an application to amend a vital record;
  (2) Certifying records, whether paper or electronic, or searching the files when no certificate is issued;
  (3) Providing copies of or information contained on live birth, death, and fetal death records for health research, statistical, or administrative purposes, or in response to subpoena or court order;
  (4) Verifying information contained on live birth, death, fetal death, and domestic partnership records when the information is provided. Verification of vital events may only be provided to government agencies authorized by the Registrar;
  (5) Processing an application to register a delayed report of a vital event;
  (6) Replacing a live birth record subsequent to adoption, establishment of parentage, paternity acknowledgment, change in gender designation, or court order;
  (7) Providing personally identifiable information from vital records data to a health researcher or an authorized government agency;
  (8) Providing programming and analytic services in response to statistical data requests;
  (9) Issuing a permit for final disposition or a permit to disinter human remains, or as otherwise required by law;
  (10) Providing genealogical search services;
  (10A) Issuing a certificate of stillbirth; and
  (11) Providing any other service as determined by the Registrar.
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, the fee for a certificate of birth shall be waived for:
  (1) An individual released from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons ("BOP"), for one year after the individual is released from the custody of the BOP; and
  (2) An individual in the custody of the BOP at a halfway house in the District.
D.C. Code § 7-1703.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1703.01
§ 7-1703.01. Designated nonsmoking areas in restaurants; new construction and major renovation to existing restaurants; smoking areas.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the owner, manager, or person in charge of any restaurant having a seating capacity of 50 or more shall designate at least 25% of the total seating capacity as a nonsmoking area. Bar and lounge seating in the restaurant is excluded from this total seating capacity calculation. Smoking shall be prohibited in these nonsmoking areas even if, after a certain hour, food is no longer served.
(b) Any new construction for the purpose of establishing a restaurant or major renovation, performed on or after March 29, 1988, to an existing restaurant, which has a seating capacity of 50 or more, shall contain a nonsmoking area that is at least 50% of the total seating capacity. Bar and lounge seating in the restaurant is excluded from this total seating capacity calculation. Smoking shall be prohibited in these nonsmoking areas even if, after a certain hour, food is no longer served. In accordance with § 7-1705(c) , the Mayor shall define the term “major renovation”.
(c) (1) In areas where smoking is permitted pursuant to any provision of this subchapter, physical barriers or separate rooms may be used to the greatest extent possible to minimize the smoke in adjacent nonsmoking areas. Ventilation shall be in compliance with the District of Columbia laws and rules governing indoor ventilation.
  (2) No area shall be designated as a smoking area where smoking is prohibited by the Fire Marshal or by other District of Columbia laws or rules.
  (3) Smoking areas shall comply with all laws and rules of the District of Columbia.
D.C. Code § 7-1614 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16 / § 7-1614
§ 7-1614. Designation of an initiative coordinator.
Status: in_force

The Director of the Department of Health shall designate an initiative coordinator, who shall be an employee of the Department of Health and qualified by experience and training to administer the initiative.
D.C. Code § 7-661.12 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6B / § 7-661.12
§ 7-661.12. Claims by District government for costs incurred.
Status: in_force

If the District government incurs costs resulting from the death of a qualified patient ingesting a covered medication pursuant to this chapter in a public place, the District government shall have a claim against the estate of the qualified patient to recover such costs and reasonable attorney fees related to enforcing the claim.
D.C. Code § 7-503.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-503.07
§ 7-503.07. Senior Strategic Plan.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-3008 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 30 / § 7-3008
§ 7-3008. Benefits.
Status: in_force

(a) APRA shall formulate guidelines that give priority for enrollment in the Program to any eligible minor, pregnant woman, or the parent, guardian, or other person who has legal custody of a minor.
(b) (1) A client with no dependent children shall receive a maximum of up to $20,000 per year, subject to the availability of funds in the Fund. A client with a dependent child shall receive a maximum of up to $40,000 per year, subject to the availability of funds in the Fund and the discretion of the Director of the Department of Health.
  (2) The Director of the Department of Health is authorized to increase the maximum amounts set forth in this subsection to adjust for inflation.
(c) By waiver, approved by the Administrator of APRA, expenditures in excess of the maximum amounts stated in subsection (b) of this section may be authorized where good cause is shown.
(d) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to create an entitlement to substance abuse treatment during any fiscal year if no funds remain available to the District government under a District or federal appropriation that has been enacted for the specific purpose of providing substance abuse treatment services.
D.C. Code § 7-1306.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1306.02
§ 7-1306.02. Severability.
Status: in_force

Should any provision of this chapter be declared to be unconstitutional or beyond the statutory authority of the Council, the remaining provisions of this chapter shall remain in effect.
D.C. Code § 7-1721.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1721.05
§ 7-1721.05. Package requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall sell or distribute to any person within the District of Columbia any cigarettes except in packages containing no less than 20 cigarettes.
(b) This section does not apply to a tobacco specialty store.
(c) Repealed.
(d) Any license to sell tobacco products issued pursuant to § 47-2404 may be suspended for a first or second violation of subsection (a) of this section. The license shall be revoked for a third or subsequent violation of subsection (a) of this section.
D.C. Code § 7-651.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.10
§ 7-651.10. Training and education.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.11
§ 7-1671.11. Liability.
Status: in_force

(a) No liability shall be imposed by virtue of this chapter upon any duly authorized District officer engaged in the enforcement of any law relating to controlled substances.
(b) The District shall not be held liable for any deleterious outcomes from the use of medical cannabis, including the acts or omissions of any qualifying patient attributed to the use of medical cannabis.
D.C. Code § 7-651.17 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.17
§ 7-651.17. Appropriations.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2004 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2004
§ 7-2004. Eligibility.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-757.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7B-iii / § 7-757.04
§ 7-757.04. Duties of the Health Literacy Council.
Status: in_force

(a) The Health Literacy Council shall:
  (1) Meet at least quarterly;
  (2) Create and operate under its own rules of procedure;
  (3) Develop a plan to be submitted to the Mayor and the Council within 6 months after March 6, 2018, for the coordination of the District's health literacy efforts; and
  (4) Submit to the Mayor and the Council an annual report and recommendations on the health literacy status of the District, with the first health literacy report and recommendations, to be delivered within 12 months of March 6, 2018.
(b) In the first annual health literacy report required by subsection (a)(4) of this section, the Health Literacy Council shall endeavor to address, among other issues:
  (1) Matters related to District residents' health care consumer rights;
  (2) Access to health care education and health literacy levels;
  (3) An evaluation of current health literacy level in the District and defined metrics to measure health literacy improvement over time;
  (4) An assessment of the funding and resources necessary to support health education, care coordination services, and the explanation of health literacy initiatives; and
  (5) An assessment on how to reduce health disparities through health literacy, and plans to meet the health literacy needs of older adults, residents with disabilities, residents with English as a second language, residents with minimal Internet access, and residents applying for health care for the first time.
D.C. Code § 7-1907 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1907
§ 7-1907. Ex parte temporary protection order.
Status: in_force

(a) If a petition filed in accordance with § 7-1906(a) is supported by affidavit and alleges the existence of an immediate, substantial risk of life-threatening harm to an adult who the Department has determined is in need of protective services, the court may, upon a finding of probable cause and in accordance with § 7-1906(e) , grant any relief listed in § 7-1906(d) immediately and without a hearing by issuing an ex parte temporary protection order. The Attorney General shall ensure that, within 48 hours after the issuance of such an order, notice of the hearing date and copies of the petition, supporting affidavit(s), and order are served on the same parties and in the same manner described in § 7-1906(b) .
(b) An ex parte temporary protection order shall remain effective for such period as the court may specify until a hearing is held and the petition for a provisional protection order granted or denied pursuant to § 7-1906 . The court may modify or rescind an ex parte temporary protection order upon the motion of any person and for good cause shown.
D.C. Code § 7-231.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.10
§ 7-231.10. Infants of unknown parentage.
Status: in_force

(a) An individual who assumes legal custody of a live born infant of unknown parentage shall file with the Registrar a report of live birth that establishes the facts of live birth. The report shall be submitted to the Registrar within 5 days after the individual obtains custody and shall include the following information:
  (1) The date and place the child was found;
  (2) The sex and approximate birth date of the child;
  (3) The name and address of the individual or institution with whom the child has been placed for care;
  (4) The name and address of the individual or institution submitting the report;
  (5) The name given to the child by the custodian of the child; and
  (6) Any other data required by the Registrar.
(b) The place where the child was found shall be entered as the place of live birth.
(c) Information submitted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall constitute the report of live birth for the child.
(d) If the child is identified and a live birth registration is found or obtained, the report submitted pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and any live birth registration resulting from that report shall be voided and placed in a sealed file and shall not be subject to inspection except upon order of the court or as provided by rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 .
D.C. Code § 7-2507.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2507.07
§ 7-2507.07. Public education program.
Status: in_force

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.
D.C. Code § 7-702.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7 / § 7-702.05
§ 7-702.05. Complaint investigation.
Status: in_force

(a) The ombudsman and his or her designee shall have access to any record that is necessary to carry out his or her responsibilities under this chapter.
(b) The ombudsman or his or her designee may initiate an investigation of a long-term care facility independent of the receipt of a specific complaint.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.06
§ 7-1131.06. Appointment and duties of Chief Financial Officer.
Status: in_force

The Department shall have a Chief Financial Officer (“Department CFO”), who shall be appointed by the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia (“District’s CFO”) in collaboration with the Director. The Department CFO shall:
(1) Be qualified by experience and training to carry out accounting, budgeting, and financial management functions;
(2) Directly report to, be ultimately responsible to, and be under the supervisory direction of the District’s CFO, through the Director;
(3) Engage in the accounting, budgeting, and financial management functions authorized by the District’s CFO;
(4) Serve as a member of the Department’s management team;
(5) Advocate for and advance the policy objectives of the Director, to the extent consistent with the Department CFO’s ultimate responsibility to and supervisory control by the District’s CFO; and
(6) Be subject to evaluation, discipline, and transfer by the District’s CFO, in collaboration with the Director.
D.C. Code § 7-531.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-531.04
§ 7-531.04. Service credits.
Status: in_force

(a) To initiate the program, the Mayor shall establish a pool of service credits to be awarded to eligible persons who are in need of targeted services. The Mayor may award credits to eligible persons directly from this pool or may distribute all or part of these credits to sponsors who shall in turn be authorized to award them. The awarding of credits to eligible persons shall be commensurate with the availability of volunteers.
(b) In addition to the pool of service credits established under subsection (a) of this section, a sponsor may, with the prior written approval of the Mayor, establish its own pool of service credits to be awarded to eligible persons. In order to receive this approval, a sponsor shall satisfy the Mayor that it has resources and contingency plans sufficient to meet the obligations imposed by § 7-531.05 .
(c) (1) Volunteers who provide targeted services shall earn 1 service credit for each hour of targeted services provided.
  (2) If authorized by the Mayor, volunteers may also earn service credits for the completion of pre-service and in-service training and for the performance of administrative tasks in direct support of the program. Service credits earned in this manner shall be computed at a rate of 1 credit for every 2 hours of training or administrative service.
(d) (1) A volunteer who has service credits may transfer all or part of those credits, either directly or through a sponsor, to an eligible person. Credits thus transferred may not be retransferred.
  (2) A volunteer who has service credits may transfer all or part of those credits to the Mayor or a sponsor for the purpose of replenishing a pool of service credits established under subsection (a) or (b) of this section.
(e) Except as otherwise provided by § 7-531.05 or the rules issued by the Mayor under § 7-531.10 , an eligible person may at any time exchange service credits that he or she has earned, received by transfer, or been awarded for an equal number of hours of any targeted service. The Mayor or a sponsor shall determine whether a requested service is a targeted service and whether the requestor is an eligible person.
D.C. Code § 7-742.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-742.11
§ 7-742.11. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this subchapter , the term:
  (1) "Department" means the Department of Health.
  (2) "Food establishment" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 48-102(5) .
  (3) "Microenterprise home kitchen business means a business that:
    (A) Operates out of a non-commercial kitchen facility located in a private home and is operated by a resident of the home where ready-to-eat food is handled, stored, or prepared to be offered for sale;
    (B) Sells ready-to-eat food products directly to consumers in accordance with § 7-742.12 and regulations adopted by the Department of Health;
    (C) Has obtained a home occupancy permit from the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection pursuant to section 203 of Title 11 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (11 DCMR § 203);
    (D) Does not prepare food with processes that require a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Plan pursuant to section 4202 of Title 25-A of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (25-A DCMR § 4202);
    (E) Does not include food manufacturing, and does not prepare alcohol-infused food products or food products containing cannabis, CBD, Kava, Kratom or any other unapproved food additive;
    (F) Is not a catering business, cottage food business, bed and breakfast, residence-based group home facility, or food truck;
    (G) Meets labeling requirements set forth in rules issued by the Department; and
    (H) Has applied for and is otherwise eligible for a vending site permit under Chapter 1A of Title 37 .
  (4) "Microenterprise home kitchen permit" means a permit issued by the Department to an operator for the purpose of operating a microenterprise home kitchen business.
  (5) "Operator" means an individual who resides in the private home and who manages or controls the microenterprise home kitchen business.
  (6) "Ready-to-eat food" means:
    (A) Fully cooked food, including, but not limited to, meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables;
    (B) Raw fruit and vegetables that are washed and offered for sale whole or chopped;
    (C) Any other time or temperature control food that is cooked to the temperature and time required for the specific food in accordance with regulations made by the Department; or
    (D) A bakery item for which further cooking is not required for food safety.
  (7) "Time or temperature control food" means food that requires time or temperature controls for safety to limit pathogenic microorganism growth or toxin formation.
D.C. Code § 7-123 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-123
§ 7-123. Administrative support.
Status: in_force

The Department of Health shall assist with the administrative functions of the Mayor’s Council as feasible and as not otherwise provided.
D.C. Code § 7-531.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-531.10
§ 7-531.10. Rules.
Status: in_force

The Mayor shall, within 8 months after September 13, 1986, and pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , issue all rules necessary to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. These rules may include, but shall not necessarily be limited to, standards and procedures with respect to the following:
(1) Volunteer qualifications, screening, pre-service and in-service training, monitoring, and termination;
(2) Minimum liability and accident insurance for volunteers;
(3) Sponsor qualifications;
(4) The awarding of service credits;
(5) Minimum hours that a volunteer must be available;
(6) Weekly and annual limits on the number of service credits a volunteer may earn;
(7) The delayed vesting of or ability to use service credits earned for pre-service training or the performance of administrative tasks;
(8) Mayoral and sponsor notification of service credit transfers;
(9) Contingency planning and volunteer reserves;
(10) Program evaluation and the responsibilities of sponsor advisory committees; and
(11) Demonstration projects.
D.C. Code § 7-2421 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 24B / § 7-2421
§ 7-2421. Definitions.
Status: repealed

Expired.
D.C. Code § 7-105 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-105
§ 7-105. Report by Director.
Status: in_force

Said Director of the Department of Human Services shall report in writing annually to said Mayor of the District of Columbia, and so much oftener as he shall require.
D.C. Code § 7-1203.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1203.05
§ 7-1203.05. Disclosures for research, auditing and program evaluation.
Status: in_force

In addition to the disclosures authorized pursuant to Chapter 2B of this title [ § 7-241 et seq.], a mental health professional or mental health facility may disclose mental health information to qualified personnel, if necessary, for the purpose of conducting scientific research or management audits, financial audits or program evaluation of the mental health professional or mental health facility; provided, that such personnel have demonstrated and provided assurances, in writing, of their ability to insure compliance with the requirements of this chapter. Such personnel shall not identify, directly or indirectly, an individual client in any reports of such research, audit or evaluation, or otherwise disclose client identities in any manner; except, that de-identified data may be shared in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, approved August 21, 1996 (110 Stat. 1936; 42 U.S.C. § 1320d   et seq.).
D.C. Code § 7-651.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.11
§ 7-651.11. Liability.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-121 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-121
§ 7-121. Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health, and Nutrition.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established a Mayor’s Council on Physical Fitness, Health, and Nutrition (“Mayor’s Council”) with the mission to improve the health and wellness of all District residents through physical activity and healthy eating.
(b) (1) The following individuals, or their designees, shall be members of the Mayor’s Council:
    (A) The Mayor of the District of Columbia;
    (B) The Director of the Department of Parks and Recreation;
    (C) The Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools;
    (D) The Chair of the Public Charter School Board;
    (E) The Director of the Department of Aging; and
    (F) Director of the Department of Health;
  (2) The Mayor shall designate one of the members listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection to serve as the chairperson. The chairperson shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
  (3) (A) In addition to the members listed in paragraph (1) of this subsection, the Mayor’s Council shall include:
      (i) Five members appointed by the Council of the District of Columbia; and
      (ii) Up to 14 members appointed by the Mayor.
    (B) All members appointed pursuant to this paragraph shall:
      (i) Be residents of the District of Columbia;
      (ii) Have experience related to physical fitness, health, or nutrition;
      (iii) Serve 3-year terms; and
      (iv) Serve without compensation.
    (C) Vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
(c) The Mayor’s Council shall meet no fewer than 2 times per year. The time and place of its meetings shall be provided by the executive committee, established by § 7-126 ; provided, that the Department of Health shall convene at least 2 meetings per year.
D.C. Code § 7-2509.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2509.08
§ 7-2509.08. Concealed pistol licensing appeals.
Status: in_force

(a) The Office of Administrative Hearings shall hear 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 limitation of a license to carry a concealed pistol; or
  (3) A limitation or revocation of a license to carry a concealed pistol.
(b) Repealed.
(c) Repealed.
(d) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the procedures for appeals under this section shall be governed by 1 DCMR § 1200 et seq. until such time as the Chief Administrative Law Judge may repeal them or re-establish procedures by rule pursuant to § 2-1831.05 .
  (2) The burden of production of evidence and the burden of persuasion for an appeal brought under this section shall be upon the Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department or the Chief's designated agent. This provision controls over, and may not be altered by, any rule of procedure or regulation promulgated by either the Office of Administrative Hearings or the Metropolitan Police Department.
(e) Hearings conducted pursuant to this section shall be confidential and not open to the public.
(f) Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1301.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1301.03
§ 7-1301.03. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter:
(1) Repealed.
(1A) "Adult" means a person who is at least 18 years of age.
(1B) “Advanced practice registered nurse” includes a nurse-practitioner or clinical nurse specialist, licensed pursuant to § 3-1202.04 and Chapter 59 or Chapter 60 of Title 17 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, who has been certified as a specialist in psychiatry and mental health.
(1C) “Advocate for a person with an intellectual disability” means a member of the group of advocates created pursuant to § 7-1304.13 .
(2) “At least a moderate intellectual disability” means a person who is found, following a comprehensive evaluation, to be impaired in adaptive behavior to a moderate, severe or profound degree and functioning at the moderate, severe or profound intellectual level in accordance with standard measurements as recorded in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition.
(2A) “Behavioral plan” means a written plan that, at a minimum:
  (A) Identifies challenging or problematic behavior;
  (B) States the working hypothesis about the cause of the person’s behavior and uses the working hypothesis as the basis for the selected intervention;
  (C) Identifies strategies to teach or encourage the person to adopt adaptive behavior as an alternative to the challenging or problematic behavior;
  (D) Considers the potential for environmental or programmatic changes that could have a positive impact on challenging or problematic behaviors; and
  (E) Addresses the person’s need for additional technological or supervisory assistance to adapt or cope with day-to-day activities.
(2B) “Best interests” means promoting personal well-being by assessing:
  (A) The reason for the proposed action, its risks and benefits, and any alternatives considered and rejected; and
  (B) The least intrusive, least restrictive, and most normalizing course of action possible to provide for the needs of the person.
(2C) “Cause injury to others as a result of the person’s intellectual disability” means cause injury to others as a result of deficits in adaptive functioning associated with an intellectual disability.
(3) “Chief Program Director” means an individual with special training and experience in the diagnosis and habilitation of persons with intellectual disabilities, and who is a qualified developmental disability professional appointed or designated by the Director of a facility for persons with intellectual disabilities to provide or supervise habilitation and care for residents of the facility.
(3A) "Close friend" means any adult who has exhibited significant care and concern for the person and has maintained regular contact with the person so as to be familiar with the person's activities, health, and religious and moral beliefs.
(4) "Commitment" means the process whereby a person becomes a ward of the District through Court proceedings under this chapter .
(5) "Community-based services" means specialized or generic services for the evaluation, care and habilitation of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, in a community setting, directed toward the intellectual, social, personal, physical, emotional, or economic development of a person with an intellectual or developmental disability. The services shall include diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, day habilitation, training, education, supported employment, recreation, counseling of the person with an intellectual or developmental disability and his or her family, protective and other social and socio-legal services, information and referral, and transportation to assure delivery of services to persons of all ages who have intellectual or developmental disabilities.
(5A) “Competent” means to have the mental capacity to appreciate the nature and implications of a decision to enter a facility, choose between or among alternatives presented, and communicate the choice in an unambiguous manner.
(6) “Comprehensive evaluation” means an assessment of a person with an intellectual disability by persons with special training and experience in the diagnosis and habilitation of persons with intellectual disabilities, which includes a documented sequence of observations and examinations intended to determine the person’s strengths, developmental needs, and need for services. The initial comprehensive evaluation shall include documentation of:
  (A) A physical examination that includes the person’s medical history;
  (B) An educational evaluation, vocational evaluation, or both;
  (C) A psychological evaluation, including an evaluation of cognitive and adaptive functioning levels;
  (D) A social evaluation;
  (E) A dental examination;
  (F) An evaluation by the interdisciplinary team of whether the person currently:
    (i) Has the capacity to grant, refuse, or withdraw consent to any ongoing medical treatment; and
    (ii) Has executed or could execute a durable power of attorney in accordance with § 21-2205 ; and
  (G) A determination of whether the person has an individual reasonably available, mentally capable, and willing to provide substituted consent pursuant to § 21-2210 .
(7) “Council” means the Council of the District of Columbia.
(8) “Court” means the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
(8A) “Crime of violence” has the same meaning as in § 23-1331(4) .
(8B) Repealed.
(8C) “Department on Disability Services” or “DDS” means the Department on Disability Services established by § 7-761.03 .
(8D) "Developmental disabilities" means a severe and chronic disability of a person that:
  (A) Is attributable to a mental or physical impairment, other than the sole diagnosis of mental illness, or to a combination of mental and physical impairments;
  (B) Is manifested before 22 years of age;
  (C) Is likely to continue indefinitely;
  (D) Results in substantial functional limitations in 3 or more of the following areas of major life activity:
    (i) Self-care;
    (ii) Understanding and use of language;
    (iii) Functional academics;
    (iv) Social skills;
    (v) Mobility;
    (vi) Self-direction;
    (vii) Capacity for independent living; or
    (viii) Health and safety; and
  (E) Reflects the person's need for a combination and sequence of special, interdisciplinary, or generic services, individualized supports, or other forms of assistance that are of lifelong or extended duration and are person-centered, planned and coordinated.
(9) Repealed.
(10) “Director” means the administrative head of a facility, or community-based service and includes superintendents.
(11) “District” means the District of Columbia government.
(11A) “DSM-IV” means the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(11B) “DSM-IV ‘V” Codes” means “V” codes as defined in the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
(12) “Education” means a systematic process of training, instruction and habilitation to facilitate the intellectual, physical, social and emotional development of a person with an intellectual or developmental disability.
(13) “Facility” means a public or private residence, or part thereof, which is licensed by the District as a skilled or intermediate care facility or a community residential facility (as defined in D.C. Regulation 74-15, as amended) and also includes any supervised group residence for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities under 18 years of age. For persons committed or for whom commitment may be sought under § 7-1304.06a , the term “facility” may include a physically secure facility or a staff-secure facility, within or without the District of Columbia. The term “facility” does not include a jail, prison, other place of confinement for persons who are awaiting trial or who have been found guilty of a criminal offense, or a hospital for people with mental illness within the meaning of § 24-501 .
(14) “Habilitation” means the process by which a person is assisted to acquire and maintain those life skills which enable him or her to cope more effectively with the demands of his or her own person and of his or her own environment, including, in the case of a person committed under § 7-1304.06a , to refrain from committing crimes of violence or sex offenses, and to raise the level of his or her physical, intellectual, social, emotional and economic efficiency. “Habilitation” includes, but is not limited to, the provision of community-based services.
(14A) “Human Rights Advisory Committee” means the committee of the Department on Disability Services that provides guidance and oversight regarding matters pertaining to the human rights of persons receiving services through the Department on Disability Services and reviews allegations of human rights violations.
(14B) “ICD-9-CM” means the most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases Code Manual.
(14C) “Person found incompetent in a criminal case” means a person who:
  (A) Has at least a mild intellectual disability;
  (B) Is charged with a crime of violence or sex offense;
  (C) Has been found incompetent to stand trial, or to participate in sentencing or transfer proceedings; and
  (D) Has been found not likely to gain competence in the foreseeable future.
(15) “Informed consent” means consent voluntarily given in writing with sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the subject matter involved to enable the person giving consent to make an understanding and enlightened decision, without any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress or other form of constraint or coercion.
(15A) "Intellectual disability" or "persons with intellectual disabilities" means a person diagnosed before 22 years of age with an intellectual disability as set forth in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association.
(16) “Least restrictive alternative” means that living and/or habilitation arrangement which least inhibits a person’s independence and right to liberty. It shall include, but not be limited to, arrangements which move a person from:
  (A) More to less structured living;
  (B) Larger to smaller facilities;
  (C) Larger to smaller living units;
  (D) Group to individual residences;
  (E) Segregated from the community to integrated with community living and programming; and/or
  (F) Dependent to independent living.
(17) “Mayor” means the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
(17A) “Mental illness” means a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder (including those of biological etiology) which substantially impairs the mental health of the person or is of sufficient duration to meet diagnostic criteria specified within the DSM-IV or its ICD-9-CM equivalent (and subsequent revisions) with the exception of DSM-IV “V” codes, substance abuse disorders, intellectual disability, and other developmental disorders, or seizure disorders, unless those exceptions co-occur with another diagnosable mental illness.
(18) Repealed.
(19) Repealed.
(19A) Repealed.
(20) “Normalization principle” means the principle of aiding persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities to obtain a lifestyle as close to normal as possible, making available to them patterns and conditions of everyday life which are as close as possible to the patterns of mainstream society.
(20A) “Psychotropic medication” means a medication prescribed for the treatment of symptoms of mental or emotional disorders or to influence and modify behavior, cognition, or affective state. The term “psychotropic medication” includes the following categories of medications:
  (A) Antipsychotics or neuroleptics;
  (B) Antidepressants;
  (C) Agents for control of mania or depression;
  (D) Antianxiety agents;
  (E) Sedatives, hypnotics, or other sleep-promoting drugs; and
  (F) Psychomotor stimulants.
(21) “Qualified developmental disability professional” means:
  (A) A psychologist with at least a master’s degree from an accredited program and with specialized training or 1 year of experience in intellectual disabilities; or
  (B) A physician licensed by the Commission on Licensure to Practice the Healing Arts to practice medicine in the District and with specialized training in intellectual disabilities or with 1 year of experience in treating persons with intellectual disabilities; or
  (C) An educator with a degree in education from an accredited program and with specialized training or 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities; or
  (D) A social worker with:
    (i) A master’s degree from a school of social work accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (New York, New York), and with specialized training in intellectual disabilities or with 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities; or
    (ii) With a bachelor’s degree from an undergraduate social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education who is currently working and continues to work under the supervision of a social worker as defined in sub-subparagraph (i) of this subparagraph, and who has specialized training in intellectual disabilities 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities; or
  (E) A rehabilitation counselor who is certified by the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (Chicago, Illinois) and who has specialized training in intellectual disabilities or 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities; or
  (F) A physical or occupational therapist with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited program in physical or occupational therapy and who has specialized training or 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities; or
  (G) A therapeutic recreation specialist who is a graduate of an accredited program and who has specialized training or 1 year of experience in working with persons with intellectual disabilities.
(21A) "Religious superior" means a bishop or a member of a religious order who, under the approved constitution, laws, statutes, bylaws, or rules of the religious order or community, exercises authority over the particular community or unit of the religious order to which the member of the religious order or community belongs.
(22) “Resident of the District of Columbia” means a person who maintains his or her principal place of abode in the District of Columbia, including a person with an intellectual or developmental disability who would be a resident of the District of Columbia if the person had not been placed in an out-of-state facility by the District. A person with an intellectual or developmental disability who is under 21 years of age shall be deemed to be a resident of the District of Columbia if the custodial parent of the person with an intellectual or developmental disability is a resident of the District of Columbia.
(23) Repealed.
(24) Repealed.
(24A) “Screening” means an assessment of a person with an intellectual disability in accordance with standards issued by the Accreditation Council for Services for People with Developmental Disabilities, which is designed to determine if a further evaluation of the person with an intellectual disability or other interventions are indicated.
(24B) “Sex offenses” means offenses in Chapter 30 of Title 22 , but does not include any offense described in § 22-4016(b) .
(24C) “Substituted judgment” means making a decision that conforms as closely as possible with the decision that the person would have made, based upon knowledge of the beliefs, values, and preferences of the person.
(25) “Time out” means time out from positive reinforcement, a behavior modification procedure in which, contingent upon undesired behavior, the resident is removed from the situation in which positive reinforcement is available.
(26) “Transfer proceedings” means the proceedings pursuant to § 16-2307 to transfer a person less than 18 years of age from Family Court to Criminal Court in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to face adult criminal charges.
D.C. Code § 7-2361.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23C / § 7-2361.07
§ 7-2361.07. Provision of volunteer health or veterinary services; unauthorized practice sanctions.
Status: in_force

(a) A volunteer health practitioner shall not:
  (1) Practice outside of the scope of practice for a similarly licensed practitioner established by the licensing provisions, practice acts, or other laws of the District; or
  (2) Provide services that are outside the practitioner’s scope of practice, even if a similarly licensed practitioner in the District would be permitted to provide the services.
(b) The Mayor may issue a Mayor’s order that modifies or restricts the health or veterinary services that volunteer health practitioners may provide pursuant to this chapter. An order under this subsection may take effect immediately, without prior notice or comment, and is not a rule within the meaning of subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 [ § 2-501 et seq.].
(c) A host entity may restrict the health or veterinary services that a volunteer health practitioner may provide pursuant to this chapter.
(d) (1) A volunteer health practitioner does not engage in unauthorized practice under this section unless the practitioner has reason to know of any limitation, modification, or restriction relating to his or her practice or that a similarly licensed practitioner in the District would not be permitted to provide the services.
  (2) A volunteer health practitioner has reason to know of a limitation, modification, or restriction or that a similarly licensed practitioner in the District would not be permitted to provide a service if:
    (A) The practitioner knows the limitation, modification, or restriction exists or that a similarly licensed practitioner in the District would not be permitted to provide the service; or
    (B) From all the facts and circumstances known to the practitioner at the relevant time, a reasonable person would conclude that the limitation, modification, or restriction exists or that a similarly licensed practitioner in the District would not be permitted to provide the service.
(e) In addition to the authority granted by District law other than this chapter to regulate the conduct of health practitioners, a licensing board or other disciplinary authority in the District:
  (1) May impose administrative sanctions upon a health practitioner licensed in the District for conduct outside of the District in response to an out-of-state emergency;
  (2) May impose administrative sanctions upon a practitioner not licensed in the District for conduct in the District in response to an in-state emergency; and
  (3) Shall report any administrative sanctions imposed upon a practitioner licensed in another state to the appropriate licensing board or other disciplinary authority in any other state in which the practitioner is known to be licensed.
(f) In determining whether to impose administrative sanctions under subsection (e) of this section, a licensing board or other disciplinary authority shall consider the circumstances in which the conduct took place, including any exigent circumstances, and the practitioner’s:
  (1) Scope of practice;
  (2) Education;
  (3) Training;
  (4) Experience; and
  (5) Specialized skill.