D.C. Code § 7-2871.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28B / § 7-2871.04
§ 7-2871.04. Materials development and distribution.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department of Health shall create educational materials on the nature and risk of concussions.
(b) Before an athlete may participate in an athletic activity, the organizing entity shall provide the educational materials developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section to the athlete and the parent or guardian of the athlete. The athlete and the parent or guardian of the athlete shall sign a statement acknowledging receipt of the materials and return it to the organizing entity before the athlete shall be allowed to participate in the athletic activity.
D.C. Code § 7-601 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6 / § 7-601
§ 7-601. Standard.
Status: in_force

An individual who has sustained either: (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem; is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance with accepted medical standards.
D.C. Code § 7-871.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8D / § 7-871.05
§ 7-871.05. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $5,000 for each violation. Each and every day of the violation shall constitute a separate violation and the penalties prescribed shall be applicable to each separate violation unless otherwise indicated.
(b) Civil fines, penalties, and fees may be imposed as alternative sanctions for any infraction of the provisions of this chapter or the rules issued under authority of this chapter pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2 .
(c) Any person who knowingly or willfully violates this chapter shall, in addition to or in lieu of any civil penalty which may be imposed for the violation, be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $5,000 for each day of violation, or to imprisonment of not more than one year, or both.
D.C. Code § 7-704.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7 / § 7-704.01
§ 7-704.01. Enforcement; penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) Civil fines, penalties, or related costs may be imposed against any long-term care facility, owner, executive officer, administrator, employee, or agent, for the violation of any provision of this chapter or any rule issued pursuant to this chapter.
(b) Procedures for adjudication and enforcement and applicable civil fines, penalties, or costs shall be those prescribed for a Class 2 civil infraction, pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2 .
(c) If the ombudsman or his or her designee knowingly violates § 7-703.06 by releasing a confidential document, record, or other information obtained pursuant to § 7-703.02(b) , the ombudsman or his or her designee may be prosecuted for a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, subject to a fine of not more than $1,500, imprisonment for not more than 30 days, or both.
(d) No person shall take discriminatory, disciplinary, or retaliatory action against an employee of a long-term care facility or agency, resident, or resident representative for filing in good faith a complaint with, or providing information to, the ombudsman or his designees. A person who violates this provision, or who aids, abets, invites, compels, or coerces another to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000, imprisonment not to exceed 180 days, or both. This subsection shall not infringe upon the rights of an employer to supervise, discipline, or to terminate an employee for other reasons.
(e) A person who knowingly denies access to the ombudsman or his or her designee in violation of subchapter III of this chapter , or aids, abets, invites, compels, or coerces another to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine not to exceed $1,000, imprisonment not to exceed 180 days, or both.
D.C. Code § 7-216 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-216
§ 7-216. Divorce and annulment registration.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.07
§ 7-1671.07. Health Occupations Boards review of medical marijuana authorized practitioner recommendations.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2502.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2502.10
§ 7-2502.10. Procedure for denial and revocation of registration certificate.
Status: in_force

(a) If it appears to the Chief that an application for a registration certificate should be denied or that a registration certificate should be revoked, the Chief shall notify the applicant or registrant of the proposed denial or revocation, briefly stating the reason or reasons therefor. Service may be made by delivering a copy of the notice to the applicant or registrant personally, or by leaving a copy thereof at the place of residence identified on the application or registration with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein, or by mailing a copy of the notice first class mail, postage prepaid, to the residence address identified on the application or certificate. In the case of an organization, service may be made upon the president, chief executive, or other officer, managing agent or person authorized by appointment or law to receive such notice as described in the preceding sentence at the business address of the organization identified in the application or registration certificate. The person serving the notice shall make proof thereof by preparing an affidavit identifying the person served and stating the time, place, and manner of service. The applicant or registrant shall have 15 days from the date the notice is served in which to submit further evidence in support of the application or qualifications to continue to hold a registration certificate, as the case may be; provided, that if the applicant does not make such a submission within 15 days from the date of service, the applicant or registrant shall be deemed to have conceded the validity of the reason or reasons stated in the notice, and the denial or revocation shall become final.
(b) Within 10 days of the date upon which the Chief receives such a submission, he shall serve upon the applicant or registrant in the manner specified in subsection (a) of this section notice of his final decision. The Chief’s decision shall become effective at the expiration of the time within which to file a notice of appeal pursuant to the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act ( § 2-501 et seq.) or, if such a notice of appeal is filed, at the time the final order or judgment of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals becomes effective.
(b-1) An appeal of the Chief's denial or revocation of a firearm registration certificate pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be made to the Office of Administrative Hearings, pursuant to § 2-1831.03(b-2)(2) . Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the burden of production of evidence and the burden of persuasion at a hearing in such an appeal shall be upon the Chief 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.
(c) Within 7 days of a decision unfavorable to the applicant or registrant becoming final, the applicant or registrant shall:
  (1) Peaceably surrender to the Chief the firearm for which the registration certificate was revoked in the manner provided in § 7-2507.05 ; or
  (2) Lawfully remove such firearm from the District for so long as he has an interest in such firearm; or
  (3) Otherwise lawfully dispose of his interest in such firearm.
(d) If a firearm is in the possession of the Chief, the Chief may maintain possession of the firearm for which the registrant is temporarily or permanently prohibited from having lawful possession until final disposition of the matter.
D.C. Code § 7-2403 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 24 / § 7-2403
§ 7-2403. Duties of Advisory Board.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-751.15a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7B / § 7-751.15a
§ 7-751.15a. Health Professional Recruitment Fund.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a nonlapsing fund the Health Professional Recruitment Fund (“Fund”). 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 at any other time, but shall be continually available for the sole purpose of providing loan repayments and retention incentives pursuant to the Program without regard to fiscal year limitation, subject to authorization by Congress.
(b) The Mayor shall deposit in the Fund:
  (1) All general revenue funds appropriated by a line item in the budget submitted pursuant to § 1-204.46 , and authorized by Congress for the purpose of the Program;
  (2) All fees and penalties generated pursuant to the Program; and
  (3) Any other funds received on behalf of the Fund for the purpose of the Program.
(c) The Department of Health shall administer the Fund from its appropriated operating budget.
(d) The Department of Health shall segregate the $1.5 million local funds enhancement provided in the Fiscal Year 2021 budget into a separate subaccount, which shall only be expended for:
  (1) Section 7-751.02(b)(3) ; or
  (2) Section 7-751.08(a-1) .
D.C. Code § 7-771.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.10
§ 7-771.10. Date of transfer of assets and authority.
Status: in_force

No later than October 1, 2008, the transition plan required by § 7-771.09 , as approved, shall be implemented.
D.C. Code § 7-1531.23 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1531.23
§ 7-1531.23. Uniformity of application and construction.
Status: in_force

In applying and construing this subchapter, consideration shall be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
D.C. Code § 7-2049 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2049
§ 7-2049. Repeal of existing regulations.
Status: in_force

The Child Development Facilities Regulation shall remain in effect until superseded by rules issued by the Mayor. Upon the effective date of rules promulgated pursuant to this subchapter, the Child Development Facilities Regulation shall be deemed repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.03
§ 7-1131.03. Establishment and purposes of the Department of Mental Health.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a separate cabinet-level Department, subordinate to the Mayor, the Department of Mental Health.
(b) The Department shall be the successor in interest to the Commission on Mental Health Services, established by Mayor’s Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1986, effective January 3, 1987 ( part B of subchapter VII of Chapter 15 of Title 1 ), and Mayor’s Order No. 88-168, effective July 13, 1988, and under receivership in the case of Dixon, et al. v. Williams, et al., C.A. No. 74-285 (NHJ), in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
(c) The provisions of this chapter are intended to be construed in a manner consistent with all outstanding orders of the United States District Court inDixon, et al. v. Williams, et al., including the Final Plan adopted by the District Court in its April 2, 2001 order.
(d) The Department shall have as its purposes:
  (1) Developing a system of care for adults that is integrated to the maximum practicable extent with other public systems in the District, including but not limited to addiction treatment and prevention, criminal justice, education, health, housing, income maintenance, and vocational rehabilitation;
  (2) Developing a system of care for children, youth, and their families that is integrated to the maximum practicable extent with other public systems in the District, including but not limited to addiction treatment and prevention, child welfare, criminal justice, developmental services, education, health, housing, income maintenance, juvenile justice, and vocational rehabilitation;
  (3) Ensuring that persons with mental illness and children or youth with mental health problems are treated in the most integrated setting that can be accommodated, consistent with individual needs and public safety;
  (4) Fostering the development of high quality, comprehensive, cost effective, and culturally competent mental health services and mental health supports, based on recognized local needs, especially for persons with serious mental illness and children or youth with serious emotional disturbances;
  (5) Promoting mental health and public awareness of mental health issues;
  (6) Ensuring that services provided to mental health consumers meet standards established by the Department pursuant to § 7-1131.14(2) -(5) for the operation of mental health services and mental health supports;
  (7) Developing and implementing strategies to eliminate barriers and improve access to mental health services and mental health supports for consumers of mental health services; and
  (8) Ensuring the participation of consumers, families, employees, providers, and advocates of mental health services and mental health supports in the planning, delivery, monitoring, and evaluation of these services and supports.
(e) In assessing or meeting the service needs of consumers of mental health services, the Department shall not discriminate against consumers based upon their eligibility or non-eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance coverage; provided, that nothing in this section shall preclude the Department from establishing by regulation a mental-health-benefit program or plan based upon eligibility or non-eligibility for Medicaid, Medicare, or private insurance coverage.
(f) Nothing in this chapter requires or shall be construed as requiring the Department or any provider with which the Department contracts to provide mental health services or mental health supports to persons who are not residents of the District, except where those persons are likely to injure themselves or others if services are not provided or where services are otherwise required by law.
(g) Nothing in this chapter shall limit the civil rights of consumers of mental health services who have reached the age of majority under District law.
(h) Nothing in this chapter shall affect the authority of the Medical Assistance Administration as the single state agency 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)).
D.C. Code § 7-231.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.08
§ 7-231.08. Live birth registration.
Status: in_force

(a) A report of each live birth that occurs in the District shall be filed with the Registrar within 5 days after the birth.
(b) (1) An institution or physician shall submit live birth information electronically, and the Registrar shall register the live birth when the information is complete and electronically filed.
  (2) An individual may submit live birth information in writing on a form approved by the Registrar for a live birth that occurs outside an institution. The Registrar shall establish the required information for live birth filing through rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 .
(c) Not less than 30 days before the expected delivery date, the physician, institution, or other individual providing prenatal care shall provide the prenatal care information required for the report to the institution where the delivery is expected to occur.
(d) (1) When a live birth occurs in, or en route to, an institution, the individual in charge of the institution, or his designee, shall collect the personal data, prepare the electronic form, secure the required signature, and electronically file the information.
  (2) (A) The physician or other individual in attendance at or immediately following the live birth shall provide the medical information required in a live birth report and verify the facts of live birth within 72 hours after the live birth.
    (B) If the physician, or other individual in attendance at or immediately following the live birth, does not verify the facts of live birth in the 72-hour period, the individual in charge of the institution, or his designee, shall verify the facts of live birth and complete the form to report the live birth by an approved electronic process.
(e) (1) In obtaining the information required for the report, an institution shall use information gathering procedures, including worksheets, provided or approved by the Registrar.
  (2) An institution may establish procedures to transfer information, electronically or otherwise, required for the report from other systems; provided, that the Registrar shall review and approve the procedures before implementation to ensure that the information transferred is the same required for the report.
(f) When a live birth occurs in the District outside an institution, the report of live birth shall be prepared by and electronically filed in the following order of priority:
  (1) By the physician in attendance at the live birth, or who examines the mother and the child, within 5 days after the live birth;
  (2) By the medical facility at which the mother and child are examined, within 5 days after the live birth;
  (3) By any other licensed or certified health care practitioner in attendance at the live birth, or who examines the mother and the child, within 5 days after the live birth.
  (4) The mother;
  (5) The second parent or the spouse or the domestic partner of the mother if such individual is in attendance at the live birth; or
  (6) The individual in charge of the premises where the live birth occurred.
(g) The Registrar shall determine the evidence that shall be required to establish the facts of live birth by rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 .
(h) The Registrar shall not register a report for a live birth that took place outside of an institution if the report does not include the minimum acceptable required documentation as required by rules issued pursuant to § 7-231.29 , or the Registrar has cause to question the validity or adequacy of the documentary evidence, and the deficiencies are not corrected. The Registrar shall advise the registrant's mother, second parent, spouse, or domestic partner of the mother of the reason for this action, and shall advise the individual of his or her right to appeal the Registrar's decision in court.
(i) When a live birth occurs on a moving conveyance within the United States and the child is first removed from the conveyance in the District, the live birth shall be electronically registered in the District, and the place where the child is first removed shall be considered the place of live birth.
(j) When a live birth occurs on a moving conveyance while in international waters or air space, or in a foreign country or its air space, and the child is first removed from the conveyance in the District, the live birth shall be electronically registered in the District; provided, that the record shall identify the actual place of live birth if it can be determined.
(k) The information required by the report of live birth shall be that of the mother and the information shall be reported to and registered by the Vital Records Division.
(l) For the purposes of live birth registration:
  (1) The record shall include the name of the mother of the child;
  (2) No more than 2 parents may be named on a live birth record including the mother;
  (3) If the mother was married at the time of either conception or live birth, or between conception and live birth, or a child is born within 300 days after the termination of marital cohabitation by reason of death, annulment, divorce, or separation ordered by the court, only the name of the spouse during those times may be entered on the record as the second parent of the child, unless parentage by a different individual has been determined otherwise pursuant to § 16-909.01 ;
  (4) If the mother was in a domestic partnership at the time of either conception or live birth, or between conception and live birth, or a child is born within 300 days after the termination of the domestic partnership pursuant to § 32-702(a) , only the name of the domestic partner shall be entered on the record as the second parent of the child, unless parentage has been determined otherwise pursuant to § 16-909.01 ;
  (5) If the mother was not married or in a domestic partnership at the time of either conception or live birth, or between conception and live birth, the name of a second parent shall only be entered on the record if:
    (A) The mother and the father have signed a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity pursuant to § 16-909.01(a)(1) or pursuant to the laws and procedures of another state in which the voluntary acknowledgment was signed;
    (B) The mother and the second parent have signed a consent to parent a child born by artificial insemination pursuant to § 16-909.01 (e); or
    (C) Parentage of the second parent has otherwise been established pursuant to § 16-909.01 ;
  (6) The consent to parent a child born by artificial insemination pursuant to § 16-909.01 (e) shall be on a form prescribed and furnished by the Registrar that:
    (A) Acknowledges the mother and intended parent's consent to the artificial insemination and the intended parent's intent to be a parent of the child;
    (B) Is signed and sworn by oath under penalty of perjury;
    (C) Includes written notice of the legal consequences, rights, and responsibilities as a parent that arise from signing the consent; and
    (D) Contains the full names, Social Security numbers of the mother and intended parent, the birthplace of the child, if applicable, and a statement indicating that both parents understand the rights, responsibilities, and consequences of signing the affidavit;
  (7) If a male or female parent, other than the mother, is not named on the record of live birth, no other information about the male or female parent may be entered on the record;
  (8) The surname of the child shall be the surname of the mother or the second parent, or the surnames of both parents recorded in any order in a hyphenated or unhyphenated form, or any surname to which either parent has a familial connection; and
  (9) If the chosen surname is not that of a parent, or the surnames of both parents recorded in any order, whether hyphenated or unhyphenated, both parents shall provide an affidavit signed under penalty of perjury stating that the chosen surname was or is the surname of a past or current relative or has another clearly stated familial connection.
(m) (1) The mother of the child, the second parent of the child, or other informant shall verify the accuracy of the personal data to be entered on the report for submission within 5 days after the date of live birth.
  (2) A report of live birth submitted after 5 days, but within one year from the date of live birth shall be registered in the standard format of live birth reports in the manner prescribed in this section. The report shall not be marked or flagged as "delayed".
D.C. Code § 7-2231.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 22 / § 7-2231.11
§ 7-2231.11. District government continuity of operations planning.
Status: in_force

(a) The Agency shall coordinate COOP planning for the District government, including by:
  (1) Designating a senior Agency employee to serve as the District COOP Program Manager, whose primary responsibility shall be to implement this section;
  (2) Developing internal policies and procedures, including after-action reviews, for the Agency to govern its implementation of this section;
  (3) Maintaining a complete and accurate list of COOP Coordinators and backup COOP Coordinators;
  (4) Developing, updating, and distributing a COOP Plan template and guidance for each District government agency;
  (5) Ensuring each District government agency develops, updates, and conducts exercises of its COOP Plan;
  (6) Consulting with each District government agency on after-action reviews of exercises of its COOP Plan;
  (7) Monitoring the status of each District government agency's COOP Plan and bringing the District government agency into compliance with subsection (b) of this section; and
  (8) Submitting an annual report to the City Administrator, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, and Council Committee with jurisdiction over the Agency on COOP planning for the District government, including:
    (A) An after-action review of the Agency's implementation of this section; and
    (B) For each District government agency, a description of the:
      (i) Agency's implementation of this section, specifically with respect to that District government agency, since the submission of the last report; and
      (ii) District government agency's compliance or noncompliance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) Each District government agency shall work with the Agency to:
  (1) Within 30 days after March 16, 2021, designate a senior employee to serve as its COOP Coordinator and an employee to serve as its backup COOP Coordinator, should the COOP Coordinator be unavailable at any time, and submit their names and contact information to the District COOP Program Manager;
  (2) By October 1, 2021, develop and submit a COOP Plan that conforms with the Agency's COOP Plan template and guidance to the District COOP Program Manager;
  (3) By July 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, conduct an exercise of its COOP Plan and an after-action review of the exercise, which shall include the preparation of a report, submitted to the District COOP Program Manager, describing any deficiencies in and necessary revisions to the COOP Plan identified through the exercise; and
  (4) By October 1, 2022, and annually thereafter, update its COOP Plan submitted pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subsection, in coordination with the District COOP Program Manager, and re-submit the updated COOP Plan to the District COOP Program Manager.
(c) The COOP Coordinator and backup COOP Coordinator designated pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section shall work with the District COOP Program Manager to facilitate and ensure the District government agency's compliance with subsection (b) of this section.
(d) By January 31, 2022, the Inspector General shall audit COOP planning for the District government, including in relation to COVID-19, and submit a report to the Mayor and Council on the Inspector General's findings.
D.C. Code § 7-2047 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2047
§ 7-2047. Prosecutions.
Status: in_force

(a) Prosecutions of violations of this subchapter shall be brought by the Corporation Counsel in the name of the District of Columbia.
(b) In prosecutions initiated pursuant to this subchapter, a child development facility claiming an exemption from a licensing requirement of this subchapter shall have the burden of proving entitlement to the exemption.
D.C. Code § 7-2071.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20A / § 7-2071.07
§ 7-2071.07. Access to records; confidentiality.
Status: in_force

(a) The Health Care and Public Benefits Ombudsman may review the records of a health benefits plan, the HealthCare Alliance, or other provider, pertaining to a consumer or the consumer’s medical records, or records pertaining to the consumer's public benefits, if the consumer or the consumer’s legal representative has provided written consent. The confidentiality of the records shall be maintained by the Ombudsman Program in accordance with all federal and state confidentiality and disclosure laws.
(b) No information or records maintained by the program shall be disclosed to the public unless the consumer or the consumer’s legal representative has consented in writing to the release of the information or records.
(c) Each District agency shall provide cooperation, assistance, and data to the Health Care and Public Benefits Ombudsman, as requested and upon reasonable notice, necessary to enable the Ombudsman Program to investigate a consumer’s complaint under applicable District or federal law.
(d) DHCF shall enter into a “business associate” agreement with the Ombudsman Program that gives the program access to information about the Medicaid eligibility status of consumers whom it serves and requires the program to safeguard that information pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Regulation (45 C.F.R. Parts 160 and 164).
D.C. Code § 7-1201.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1201.03
§ 7-1201.03. Personal notes.
Status: in_force

If a mental health professional makes personal notes regarding a client, such personal notes shall not be maintained as a part of the client’s record of mental health information. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, access to such personal notes shall be strictly and absolutely limited to the mental health professional and shall not be disclosed except to the degree that the personal notes or the information contained therein are needed in litigation brought by the client against the mental health professional on the grounds of professional malpractice or disclosure in violation of this section.
D.C. Code § 7-755.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7B-i / § 7-755.04
§ 7-755.04. Commission on Health Disparities Fund.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1306.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1306.01
§ 7-1306.01. Increased financial responsibility.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-531.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-531.02
§ 7-531.02. Establishment of pilot volunteer service credit program.
Status: in_force

(a) Within 8 months after September 13, 1986, the Mayor shall establish a 3-year pilot volunteer service credit program (“program”) through which individuals may volunteer targeted services and in return earn service credits that may be subsequently exchanged for targeted services. To implement the program, the Mayor may award grants and contracts to approved sponsors. The Mayor shall widely publicize a description of the program and a contact telephone number and address for those who may wish to participate.
(b) (1) The Mayor shall ensure that the District government or a sponsor maintains a computerized, District-wide register containing:
    (A) The names of participating volunteers, services for which they are available, and any other personal information relevant to the program;
    (B) An accounting system with the capacity to make available to the Mayor, each sponsor, and each volunteer a monthly balance of service credits earned and used; and
    (C) Any other data that may be needed to monitor and administer the program and any demonstration projects undertaken pursuant to § 7-531.07 .
  (2) The register required by this subsection shall be used solely to match volunteers with eligible persons and to accomplish other tasks consistent with the purposes of this subchapter.
D.C. Code § 7-2341.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23B / § 7-2341.04
§ 7-2341.04. Emergency medical response vehicles: license or certification required.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no ambulance or other emergency medical response vehicle intended to transport patients may be operated in the District without a currently valid license having been issued by the Mayor for that vehicle and for its use as an emergency medical response vehicle.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no vehicle or other conveyance may be operated as an emergency medical response vehicle not intended to transport patients in the District without a currently valid certification having been issued by the Mayor for the emergency medical response equipment and supplies contained therein.
(c) An applicant for a license or certification to operate an emergency medical response vehicle shall establish to the satisfaction of the Mayor that the vehicle, including its emergency medical response equipment and supplies, meets all applicable requirements set forth in this chapter and in rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter.
(d) An applicant for a license or certification shall:
  (1) Submit an application to the Mayor on a form approved by the Mayor;
  (2) Submit supporting documentation as required by the Mayor, including all certificates of approval, authority, motor vehicle registration, or need that are required as a precondition to lawful operation in the District of Columbia; and
  (3) Pay the applicable fee established by the Mayor through rulemaking, except that no license or certification fee shall be required for any emergency medical response vehicle operated by the District government.
(e) No license for an emergency medical response vehicle intended to transport patients shall be issued unless the Mayor finds that the vehicle is, and will be at all times when in such use, in compliance with all applicable laws and ordinances relating to health, sanitation, and safety.
(f) No ground emergency medical response vehicle shall be operated to transport patients in the District unless it is staffed by at least 2 persons, each of whom is certified pursuant to this chapter and to rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter at a level equal to or greater than a basic emergency medical technician.
(g) No air or water emergency medical response vehicle shall be operated to transport patients in the District unless it is staffed by at least 2 persons, one of whom is a validly licensed pilot and the other of whom is certified pursuant to this chapter and to rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter at a level equal to or greater than an intermediate emergency medical technician or a paramedic.
(h) A license or certification for the operation of an emergency medical response vehicle shall be issued for a period of time not to exceed one year.
(i) A license or certification for the operation of an emergency medical response vehicle shall be valid only for the persons and vehicle named as applicants in the application. No emergency medical response vehicle license or certification shall be sold, transferred, or assigned without the approval of the Mayor. Approval may be granted only upon a demonstration that the vehicle and its operation will conform to all licensing or certification requirements set forth in this chapter and in rules promulgated pursuant to this chapter.
D.C. Code § 7-2371.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23D / § 7-2371.02
§ 7-2371.02. Access by the public to defibrillation.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who or entity that acquires an AED shall ensure that:
  (1) The Facility AED Coordinator receives training from or is certified by the American Heart Association, the American Red Cross, or an equivalent state or nationally recognized course, such as the Heart Saver CPR AED course, in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (“CPR”) and in the use of an AED, and that the users maintain their certification in CPR and AED use;
  (2) The defibrillator is maintained and tested according to the manufacturer’s operational guidelines, and written records of the maintenance and testing are maintained; and
  (3) Repealed.
  (4) Any person who uses an AED to provide emergency care or treatment on a person in cardiac arrest shall call 9-1-1 as soon as possible.
(b) Repealed.
(b-1) The Department shall:
  (1) Oversee all efforts to improve and maintain access by the public to AEDs, including by setting AED deployment strategies and liaising with District government agencies; and
  (2) Review each case in which an AED is used.
(c) Any person or entity who acquires an AED shall notify the Chief of the Department, or the Chief's designee, and the call center, as defined in § 1-327.51(2) , of the AED and the location and type of the AED.  If an AED is removed, the Chief of the Department shall be notified.  The Chief of the Department may issue a citation if the requirements of this subsection are not followed; provided, that the Chief of the Department has adopted regulations governing the issuance of the citations.
D.C. Code § 7-213 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-213
§ 7-213. Reports of fetal deaths.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1231.14 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12A / § 7-1231.14
§ 7-1231.14. Consent of youth receiving mental health services or mental health supports.
Status: in_force

(a) Except for those minors hospitalized pursuant to the emergency provisions in subchapter III of Chapter 5 of Title 21 , or pursuant to an order of commitment under § 21-545 or § 16-2315 , § 16-2320 , or § 16-1321 [ § 16-2321 ], no minor may be admitted for inpatient mental health services absent the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
(b) (1) A provider may deliver outpatient mental health services and mental health supports other than medication to a minor who is voluntarily seeking such services without parental or guardian consent if the provider determines that:
    (A) The minor is knowingly and voluntarily seeking the services; and
    (B) Provision of the services is clinically indicated for the minor’s well-being.
  (2) Mental health services and mental health supports provided to a minor without the consent of a parent or guardian pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section shall be limited to a period of 90 days. At the end of the 90-day period, the provider shall either:
    (A) Make a new determination pursuant to subsection (b)(1) of this section that provision of services to the minor without parental or guardian consent is voluntarily sought by the minor and continues to be clinically indicated;
    (B) Terminate the services; or
    (C) With the consent of the minor, notify the parent(s) or guardian to obtain consent to provide further outpatient services.
  (3) The provider shall fully document the reasons for its determinations regarding delivery of mental health services to minors, and shall include such documentation in the minor’s clinical record.
  (4) A provider may conduct an initial interview of a minor who appears to be voluntarily seeking outpatient mental health services and mental health supports without parental or guardian consent or involvement in order to determine whether the criteria of subsection (b)(1) of this section are satisfied.
(c) (1) Subject to the provisions in § 7-1231.08 , and absent an emergency, a hospital providing inpatient mental health services to a minor who is under 16 years of age may not administer psychotropic medication to the minor without the consent of a parent or guardian or the authorization of the court;
  (2) A minor who is 16 years of age or older may consent to the administration of psychotropic medications, without the consent of a parent or guardian or the authorization of the court, only under the following circumstances:
    (A) When the minor’s parent(s) or guardian is not reasonably available to make a decision regarding the administration of psychotropic medication and the treating physician determines that the minor has capacity to consent, consistent with § 7-1231.08 , and that such medications are clinically appropriate;
    (B) When requiring consent of the minor’s parent(s) or guardian would have a detrimental effect on the minor, and a determination is made by both the treating physician and a non-treating psychiatrist who is not an employee of the provider that the minor has capacity to consent, consistent with § 7-1231.08 , and that such medications are clinically indicated;
    (C) When the minor’s parent(s) or guardian refuses to give such consent, and a determination is made by both the treating physician and a non-treating psychiatrist who is not an employee of the provider that the minor has capacity to consent, consistent with § 7-1231.08 , and that such medications are clinically indicated. Notice of the provider’s decision to administer medications pursuant to this subsection shall be provided to the parent(s) or guardian in writing.
D.C. Code § 7-1905 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1905
§ 7-1905. Provision of protective services.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The Department shall ensure that protective services are promptly provided if:
    (A) After an APS worker conducts an investigation under § 7-1904 , the Department determines that an adult is in need of protective services due to abuse, neglect, or exploitation by a third party;
    (B) The adult in need of protective services, or a person authorized by law or court order to consent to the provision of protective services on behalf of the adult, affirmatively consents to the particular services offered;
    (C) Reasonable access is not denied by a 3rd person; and
    (D) The adult in need of protective services, if not indigent and exigent circumstances do not dictate otherwise, agrees to reimburse the District or make a reasonable contribution pursuant to the rules to be issued under § 7-1909(3) .
  (2) The Department’s legal obligation to ensure the provision of protective services shall, except as provided in § 7-1912(c)(1) , not exceed 90 days of services for each adult found to be in need of protective services. This 90-day limitation shall begin with the 1st day of services, apply to only those days on which services are actually provided, and include any days on which services are provided under a protection order issued pursuant to § 7-1906 or § 7-1907 . The Department’s decision to limit services in a particular case to fewer than 90 days, its determination as to the type or level of services provided, and allegations of noncompliance with this chapter are judicially reviewable only in accordance with § 7-1912(c)(1) .
(a-1) Subject to the availability of resources, the Department may provide protective services if:
  (1) After an APS worker conducts an investigation under § 7-1904 , the Department determines that an adult is in need of protective services due to self-neglect;
  (2) The adult in need of protective services, or a person authorized by law or court order to consent to the provision of protective services on behalf of the adult, affirmatively consents to the particular services offered;
  (3) Reasonable access is not denied by a third person; and
  (4) The adult in need of protective services, if not indigent and exigent circumstances do not dictate otherwise, agrees to reimburse the District or make reasonable contribution pursuant to the rules issued under § 7-1909 .
(b) If an adult in need of protective services due to abuse, neglect, self-neglect, or exploitation objects to the provision of particular services and it does not manifestly appear to the APS worker that the adult is incapacitated or that the objection is prompted by fear or intimidation instilled by another, the adult shall be entitled to refuse those services and this right of refusal shall be fully respected.
(c) In any case under this section involving abuse, neglect, or exploitation by a third party that does not meet the requirements of subsection (a)(1) of this section, the Department or other agency designated by the Mayor may provide protective services only after the Attorney General obtains a protection order pursuant to § 7-1906 or § 7-1907 .
(c-1) In any case under this section involving self-neglect, if an APS worker has good cause to believe that an adult is incapacitated, the APS worker, the Department, or the Attorney General may:
  (1) Petition the court for appointment of a guardianship of the adult or a conservatorship of the estate of the adult (or a limited guardianship or conservatorship) under Chapter 20 of Title 21 ;
  (2) Make referrals or provide information about the adult and the investigation to the appropriate public or private agencies, and monitor the results of any such referrals, as appropriate;
  (3) Provide protective services to the extent possible under the circumstances; or
  (4) Provide protective services when and if a person authorized by law or court order to consent to the provision of protective services on behalf of the adult, affirmatively consents to the particular services offered.
(d) 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 providing protective services.
(e) When determining the appropriateness of particular services, the Department or other designated agency shall first consider those protective services that encourage maximum self-determination and are least restrictive of personal liberty.
(f) No provision of subsections (a-1) or (c-1) of this section shall be construed to create an entitlement (either direct or implied) on the part of any individual or family to any services under this chapter for an adult who meets the criteria for self-neglect or who is determined to be at risk due to self-neglect.
D.C. Code § 7-1203.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1203.06
§ 7-1203.06. Redisclosure.
Status: in_force

Mental health information disclosed pursuant to this subchapter shall not be redisclosed except as specifically authorized by subchapter II, III or IV of this chapter or for the purposes of and in accordance with Chapter 2B of this title [ § 7-241 et seq.].
D.C. Code § 7-2808 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28 / § 7-2808
§ 7-2808. Standards for security and fire alarm systems.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall install or maintain an audible alarm system which creates a sound capable of being mistakenly identified as that of an emergency vehicle siren or a civil defense warning siren.
(b) The Mayor is authorized to deactivate any exterior audible alarm system which continues to emit a sound for more than one-half hour.
(c) No person shall install or maintain an alarm system which does not have some safeguard which allows reasonable delay to halt or recall an accidental alarm activation before the alarm is communicated to the Metropolitan Police Department or District of Columbia Fire Department for response to the scene.
D.C. Code § 7-661.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6B / § 7-661.06
§ 7-661.06. Medical record documentation requirements.
Status: in_force

(a) The attending physician shall document and file in the medical record of the patient requesting a covered medication:
  (1) All oral requests by a patient for a covered medication;
  (2) All written requests by a patient for a covered medication;
  (3) The attending physician's:
    (A) Diagnosis and prognosis of the patient;
    (B) Determination that the patient is a District resident and is capable, acting voluntarily, and has made an informed decision when requesting a covered medication;
    (C) Offer to the patient to rescind his or her request for a covered medication before the patient makes his or her second oral request;
    (D) Notation that all requirements under this chapter have been met; and
    (E) Notation regarding all steps taken to carry out the patient's request for a covered medication, including a notation of the covered medication prescribed;
  (4) The consulting physician's:
    (A) Diagnosis and prognosis of the patient;
    (B) Verification that the patient is capable, acting voluntarily, and has made an informed decision when requesting a covered medication; and
  (5) If a patient is referred to counseling pursuant to § 7-661.04 , a report by the psychiatrist or psychologist of the outcome and determinations made during counseling.
D.C. Code § 7-2381.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23D / § 7-2381.03
§ 7-2381.03. Authorized use.
Status: in_force

An employee or agent of an authorized entity who has completed the training program described in § 7-2381.04 may use an epinephrine auto-injector prescribed pursuant to § 7-2381.02 to:
(a) (1) Provide an epinephrine auto-injector to any individual who the employee or agent believes in good faith is experiencing anaphylaxis, for immediate administration;
  (2) Provide an epinephrine auto-injector to the parent, guardian, or caregiver of an individual who the employee or agent believes in good faith is experiencing anaphylaxis, for immediate administration; or
  (3) Administer an epinephrine auto-injector to any individual who the employee or agent believes in good faith is experiencing anaphylaxis.
D.C. Code § 7-2807 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28 / § 7-2807
§ 7-2807. Duties of security alarm users.
Status: in_force

(a) An alarm system user shall not cause or permit any false alarm.
(b) It shall be the responsibility of alarm users to instruct any employees or others who may have occasion to activate an alarm that alarm systems are to be activated only in emergency situations to summon an immediate police or fire department response. Alarm users shall also instruct appropriate employees as to the operation of the alarm system, to include setting, activation, and resetting of the alarm.
(c) Alarm users shall be responsible for seeing that alarm systems are maintained in good working order and that defects which could cause false alarms are promptly repaired.
(d) Users of alarm systems who have not contracted with an alarm dealer for an alarm agent to respond to the scene of alarm activations shall indicate the telephone numbers of at least 2 responsible persons who are capable of deactivating and resetting the alarm system and of assisting the police or fire department to secure the premises, if necessary, and who may be notified by the Metropolitan Police Department or District of Columbia Fire Department to respond to the scene by either: (1) posting the names of such persons on a sticker or other sign on the premises in a conspicuous place visible from outside the premises; or (2) filing the names with the Mayor as defined by regulation. Such person or persons shall respond to the scene within one-half hour after being requested to do so by the Metropolitan Police Department or District of Columbia Fire Department, unless good cause is shown.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.12 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.12
§ 7-1131.12. Transfer of functions, property, and personnel.
Status: in_force

(a) All real and personal property, Career and Excepted Service, Management Supervisory Service, and trainee positions, assets, records, and obligations, and all unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available relating to the powers, duties, functions, operations, and administration of the Commission on Mental Health Services under receivership in Dixon, et al. v. Williams, et al., shall become the property of the Department on December 18, 2001.
(b) All real and personal property, positions, assets, records, and obligations, and all unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available relating to the powers, duties, functions, and operations of the “Compact Administrator” of the Interstate Compact on Mental Health as set forth in Chapter 11 of this title , shall become the property of the Department on December 18, 2001.
(c) All positions, real and personal property, assets, records, and obligations, and all unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available relating to the powers, duties, functions, and operations of the Department of Health in regulating mental health facilities, mental health services, and mental health supports, shall be transferred to the Department no later than September 30, 2001, in accordance with the terms of the memoranda of agreement executed pursuant to § 7-1131.04(17) .
(d) The Department shall recognize and bargain with collective bargaining representatives that have been duly certified by the District of Columbia Public Employees Relations Board and shall assume and be bound by all existing collective bargaining agreements entered into by the Commission on Mental Health Services, if those agreements have been approved by the Council, unless Council approval is not required by law and, during a control year as defined in § 47-393(4) , the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority.
(e) Every employee of the Commission on Mental Health Services shall be transferred to the Department. An employee transferred to the Department shall be transferred in the same classification he or she held at the Commission on Mental Health Services or other department at the time of the transfer. Subject to the District’s authority to convert them to the Management Supervisory Service and the Legal Service consistent with Chapter 6 of Title 1 , transferred employees shall retain all rights and privileges related to their individual pay and benefits, including retirement status, so long as the employee is continuously employed by the Department or the District government, including any applicable rights and privileges provided for in § 44-906 .
(f) The following rules and regulations pertaining to the licensing, certification, and delivery of mental health services and mental health supports shall remain in full force and effect unless and until repealed or superseded by action of the Department of Mental Health:
  (1) Chapter 38 of Title 22 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (Community Residence Facilities for Mentally Ill Persons), except that the Department of Mental Health shall perform all functions that Chapter 38 vests in the Commission on Mental Health Services, and shall perform the following functions instead of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, the Department of Health, and the Department of Human Services:
    (A) Training persons who directly provide mental health services or mental health supports to consumers of mental health services through their employment by a community residence facility;
    (B) Certifying that the admission of consumers of mental health services to a mental health community facility is medically necessary;
    (C) Making determinations under 22 DCMR § 3826.3;
    (D) Receiving written admission criteria under 22 DCMR § 3827.3;
    (E) Receiving written reasons for denials of admission under 22 DCMR § 3827.5; and
    (F) Licensing mental health community residential facilities as required by 22 DCMR § 3800.5; and
  (2) Chapter 46 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (Mobile Community Outreach Treatment Team Services), except that the Department shall have concurrent authority with the Medical Assistance Administration to audit and review records and reports of consumers of mental health services and providers, and shall perform the following functions instead of the Commission on Mental Health Services and the Medical Assistance Administration:
    (A) Certifying providers of mobile community outreach treatment team services;
    (B) Operating one mobile community outreach treatment team;
    (C) Authorizing admission and assignment of consumers of mental health services to mobile community outreach treatment teams; and
    (D) Granting approvals and waivers.
(g) The following rules and regulations pertaining to the licensing, certification, and delivery of mental health services and mental health supports shall remain in full force and effect until the Department of Mental Health promulgates standards and procedures in accordance with § 7-1131.14(2) -(4):
  (1) Chapter 7 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (Medicaid Day Treatment Programs), except that the Department shall have concurrent authority with the Department of Health to audit and review records of providers, and shall perform the following functions instead of the Department of Human Services:
    (A) Certifying Medicaid day treatment programs for consumers of mental health services; and
    (B) Granting approvals and waivers;
  (2) Chapter 8 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (Free Standing Mental Health Clinics), except that the Department shall have concurrent authority with the Department of Health to audit and review records of providers, and shall perform the following functions instead of the Department of Human Services:
    (A) Certifying providers of freestanding mental health clinics;
    (B) Determining the qualifications of administrators of freestanding mental health clinics; and
    (C) Granting approvals and waivers; and
  (3) Section 948 of Title 29 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (Standards for Participation of Residential Treatment Centers for Children and Youth), except that the Department shall have concurrent authority with the Department of Health and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to audit and review records of providers, and shall perform the following functions instead of the Department of Human Services:
    (A) Certifying residential treatment centers for children and youth; and
    (B) Certifying that the admission of consumers of mental health services to residential treatment centers is medically necessary.
D.C. Code § 7-1305.09 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1305.09
§ 7-1305.09. Experimental research.
Status: in_force

Persons shall have a right not to be subjected to experimental research without the express and informed consent of the person, or if the person cannot give informed consent, of the person’s parent or guardian. Such proposed research shall first have been reviewed and approved by the Department on Disability Services before such consent shall be sought. Prior to such approval, the Department shall determine that such research complies with the principles of the statement on the use of human subjects for research of the American Association on Mental Deficiency and with the principles for research involving human subjects required by the United States Department of Health and Human Services for projects supported by that agency.
D.C. Code § 7-1801.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 18 / § 7-1801.02
§ 7-1801.02. Requirements.
Status: in_force

Any tobacco product manufacturer selling cigarettes to consumers within the District of Columbia (whether directly or through a distributor, retailer, or similar intermediary or intermediaries) after June 30, 1999 shall do one of the following:
(1) Become a participating manufacturer (as that term is defined in section II(jj) of the Master Settlement Agreement) and generally perform its financial obligations under the Master Settlement Agreement; or
(2) (A) Place into a qualified escrow fund by April 15 of the year following the year in question the following amounts (as such amounts are adjusted for inflation):
    (i) 1999: $.0094241 per unit sold after June 30, 1999;
    (ii) 2000: $.0104712 per unit sold;
    (iii) For each of 2001 and 2002: $.0136125 per unit sold;
    (iv) For each 2003 through 2006: $.0167539 per unit sold; and
    (v) For each of 2007 and each year thereafter: $.0188482 per unit sold.
  (B) A tobacco product manufacturer that places funds into escrow pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this paragraph shall receive the interest or other appreciation on such funds as earned. Such funds themselves shall be released from escrow only under the following circumstances:
    (i) To pay a judgment or settlement on any released claim brought against such tobacco product manufacturer by the District of Columbia or any releasing party located or residing in the District of Columbia. Funds shall be released from escrow under this subparagraph in the order in which they were placed into escrow and only to the extent and at the time necessary to make payments required under such judgment or settlement;
    (ii) To the extent that a tobacco product manufacturer establishes that the amount it was required to place into escrow on account of units sold in the District of Columbia in a particular year was greater than the Master Settlement Agreement payments, as determined pursuant to section IX(i) of the Master Settlement Agreement, including after final determination of all adjustments that the manufacturer would have been required to make on account of such units sold had it been a participating manufacturer, the excess shall be released from escrow and revert back to the tobacco product manufacturer; or
    (iii) To the extent not released from escrow under sub-subparagraphs (i) or (ii) of this subparagraph, funds shall be released from escrow and revert back to such tobacco product manufacturer 25 years after the date on which they were placed into escrow.
  (C) (i) Each tobacco product manufacturer that elects to place funds into escrow pursuant to this paragraph shall annually certify to the Chief Financial Officer of the District of Columbia that it is in compliance with this paragraph. The Corporation Counsel may bring a civil action on behalf of the District of Columbia against any tobacco product manufacturer that fails to place into escrow the funds required under this section. Any tobacco product manufacturer that fails in any year to place into escrow the funds required under this section shall:
      (I) Be required within 15 days to place such funds into escrow as shall bring it into compliance with this section. The court, upon a finding of a violation of this paragraph, may impose a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed 5% of the amount improperly withheld from escrow per day of the violation and in a total amount not to exceed 100% of the original amount improperly withheld from escrow;
      (II) In the case of a knowing violation, be required within 15 days to place such funds into escrow as shall bring it into compliance with this section. The court, upon a finding of a knowing violation of this paragraph, may impose a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed 15 percent of the amount improperly withheld from escrow per day of the violation and in a total amount not to exceed 300% of the original amount improperly withheld from escrow; and
      (III) In the case of a second knowing violation, be prohibited from selling cigarettes to consumers within the District of Columbia (whether directly or through a distributor, retailer, or similar intermediary) for a period not to exceed 2 years.
    (ii) Each failure to make an annual deposit required under this section shall constitute a separate violation.
  (D) If the District of Columbia prevails in a civil suit brought under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, it shall also be entitled to attorneys’ fees, plus the costs of the action.
D.C. Code § 7-1911 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19 / § 7-1911
§ 7-1911. Waiver of privilege.
Status: in_force

Any professional covered by the privilege established in § 14-307 , who has or had as his or her client or patient the adult alleged or determined to be in need of protective services may be required, without the consent of that adult or his or her legal representative, to testify or otherwise disclose confidential information in any court proceeding held pursuant to this chapter if the judge determines that the privilege should be waived in the interest of justice.
D.C. Code § 7-2304 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23 / § 7-2304
§ 7-2304. Issuance of emergency executive order; contents; actions of Mayor after issuance.
Status: in_force

(a) Upon reasonable apprehension of the existence of a public emergency and the determination by the Mayor that the issuance of an order is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety, or welfare, and as a prerequisite to requesting emergency or major disaster assistance in accordance with the Disaster Relief Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. § 5121) the Mayor may issue an emergency executive order which shall state:
  (1) The existence, nature, extent, and severity of the public emergency;
  (2) The measures necessary to relieve the public emergency;
  (3) The specific requirements of the order and the persons upon whom the order is binding; and
  (4) The duration of the order.
(b) Upon the issuance of an emergency executive order the Mayor may:
  (1) Repealed.
  (2) Implement those provisions of the District of Columbia response plan as issued by the Mayor, without regard to established operating procedures relating to the performance of public works, entering into contracts, incurring obligations, employment of temporary workers, rental of equipment, purchase of supplies and materials, and expenditure of public funds; provided, that this paragraph shall apply only to employees of the District of Columbia government;
  (3) Prepare for, order, and supervise the implementation of measures designed to protect persons and property in the District of Columbia. Such measures may include the evacuation of persons in the District of Columbia to such emergency shelters within the District of Columbia as the Mayor may designate, or such shelters outside the District of Columbia as the Mayor may designate with the approval of the Governor of the state to which District of Columbia citizens are to be evacuated, and provision for the reception, sheltering, maintenance, and care of such evacuees. Evacuation of any personnel or activity of the federal government shall take place only with the consent of the President of the United States or the President’s designee; provided, that upon agreement between the federal and District of Columbia governments, any prearranged evacuation plan shall constitute such consent;
  (4) Require the shutting off, disconnection, or suspension of service from, or by, gas mains, electric power lines, or other public utilities;
  (5) Destroy or cause to be destroyed any property, real or personal, in the District of Columbia, found to be contaminated by any matter or substance which renders it deleterious to life or health, and by reason of such contamination is of immediate or imminent danger to persons or property; to cause the removal from the District of Columbia or from place to place within the District of Columbia of any contaminated property; and to prohibit persons from contacting or approaching such property so as to endanger their lives or health;
  (6) Issue orders or regulations to control, restrict, allocate, or regulate the use, sale, production and distribution of food, fuel, clothing, and other commodities, materials, goods, services, and resources as required by the District of Columbia response plan or by any federal emergency plan;
  (7) Direct any person or group of persons, in the District of Columbia, to reduce or otherwise alter the hours during which they conduct business or similar activity at premises established and maintained for a business and to direct any person or group, or class of persons, within the District of Columbia, to remain off the public streets in the event that any public emergency requires that the Mayor institute a curfew;
  (8) Establish such public emergency services units as he or she may deem appropriate;
  (9) Expand existing departmental and agency units within the District of Columbia government concerned with public emergency services;
  (10) Exercise operational direction over all District of Columbia government departments and agencies during the period when an emergency executive order may be in effect;
  (11) Procure supplies and equipment, institute training programs and public information programs and take all other preparatory steps, including the partial or full mobilization of public emergency services units in advance of actual disaster, to insure the furnishing of adequately trained and equipped personnel during a public emergency. Such programs shall be integrated and coordinated with the emergency services plans and programs of the federal government and of the neighboring states and political subdivisions thereof;
  (12) Request predisaster assistance or the declaration of a major disaster from the federal government, certify the need for federal disaster assistance and commit the use of a certain amount of District of Columbia government funds to alleviate the damage, loss, hardship, and suffering resulting from the disaster;
  (13) Prevent or reduce harmful consequences of disaster; or
  (14) Detain for medical reasons any person for which there is probable cause to believe that the person is affected with a communicable disease and that the person’s presence in the general population is likely to cause death or seriously impair the health of others pursuant to subchapter II of Chapter 1 of this title .
D.C. Code § 7-651.12 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.12
§ 7-651.12. Prohibitions and penalties.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1531.14 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1531.14
§ 7-1531.14. Coordination of procurement and use.
Status: in_force

Each hospital in the District of Columbia shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.
D.C. Code § 7-771.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.08
§ 7-771.08. Temporary personnel and procurement authority.
Status: in_force

Effective until October 1, 2009, the Department shall exercise:
(1) Personnel authority to hire, retain, and terminate personnel as appropriate to perform the functions of the Department consistent with Chapter 6 of Title 1 , including establishing compensation and reimbursement consistent with the District’s wage grade and non-wage grade schedules and the Congressionally approved budget; and
(2) Procurement authority independent of the Office of Contracting and Procurement, consistent with Chapter 3A of Title 2 ; except that § 2-352.01a shall not apply.
D.C. Code § 7-2121 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21A / § 7-2121
§ 7-2121. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Emergency contraception” means a drug or drug regimen approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy when administered after sexual contact, including oral contraceptive pills.
(2) “Hospital” means a facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care, including diagnostic, therapeutic, and other health-related services, for a variety of physical or mental conditions, and may, in addition, provide outpatient services, particularly emergency care.
D.C. Code § 7-1201.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1201.02
§ 7-1201.02. Disclosures prohibited; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as specifically authorized by subchapter II, III, or IV of this chapter, no mental health professional, mental health facility, data collector or employee or agent of a mental health professional, mental health facility or data collector shall disclose or permit the disclosure of mental health information to any person, including an employer.
(b) Except as specifically authorized by subchapter II or IV of this chapter, no client in a group session shall disclose or permit the disclosure of mental health information relating to another client in the group session to any person.
(c) No violation of subsection (a) or (b) of this section occurs until a single act or series of acts taken together amount to a disclosure of mental health information.
D.C. Code § 7-1408 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 14 / § 7-1408
§ 7-1408. Special certification and recertification procedures for certain individuals.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1831.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 18 / § 7-1831.04
§ 7-1831.04. True sale.
Status: in_force

(a) The transfer of the District’s right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement to the Corporation or any assignee which the parties have in the governing documentation expressly stated to be a sale or other absolute transfer shall be treated as an absolute transfer of all of the District’s right, title, and interest, as in a true sale, and not as a pledge or other financing, of the District’s right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement, including the moneys payable or received thereunder and any interest thereon (except for the first payment of $16.05 million which has already been received by the District). The grant to the holders of the Bonds of a security interest in, and a lien on, all of the Corporation’s right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement, including the moneys payable or received thereunder and any interest thereon (except for the first payment of $16.05 million which has already been received by the District), the provision by the District of any credit enhancement with respect to the Bonds, or the characterization of the transaction for accounting purposes or securities regulation shall not impair or negate the characterization of any transfer as a true sale. The transfer of the District’s right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement to the Corporation or any assignee shall be deemed perfected as against third persons having claims in tort, contract, or otherwise, including any judicial lien creditors, when a sale or transfer of the right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement in writing has been executed and delivered by the District to the Corporation or any assignee.
(b) The transfer of the Fund’s right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond to the Corporation or any assignee that the parties have in the governing documentation expressly stated to be a sale or other absolute transfer shall be treated as an absolute transfer of all of the Fund’s right, title, and interest, as in a true sale, and not as a pledge or other financing, of the Fund’s right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond, including the moneys payable or received thereunder and any interest thereon. The grant to the holders of the Bonds of a security interest in, and a lien on, all of the Fund’s right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond, including the moneys payable or received thereunder and any interest thereon, the provision by the Fund or the District of any credit enhancement with respect to the Bonds (other than the Residual Bond), or the characterization of the transaction for accounting purposes or securities regulation shall not impair or negate the characterization of any transfer as a true sale. The transfer of the Fund’s right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond to the Corporation or any assignee shall be deemed perfected as against third persons having claims in tort, contract, or otherwise, including any judicial lien creditors, when a sale or transfer of the right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond in writing has been executed and delivered by the Fund to the Corporation or any assignee.
D.C. Code § 7-1561.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1561.04
§ 7-1561.04. Department of Motor Vehicles transfer of information requirements.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1208.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1208.03
§ 7-1208.03. Authority of the Commission on Mental Health.
Status: in_force

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to apply to the operations of the Commission on Mental Health.
D.C. Code § 7-2504.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2504.05
§ 7-2504.05. Revocation of dealer’s license.
Status: in_force

A dealer’s license shall be revoked if:
(1) Any of the criteria in § 7-2504.04 is not currently met;
(2) The information furnished to the Chief on the application for a dealer’s license proves to be intentionally false;
(3) There is a violation or omission of the duties, obligations, or requirements imposed by § 7-2504.04 ; or
(4) The license holder no longer meets any of the criteria required by this subchapter.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.04
§ 7-1671.04. Recommending authorized practitioner; protections.
Status: in_force

(a) A qualifying patient may receive a recommendation from an authorized practitioner to use medical cannabis for a qualifying medical or dental condition or a qualifying medical or dental treatment.
(b) An authorized practitioner may recommend the use of medical cannabis to a qualifying patient, on a form provided by ABCA, if the authorized practitioner makes the recommendation based on an assessment of the qualifying patient's current medical or dental condition.
(c) An authorized practitioner shall not be subject to any penalty, including arrest, prosecution, or disciplinary proceeding, or denial of any right or privilege, for advising a qualifying patient about the use of medical cannabis or recommending the use of medical cannabis to a qualifying patient pursuant to this chapter and any rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 .
(d) An authorized practitioner recommending the use of medical cannabis to a qualifying patient shall not have a professional office located at a retailer, internet retailer, cultivation center, manufacturer, or testing laboratory or receive financial compensation from a cultivation center, manufacturer, or testing laboratory, or a director, officer, member, incorporator, agent, or employee of a retailer, internet retailer, cultivation center, courier, manufacturer, or testing laboratory.
D.C. Code § 7-1003 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 10 / § 7-1003
§ 7-1003. Architectural barrier-free design requirements.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-503.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-503.02
§ 7-503.02. Director.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department shall be headed by a Director ("Director"), who shall be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council, from a list of not more than 3 names submitted to the Mayor by the Commission.
(b) The Director shall be devoted full time to the duties of the office.
(c) The Director shall be in the Executive Service.
(d) The Director shall have such staff as is approved in the current District government budget and federal grants, plus any temporary staff .
D.C. Code § 7-503.09 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 5 / § 7-503.09
§ 7-503.09. LGBTQ seniors and seniors with HIV.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of administering the provisions of the Older Americans Act of 1965, approved July 14, 1965 (Pub. L. No. 89-73; 79 Stat. 218), the Department shall interpret the term "greatest social need," as defined in section 102(24) of the Older Americans Act of 1965, approved September 30, 1992 (106 Stat. 1199; 42 U.S.C. § 3002(24)), to include LGBTQ seniors and seniors with HIV.
(b) The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , shall promulgate rules to carry out the purposes of this section. The rules shall be promulgated within 210 days of December 23, 2020.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term:
  (1) "HIV" means the human immunodeficiency virus.
  (2) "LGBTQ" means an individual who identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, is questioning or exploring their sexuality or sexual identity, or is concerned about applying a social label to themselves related to their sexuality or sexual identity, and who is a resident of the District of Columbia.
  (3) "Senior" means an individual who is 60 years of age or older.
D.C. Code § 7-220 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-220
§ 7-220. Copies or data from records.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2857 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28A / § 7-2857
§ 7-2857. Nonseverability.
Status: in_force

If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstances is held to be unconstitutional, beyond the statutory authority of the Council of the District of Columbia, or otherwise invalid, then all provisions of this chapter shall be deemed invalid.
D.C. Code § 7-2502.16 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2502.16
§ 7-2502.16. Sale of stun guns.
Status: in_force

(a) In order to lawfully sell a stun gun in the District, a vendor shall obtain pursuant to § 47-2851.03 a stun gun endorsement on its basic business license from the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs ("Department") on a form to be provided by the Department.
(b) This section shall not apply to a vendor who sells fewer than 5 stun guns in a 12- month period.
D.C. Code § 7-231.19 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.19
§ 7-231.19. Adoption forms.
Status: in_force

(a) Except for an expedited adoption pursuant to [§ 16-318] , the court shall prepare an adoption form for each adoption decreed by the court. The form shall:
  (1) State facts necessary to locate and identify the original record of live birth of the adoptee;
  (2) Provide the information necessary to establish a new record of live birth for the adoptee;
  (3) Identify the adoption order; and
  (4) Be issued under seal by the court.
(b) The petitioner for adoption or his or her attorney shall supply the information necessary to prepare the adoption form. The social service agency or any individual with knowledge of the facts shall supply the court with any additional information necessary to complete the adoption form. The court shall require such individuals to provide the information prior to issuing a final decree in the matter.
(c) The court shall prepare an adoption form whenever an adoption decree is amended or annulled which shall include the facts necessary to identify the original adoption form and the facts amended in the adoption decree necessary to properly amend the record of live birth.
(d) No later than the final day of each calendar month, the court shall forward to the Registrar adoption forms concerning decrees of adoption, annulments, and amendments of decrees of adoption that were entered in the preceding month, together with any related reports the Registrar may require.
(e) (1) The Registrar shall forward to the Registrar in the state of the adoptee's birth an adoption form and a certified copy of any court decree that annuls or amends a decree of adoption for an individual born outside the District.
  (2) When the court annuls or amends a decree of adoption relating to an individual born in a foreign country, the Registrar shall return the adoption form and decree to the attorney or social service agency handling the adoption for submission to the appropriate federal agency.
(f) (1) If an adoptee was born in a foreign country and was not a citizen of the United States at the time of birth, the Registrar shall prepare a "Record of Foreign Live Birth". The Registrar shall also send a copy of the adoption form, report of annulment of adoption, or amendment of a decree of adoption to the appropriate registration authority.
  (2) If the adoptee was born in a foreign country and through parentage is a citizen of the United States, the Registrar shall not prepare a "Record of Foreign Live Birth" but shall notify the adoptive parents of the procedures for obtaining a revised live birth record for their child through the U.S. Department of State.
D.C. Code § 7-651.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.04
§ 7-651.04. Comfort care bracelet or necklace.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2509.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2509.04
§ 7-2509.04. Duties of licensees.
Status: in_force

(a) A licensee shall comply with all limits and conditions of the license.
(b) A licensee shall notify the Chief in writing:
  (1) Immediately upon discovery of the loss, theft, or destruction of the license and include the circumstances of the loss, theft, or destruction, if known; and
  (2) Within 30 days after a change in the licensee’s name or address as it appears on the license.
(c) A licensee shall have on or about his or her person each time the pistol is carried in the District:
  (1) The license; and
  (2) The registration certificate for the pistol being carried, issued pursuant to this unit.
(d) If a law enforcement officer initiates an investigative stop of a licensee carrying a concealed pistol pursuant to § 22-4506 , the licensee, and any other licensee carrying a concealed pistol pursuant to § 22-4506 who is with the stopped licensee at the time of the investigative stop, shall:
  (1) Disclose to the officer that he or she is carrying a concealed pistol;
  (2) Present the license and registration certificate;
  (3) Identify the location of the concealed pistol; and
  (4) Comply with all lawful orders and directions from the officer, including allowing a pat down of his or her person and permitting the law enforcement officer to take possession of the pistol for so long as is necessary for the safety of the officer or the public.
(e) The duties set forth in this section are in addition to any other requirements imposed by this unit or applicable law.
(f) In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a person who violates this section shall be subject to revocation of his or her license.
D.C. Code § 7-1305.06c — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1305.06c
§ 7-1305.06c. Psychotropic medication review.
Status: in_force

(a) By April 15, 2009, the DDS shall complete a psychotropic medication review for all persons served by DDS.
(b) By October 17, 2008, the DDS shall establish written procedures, which shall include timelines and shall identify responsible entities or persons, for promptly implementing the recommendations for each person identified by the psychotropic medication review.
(c) The psychotropic medication review shall be conducted by a review team that includes professionals with expertise in the prescription, use, and side effects of psychotropic medications as therapy for persons who have been dually diagnosed with intellectual disabilities and mental illness.
(d) DDS shall establish in writing:
  (1) Procedures for an initial administrative review of psychotropic medication prescriptions for all persons served by DDS.
  (2) Procedures and criteria for determining which persons receive only an initial administrative review of psychotropic medications, and which persons also receive a more detailed clinical review of psychotropic medications; and
  (3) Criteria for screening and determining the clinical appropriateness of each psychotropic medication prescribed for each person.
(e) The review team shall complete the initial administrative review of psychotropic medications. The initial administrative review of psychotropic medications shall determine, at minimum, for each person served by DDS:
  (1) All prescribed psychotropic medications;
  (2) The diagnosis justifying each prescription;
  (3) The provision of informed consent for each prescription;
  (4) The presence of an accompanying behavioral plan; and
  (5) Any other mental health services being provided to the person.
(f) The review team shall conduct a clinical review of psychotropic medications when the initial administrative review meets the review team’s criteria indicating that a detailed clinical review of the person’s psychotropic medication is warranted. The clinical review shall seek to determine the clinical appropriateness of each prescribed psychotropic medication and the potential for alternative approaches. The clinical review shall include, at a minimum, interviews with the person, the prescribing professional, and the person’s residential and day service providers, if any.
(g) By no later than 30 days after completing a psychotropic medication review of a person, the review team shall issue a written report, which shall include recommendations for:
  (1) Continued use, modification, or termination of psychotropic medication;
  (2) Potential use of alternative approaches, including therapies, behavioral plans, skill development, and environmental modifications;
  (3) Informed consent, if informed consent has not been provided; and
  (4) Development of a behavioral plan, if no behavioral plan is present.
(h) A copy of the written report of the review team shall be appended to the person’s person habilitation plan and shall be provided to:
  (1) The person;
  (2) The person’s legal representative, if any;
  (3) The person’s advocate for a person with an intellectual disability, if any;
  (4) The person’s DDS case manager;
  (5) Other persons identified in the person’s person habilitation plan as reasonably available, mentally capable, and willing to provide substituted consent pursuant to § 21-2210 , if any;
  (6) The person’s residential service provider; and
  (7) The Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities, Inc.
D.C. Code § 7-863.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8C / § 7-863.03
§ 7-863.03. Establishment of Early Intervention Program and Interagency Coordinating Council.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established in the District of Columbia an Early Intervention Program (“Program”) to provide early intervention services to infants and toddlers, from birth through 2 years of age, and their families. The program shall be administered by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education. The services shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, approved June 4, 1997 (111 Stat. 37; 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq.).
(b) There is established an Interagency Coordinating Council to advise and assist the Mayor with the implementation of the Program, including the establishment of interagency agreements.
(c) Early intervention services shall not be required under this subchapter, if a minor’s parent or guardian submits in good faith a written notarized statement to the appropriate official affirming the intervention in question would violate the established tenets and practices of the parent’s or guardian’s church or religious denomination.
D.C. Code § 7-1751 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1751
§ 7-1751. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:
(1) “Cigarette” means any product that contains any amount of nicotine, regardless of size, shape, or presence of other ingredients, that is intended to be burned or heated and consists of or contains any roll of tobacco wrapped in paper, or in any other substance other than tobacco, and because of its appearance, the type of tobacco used, and its packaging or labeling is offered to or purchased by consumers for smoking.
(2) “Consumer testing” means an assessment of cigarettes that is conducted by a manufacturer, or under the control and direction of a manufacturer, for the purpose of evaluating consumer acceptance of the cigarettes, utilizing only the quantity of cigarettes that is reasonably necessary for the assessment, and in a controlled setting where the cigarettes are either consumed on-site or returned to the testing administrators at the conclusion of the testing.
(3) “Fire-standard-compliant cigarette” means a cigarette that:
  (A) Has been tested pursuant to this subchapter; and
  (B) Has met the performance standard required by this subchapter.
(4) “Manufacturer” means any person or entity that manufactures or produces cigarettes or causes cigarettes to be manufactured or produced, whether in or outside the District, for sale in the District directly or through an importer, wholesale dealer, or retail dealer, including any first purchaser that intends to resell cigarettes.
(5) “Quality control and quality assurance program” means laboratory procedures implemented to ensure that operator bias, systematic and nonsystematic methodological errors, and equipment-related problems do not affect the results of the testing and that maintain a repeatability value of no greater than 0.19.
(6) “Repeatability” means the range of values within which the repeat results of cigarette test trials from a single laboratory will fall 95% of the time.
(7) “Retail dealer” means any person, other than a manufacturer or wholesale dealer, engaged in the sale of cigarettes.
(8) “Sale” or “selling” means any transfer of title or possession, or both, exchange or barter, conditional or otherwise, including the giving of cigarettes as samples, prizes, or gifts, and the exchange of cigarettes for any consideration.
(9) “Wholesale dealer” means any person, including a wholesale dealer’s agent, that sells cigarettes to retail dealers or other persons for resale, including any person that owns, operates, or maintains one or more cigarette vending machines in the District of Columbia.
D.C. Code § 7-803 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8 / § 7-803
§ 7-803. Treatment by other than registered physician.
Status: in_force

No person other than a registered physician shall treat any case of inflammation of the eyes, attended by a discharge therefrom, of a newborn child for any period longer than may be necessary to obtain the services of a registered physician.
D.C. Code § 7-771.05a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.05a
§ 7-771.05a. Assessment Fund.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established as a special fund the Assessment Fund (“Fund”), which shall be administered by the Department of Health Care Finance in accordance with subsection (c) of this section.
(b) The Fund shall consist of revenue from the following sources:
  (1) User fees; and
  (2) Enrollment fees.
(c) The Fund shall be used for the following purposes:
  (1) Administration and maintenance of the Department’s provider operations;
  (2) Enrollment activities; and
  (3) Health information exchange activities.
(d) (1) The money deposited into the Fund, and interest earned, 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 at any other time.
  (2) Subject to authorization by Congress, any funds appropriated in the Fund shall be continually available without regard to fiscal year limitation.
D.C. Code § 7-3003.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 30 / § 7-3003.01
§ 7-3003.01. Establishment of the Access to Recovery Voucher program.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established the Access to Recovery Voucher Program (“ATR”), which shall be administered by APRA. The purpose of ATR shall be to provide District residents with access to culturally sensitive substance-abuse treatment and recovery-support services for the duration of the 3-year federal Access to Recovery grant awarded to APRA and to serve as an addition and complement to the Choice in Drug Treatment Program, established by § 7-3003 .
(b) The duty of APRA to administer ATR shall include:
  (1) Community outreach and education;
  (2) Collaborating with federal and local agencies in regard to individuals returning to the community after being incarcerated who require substance-abuse treatment or recovery-support services; and
  (3) Ensuring that ATR achieves the projected target of serving over 11,000 individuals.
D.C. Code § 7-1531.19f — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1531.19f
§ 7-1531.19f. Rulemaking for Registry.
Status: in_force

The Mayor may issue rules necessary to implement the provisions of §§ 7-1531.19 through 7-1531.19e .
D.C. Code § 7-1401 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 14 / § 7-1401
§ 7-1401. Health Care Safety Net Administration establishment.
Status: in_force

(a) There is established within the Department of Health Care Finance a Health Care Safety Net Administration to administer and monitor compliance with any contract that the Mayor makes, pursuant to § 7-1405 , or that the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility Management Assistance Authority makes, with a health care entity to provide any of the health care functions provided by the Public Benefit Corporation pursuant to Chapter 11 of Title 44 and to perform such other functions as are set forth herein.
(b) The Health Care Safety Net Administration shall be responsible for all transition activities that result from contracting out the functions of the Public Benefit Corporation and that remain to be completed after abolition of the Public Benefit Corporation pursuant to § 9 of the Health Care Privatization Amendment Act of 2001, effective July 12, 2001 ( D.C. Law 14-18 ; 48 DCR 4047), including the following:
  (1) Termination and winding down of existing contracts of the Public Benefit Corporation;
  (2) Completion of administrative proceedings and court litigation previously handled by the Office of the General Counsel of the Public Benefit Corporation or by private counsel retained by the Public Benefit Corporation;
  (3) Coordination of court litigation involving the Public Benefit Corporation that is being handled by the Office of the Corporation Counsel;
  (4) Arrangement of outstanding claims against the Public Benefit Corporation; and
  (5) Arrangement for payment of lawful obligations of the Public Benefit Corporation that are assumed by the District of Columbia pursuant to § 7-1403 .
(c) The Health Care Safety Net Administration shall exercise oversight of the services contracted by the Mayor pursuant to § 7-1405 , or by the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, to ensure that the health of the population is maintained and that the financial viability of the health care entity providing services exempted pursuant to section 8 of the Health Care Privatization Amendment Act of 2001, effective July 12, 2001 ( D.C. Law 14-18 ; 48 DCR 4047), is addressed.
D.C. Code § 7-1231.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12A / § 7-1231.05
§ 7-1231.05. Service planning.
Status: in_force

(a) Consumers shall have the right to meaningful participation in the development of their service plans, as well as the opportunity to participate in planning for their transition from one provider to another. Such service planning shall include the right to be informed about one’s own condition and legal status, and of proposed or current services, treatment, therapies, or other available alternatives. In the course of service planning, no individual mental health service or mental health support shall be conditioned upon agreement to accept another service or support.
(b) Beginning at least one year before a consumer transitions into the system of care for adults, or sooner if required under applicable law such as IDEA, a youth’s Individual Plan of Care shall be revised to include a statement regarding the needed transition services for the youth, including, if appropriate, a statement of the interagency responsibilities or any needed linkages with other services and supports.
(c) The opportunities for participation in service planning described in this section shall extend to the consumer’s family members or personal representative if the consumer so requests orally or in writing. Family members or personal representatives who are participating in the consumer’s service planning, and to whom the consumer has authorized the release of information in accordance with Chapter 12 of this title , shall be notified whenever there is a substantial change in the consumer’s services or placement.
(d) The consumer may revoke his or her consent to the participation or authorization for notification described in subsection (c) of this section at any time.
(e) The Department, or other providers as appropriate, shall be responsible for ensuring that a consumer’s service plan is implemented.
D.C. Code § 7-1303.12 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1303.12
§ 7-1303.12. Court hearing required prior to commitment.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in § 7-1303.12a , no person with an intellectual disability shall be committed under this chapter prior to the Court hearing required under this subchapter.
D.C. Code § 7-2071.13 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20A / § 7-2071.13
§ 7-2071.13. Contingent effectiveness of chapter.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-3014 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 30 / § 7-3014
§ 7-3014. Choice in Drug Treatment Advisory Commission.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-671.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6C / § 7-671.07
§ 7-671.07. Immunity from liability for providing information to the Committee.
Status: in_force

(a) Any person, hospital, or institution participating in good faith in providing information to the Committee pursuant to this chapter shall have immunity from administrative, civil, or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to the disclosure of the information. In any such proceeding, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the person, hospital, or institution that provided information to the Committee acted in good faith.
(b) If acting in good faith, without malice, and within the parameters of the operating rules and procedures established pursuant to this chapter , members of the Committee are immune from civil liability for an activity related to reviews of maternal mortalities.
D.C. Code § 7-2507.06a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2507.06a
§ 7-2507.06a. Seizure and forfeiture of conveyances.
Status: in_force

Any conveyance in which a person or persons transport, possess, or conceal any firearm, as that term is defined in § 7-2501.01 , or in any manner use to facilitate a violation of § 7-2502.02 or § 22-4503 or § 22-4504 , is subject to forfeiture pursuant to the standards and procedures set forth in D.C. Law 20-278 .
D.C. Code § 7-1615 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16 / § 7-1615
§ 7-1615. Participant selection and grant award criteria.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department of Health shall establish criteria for:
  (1) The selection of community HIV/AIDS service providers to participate in the initiative; and
  (2) Awarding grants to initiative participants, including a requirement that the fiduciary agent of any collaborative representing a ward must be located in the ward.
(b) All grants awarded pursuant to the initiative shall be subject to terms and conditions approved by the Department of Health.
D.C. Code § 7-2005 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2005
§ 7-2005. Repayment.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2271.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 22 / § 7-2271.07
§ 7-2271.07. Report to the Mayor, Council, and the public.
Status: in_force

The Commission shall report on an annual basis to the Mayor and Council on the work of the Commission and areas of the Homeland Security Program in need of improvement and shall make the annual report available to the public.
D.C. Code § 7-751.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7B / § 7-751.07
§ 7-751.07. Program participation.
Status: in_force

(a) As a condition of participation in the Program, selected applicants shall enter into a contract with the Director and a representative of the service obligation site agreeing to the following terms and conditions:
  (1) Participants shall provide a minimum of 2 years with a maximum of 4 years services at a service obligation site. Any service beyond the 2 year minimum requirement is dependent upon the availability of funds for the Program.
  (2) (A) Full-time participants shall provide service of at least 1,800 hours per year. On-call status shall not count toward the annual 1,800 hour requirement. Exceptions to the 1,800 hour annual requirement or the on-call provision of this subparagraph may be approved by the Director prior to placement.
    (B) Part-time participants shall provide service of at least 900 hours per year. On-call status does not count toward the annual 900 hour requirement. Exceptions to the 900 hour annual requirement or the on-call provision of this subparagraph may be approved by the Director prior to placement.
  (3) Participants agree to provide reasonable, usual, and customary health services without discrimination and regardless of a patient’s ability to pay.
  (4) No period of internship, residency, or other advanced clinical training may count toward satisfying a period of obligated service under this Program.
  (5) Any participant who is found in breach of contract is deemed to have agreed, as a condition of contract, to all penalties as set forth in § 7-751.13 .
(b) An existing contract may be renewed for one year at a time up to a maximum of 4 total years of service, as funds become available.
(c) The participant shall begin service no later than 12 months from entering into the contract. The effective start date of the obligated service is the date of employment or the date the Director signs the contract, whichever is later.
(d) Non-compete clauses are prohibited in all contracts for Program participation.
D.C. Code § 7-1721.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1721.08
§ 7-1721.08. Prohibitions on flavored tobacco products and electronic smoking devices.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, receive for sale, distribute, purchase, or facilitate the sale of:
  (1) A flavored tobacco product; or
  (2) An electronic smoking device within one quarter mile of any middle or high school in the District.
(b) There shall be a rebuttable presumption that a tobacco product is a flavored tobacco product if a manufacturer or any of the manufacturer's agents or employees, in the course of their agency or employment, has:
  (1) Made a public statement or claim directed to the public regarding a characterizing flavor;
  (2) Used text or images on the tobacco product's packaging to explicitly or implicitly indicate that the tobacco product imparts a characterizing flavor; or
  (3) Taken action directed to consumers that would be reasonably expected to cause consumers to believe that the tobacco product imparts a characterizing flavor.
(c) Any license to sell tobacco products issued pursuant to § 47-2404 :
  (1) May be suspended, after a hearing, for a first or second violation of subsection (a) of this section; and
  (2) Shall be revoked, after a hearing, for a third or subsequent violation of subsection (a) of this section.
(d) In addition to the penalties described in § 7-1721.07(a)(4) , a violation of subsection (a) of this section shall constitute a violation of § 28-3904 . The Attorney General for the District of Columbia may use the Attorney General's investigatory powers pursuant to § 28-3910 and enforcement authority pursuant to § 28-3909 to investigate or prosecute suspected violations of subsection (a) of this section.
(e) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the sale for on-site consumption of flavored tobacco products intended to be used with a hookah shall be permitted for any hookah bar doing business in the District as of September 30, 2021.  All flavored tobacco products sold pursuant to this subsection shall be consumed on site and may not be taken off premises.
  (2) A hookah bar doing business in the District as of September 30, 2021, shall not need to relocate to be in compliance with this section.
D.C. Code § 7-1234.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12C / § 7-1234.01
§ 7-1234.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(a) For the purposes of this chapter , the term:
  (1) "Certified midwife" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 3-1201.01(1B-i) .
  (2) "Certified nurse-midwife" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 3-1201.01(1C) .
  (3) "Certified professional midwife" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 3-1201.01(1D) .
  (4) "Culturally congruent" means care or maternity care that is in agreement with the preferred cultural values, beliefs, worldview, language, and practices of the health care consumer and other stakeholders.
  (5) "Doula" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 3-1201.01(6C) .
  (6) "Home visiting program" means an entity that:
    (A) Supports expectant parents and parents or legal guardians with infants, toddlers, and children between 3 and 5 years of age; and
    (B) Provides access to health, social, and educational services through weekly or monthly home visits to promote positive child health and development outcomes, including healthy home environments, healthy birth outcomes, and a reduction in adverse childhood experiences.
  (7) "Perinatal period" means the period of pregnancy and one year thereafter during which time perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are typically diagnosed.
  (8) "Postpartum recovery" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 2-1515.51(5) .
  (9) "Task Force" means the Perinatal Mental Health Task Force established by § 7-1234.02 .
  (10) "Vulnerable populations" means populations at risk of or living with undiagnosed, underserved, untreated, or undertreated perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
D.C. Code § 7-1541.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1541.01
§ 7-1541.01. Statement of policy and purpose.
Status: in_force

Because of the rapid medical progress in the field of tissue preservation, tissue transplantation, and tissue culture, and because it is in the public interest to aid the development of this field of medicine, it is the policy and purpose of Congress in enacting this subchapter and the amendments to §§ 43-119 and 43-125 to encourage and aid the development of reconstructive medicine and surgery and the development of medico-surgical research by providing for the licensing and regulation of tissue banks, and by facilitating antemortem and postmortem authorizations for donations of tissue.
D.C. Code § 7-2048 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2048
§ 7-2048. Injunctions.
Status: in_force

(a) The Corporation Counsel may bring an action in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in the name of the District of Columbia to enjoin any violation of this subchapter.
(b) Remedies established by this section shall be in addition to criminal sanctions, civil sanctions, or disciplinary action initiated by the Mayor.
(c) In any proceeding brought pursuant to this section, it shall not be necessary to prove that any person has been injured by the violation alleged.
D.C. Code § 7-1941.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19B / § 7-1941.06
§ 7-1941.06. Loan documentation.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1006 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 10 / § 7-1006
§ 7-1006. Equal access to housing.
Status: in_force

(a) Persons with physical or mental disabilities shall be entitled to full and equal access, as other members of the general public, to all housing accommodations offered for rent, lease, or compensation in the District of Columbia, subject to the conditions and limitations established by law or in accordance with law and applicable alike to all persons.
(b) Persons with physical or mental disabilities who have a service animal shall be entitled to full and equal access to all housing accommodations referred to in this section without being denied access because of the service animal. Such persons shall not be required to pay an extra charge for the service animal but shall be liable for any damage done by the service animal.
(c) Nothing in this section shall require any person renting, leasing, or providing real property for compensation in the District of Columbia to modify his property in any way or to provide a higher degree of care for a blind person or person with another physical disability than for a person who does not have a physical disability.
(d) In making a determination that an individual qualifies under this section, a housing provider shall limit any inquiry to the minimum information and documentation necessary to establish that an individual meets the definition of persons with physical or mental disabilities provided in § 7-1009(4) by requiring that a physician or other licensed healthcare professional verify that the individual meets the definition of persons with physical or mental disabilities. A housing provider may also require a person with a disability to demonstrate a nexus between his or her disability and the function that the service animal provides. A housing provider shall not inquire further into the nature or severity of the disability. A housing provider shall not require the individual to provide a description of the disability when making an eligibility determination. A housing provider shall not require the individual to provide eligibility documentation in less than 30 days.
D.C. Code § 7-131 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 1 / § 7-131
§ 7-131. Regulations to prevent spread of communicable diseases.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor may, upon the advice of the Director of the Department of Health and pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2 , issue rules to prevent and control the spread of communicable diseases, environmentally or occupationally related diseases, and other diseases or medical conditions that the Director of the Department of Health has advised should be monitored for epidemiological or other public health reasons. These rules may include, but shall not necessarily be limited to:
  (1) A list of reportable diseases and conditions;
  (2) Reporting procedures; and
  (3) Requirements and procedures for restriction of movement, isolation, and quarantine not inconsistent with this subchapter.
(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, the Director of the Department of Health shall use the records incident to the case of a disease or medical condition reported under this subchapter for statistical and public health purposes only, and identifying information contained in these records shall be disclosed only when essential to safeguard the physical health of others. No person shall otherwise disclose or redisclose identifying information derived from these records unless:
    (A) The person reported gives his or her prior written permission; or
    (B) A court finds, upon clear and convincing evidence and after granting the person reported an opportunity to contest the disclosure, that disclosure:
      (i) Is essential to safeguard the physical health of others; or
      (ii) Would afford evidence probative of guilt or innocence in a criminal prosecution.
  (2) The constraints on disclosure and redisclosure of identifying information set forth in paragraph (1) of this subsection shall not apply to the disclosure and use of information disclosed and used pursuant to:
    (A) Subchapter I of Chapter 13 of Title 4 [ § 4-1301.01 et seq.]; or
    (B) Chapter 23 of Title 16 .
D.C. Code § 7-231.18 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.18
§ 7-231.18. Marriage, divorce, and annulment reporting.
Status: in_force

The court shall complete and forward to the Registrar on or before the 20th day of each month in an electronic format prescribed by the Registrar a report of completed applications and licenses for marriage returned to the court during the preceding month, and a record of each divorce or annulment decree granted during the preceding month.
D.C. Code § 7-1521.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1521.01
§ 7-1521.01. Definitions; short title.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1541.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1541.05
§ 7-1541.05. Authorization by the Chief Medical Examiner.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-302 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 3 / § 7-302
§ 7-302. Confidentiality.
Status: in_force

The Commissioner of Public Health shall use the records incident to a reported case of cancer for statistical and public health purposes only, and identifying information contained in these records shall be disclosed only when essential to safeguard the physical health of others. No person shall otherwise disclose or redisclose identifying information derived from these records unless:
(1) The person reported gives his or her prior written permission;
(2) A court finds, upon clear and convincing evidence and after granting the person reported an opportunity to contest the disclosure, that disclosure is essential to safeguard the physical health of others; or
(3) The identifying information is exchanged with a cancer registry that is maintained by a state and the Commissioner of Public Health receives a satisfactory assurance from the cancer registry that the confidentiality of the identifying information shall be preserved.
D.C. Code § 7-865.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8C-i / § 7-865.01
§ 7-865.01. Support for teen parents program.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) In Fiscal Year 2019, the Department of Human Services shall establish a program to support students in District of Columbia public schools and public charter schools who are pregnant or parenting with the goals of:
    (A) Keeping teen parents engaged in school;
    (B) Improving the graduation rate of teen parents;
    (C) Preparing teen parents for college or a career; and
    (D) Preventing subsequent teen pregnancies.
  (2) The program shall provide supports including case management, supplies and resources, assistance with securing services, educational workshops, incentives, and transportation stipends.
(b) The Department of Human Services may issue a grant, in an amount not to exceed $1 million, to administer the program established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and may enter into other agreements, as necessary, to provide supports to District of Columbia public schools and public charter schools to meet the goals of the program.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.03
§ 7-1671.03. Restrictions on use of medical cannabis.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) The maximum amount of dried medical cannabis that any qualifying patient or caregiver may possess at any moment is 8 ounces.
  (2) The Mayor shall promulgate through rulemaking limits on the amount of medical cannabis in forms other than dried medical cannabis that any qualifying patient or caregiver may possess at any one moment.
(b) Medical cannabis shall only be administered by or to a qualifying patient at:
  (1) A qualifying patient's residence, if permitted;
  (2) The residence of an individual who has given permission to the qualifying patient to administer medical cannabis at the individual's residence, if permitted;
  (3) A medical treatment facility, when the qualifying patient is receiving medical care for a qualifying medical or dental condition or a qualifying medical or dental treatment, if permitted by the medical treatment facility;
  (4) A safe use treatment facility licensed by ABCA pursuant to § 7-1671.06c ; or
  (5) A school in which the qualifying patient is enrolled, if the school has a policy in place for allowing the administration of medication at school; provided, that the medical cannabis shall be in non-smokable form.
(c) A qualifying patient or caregiver shall transport medical cannabis in a labeled container or sealed package in a manner and method established by rulemaking.
(d) Nothing in this chapter permits a person to:
  (1) Undertake any task under the influence of medical cannabis when doing so would constitute negligence or professional malpractice; or
  (2) Operate, navigate, or be in actual physical control of any motor vehicle, aircraft, or motorboat while under the influence of medical cannabis.
(e) The use of medical cannabis as authorized by this chapter and the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 does not create a defense to any crime and does not negate the mens rea element for any crime except to the extent of the voluntary-intoxication defense recognized in District of Columbia law.
(f) Notwithstanding any other law, a person or entity may provide information about the existence or operations of a cultivation center, manufacturer, retailer, internet retailer, courier, or testing laboratory to another person pursuant to this law.
(g) A qualifying patient, caregiver, or an employee of a cultivation center, manufacturer, retailer, internet retailer, courier, testing laboratory, or other holder of a license in a license category established by this chapter or by rulemaking pursuant to this chapter who is stopped by the police upon reasonable suspicion or probable cause that the stopped individual is in possession of cannabis may not be further detained or arrested on this basis alone if the police determine that the individual is in compliance with this chapter and the rules issued pursuant to § 7-1671.13 .
D.C. Code § 7-2856 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28A / § 7-2856
§ 7-2856. Appropriations.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2381.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23D / § 7-2381.02
§ 7-2381.02. Epinephrine prescriptions.
Status: in_force

(a) A health care professional acting in good faith may directly or by standing order prescribe an epinephrine auto-injector to an authorized entity that has an employee or agent who has completed the training program described in § 7-2381.04 .
(b) A pharmacist, in accordance with a health care professional's prescription or standing order, may dispense and distribute an epinephrine auto-injector to an authorized entity to whom an epinephrine auto-injector has been prescribed.
D.C. Code § 7-651.16 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.16
§ 7-651.16. Applicability.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-651.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 6A / § 7-651.05
§ 7-651.05. Revocation of a comfort care order.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1231.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12A / § 7-1231.10
§ 7-1231.10. Information privacy.
Status: in_force

(a) Consumers shall be informed of their right to access their mental health information records and may request correction of inaccurate information contained in the records in accordance with Chapter 12 of this title .
(b) Information and records about a consumer’s mental health services and mental health supports shall be treated confidentially in accordance with Chapter 12 of this title .
D.C. Code § 7-231.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2A / § 7-231.04
§ 7-231.04. Security of vital statistics system.
Status: in_force

To ensure the security of the vital statistics system, the Registrar shall:
(a) (1) Take measures to deter the fraudulent use of vital records;
  (2) Administer and maintain the security of personnel, physical environments, electronic systems, and preservation methods;
  (3) Perform data assurance and record matching activities to protect the confidentiality and security of vital records and prevent their fraudulent use;
  (4) Apply the responsibilities of this section to any authorized partner with access to the vital statistics system;
  (5) Authenticate each user of the vital statistics system or its components, and verify that the user requires access based on the user's official duties;
  (6) Authorize an authenticated user of the vital statistics system to access specific components of the vital statistics systems necessary for the user's official roles and duties;
  (7) Establish separation of duties between staff roles that may be susceptible to fraud or misuse and routinely perform audits of staff work to identify fraud or misuse within the vital statistics system;
  (8) Require each authenticated and authorized user to maintain a specified level of training related to security and provide a written acknowledgment of security policies, procedures, and penalties;
  (9) Validate data provided in reports submitted for registration through site visits or with independent sources outside the registration system at a frequency specified by the Registrar to maximize the integrity of collected data;
  (10) Require each authenticated user to protect personally identifiable information and adhere to protocols that provide for audits of use and protocols for breach identification and notification;
  (11) Receive reports of death if the decedent was born in the District, or from the U.S. Department of Defense or the U.S. Department of State if the decedent was a United States citizen, a resident of the District, and the death occurred outside the United States;
  (12) Provide secure workplace, storage, and technology environments with limited role-based access; and
  (13) Administer and maintain overt, covert, and forensic security measures for certifications, verifications, and automated systems that are part of the vital statistics system.
D.C. Code § 7-3003 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 30 / § 7-3003
§ 7-3003. Establishment of the Drug Treatment Choice Program; purpose.
Status: in_force

There is established the Drug Treatment Choice Program (“Program”). The purpose of the Program is to provide District residents with access to substance abuse rehabilitation and aftercare plans at the treatment provider of their choice in consultation with a qualified substance abuse counselor, and subject to the availability of funds in the Addiction Recovery Fund.
D.C. Code § 7-2231.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 22 / § 7-2231.02
§ 7-2231.02. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this part, the term:
(a) (1) “Agency” means the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
  (1A) "COOP" means the continuity of operations.
  (1B) "COOP Coordinator" means the District government agency employee designated pursuant to § 7-2231.11(b)(1) .
  (1C) "COOP Plan" means the living document containing specific policy and guidance for a District government agency to ensure the District government agency can continue to perform essential functions during short-term and long-term emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies.
  (2) “Director” means the Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.
  (2A) "District COOP Program Manager" means the Agency employee designated pursuant to § 7-2231.11(a)(1) .
  (2B) "District government agency" means a subordinate or independent agency.
  (2C) "Independent agency" means any agency of the District of Columbia government that is not under the direct administrative control of the Mayor.
  (3) “Program” means the Homeland Security Program created by § 7-2231.03 .
  [(4)] Subordinate agency" shall have the same meaning as provided in § 1-603.01(17) .
D.C. Code § 7-1301.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1301.02
§ 7-1301.02. Statement of purpose.
Status: in_force

(a) It is the intent of the Council of the District of Columbia to:
  (1) Assure that residents of the District of Columbia with intellectual or developmental disabilities shall have all the civil and legal rights enjoyed by all other citizens of the District of Columbia and the United States;
  (2) Secure for each resident of the District of Columbia with intellectual or developmental disabilities, regardless of ability to pay, such habilitation as will be suited to the needs of the person, and to assure that such habilitation is skillfully and humanely provided with full respect for the person’s dignity and personal integrity and in a setting least restrictive of personal liberty;
  (3) Encourage and promote the development of the ability and potential of each person with intellectual or developmental disabilities in the District to the fullest possible extent, no matter how severe his or her degree of disability;
  (4) Promote the economic security, standard of living and meaningful employment of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities;
  (5) Maximize the assimilation of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities into the ordinary life of the community in which they live; and
  (6) Provide a mechanism for the identification of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities at the earliest age possible.
(b) To accomplish these purposes, the Council of the District of Columbia finds and declares that the design and delivery of care and habilitation services for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities shall be directed by the principles of normalization, and therefore:
  (1) Community-based services and residential facilities that are least restrictive to the personal liberty of the person shall be established for persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities at each stage of life development;
  (2) The use of institutionalization shall be abated to the greatest extent possible;
  (3) Whenever care in an institution or residential facility is required, it shall be in the least restrictive setting; and
  (4) Persons placed in institutions shall be transferred to community or home environments whenever possible, consistent with professional diagnoses and recommendations.
D.C. Code § 7-703.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7 / § 7-703.02
§ 7-703.02. Access to records.
Status: in_force

(a) Each District agency shall provide cooperation, assistance, data, and the access to records necessary to enable the ombudsman to perform his or her duties under this chapter and other applicable federal and District law. This section shall not be construed to supercede the laws or rules governing access to unexpurgated arrest records maintained by the Metropolitan Police Department or interfere with ongoing criminal investigations.
(b) The ombudsman or his or her designee shall have the same access that is provided to the Mayor to review, inspect, or photocopy the records of a resident of a facility covered by § 44-501 et seq., or § 44-1001.01 et seq., to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(c) The ombudsman or his or her designee may request a subpoena pursuant to § 1-301.21 , to obtain access to records covered by this section.
(d) An owner, employee, or agent of a long-term care facility who lawfully discloses information or permits access to records pursuant to this section shall not be liable for civil penalties or criminal prosecution.
(e) An owner, employee, or agent of a long-term care facility or home care agency subject to 45 CFR §§ 164.500 through 164.534 (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy regulation), shall release records to the program as an exempt health oversight agency.
D.C. Code § 7-217 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-217
§ 7-217. Amendment.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2166 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21D / § 7-2166
§ 7-2166. Statute of limitations.
Status: in_force

(a) An action under § 7-2162(b) for:
  (1) An unauthorized disclosure may not be brought later than 4 years from the date the disclosure was discovered or should have been discovered with the exercise of reasonable diligence; and
  (2) A threat to disclose may not be brought later than 4 years from the date of the threat to disclose.
(b) In an action under § 7-2162(b) by a depicted individual who was a minor on the date of the disclosure or threat to disclose, the time specified in subsection (a) of this section does not begin to run until the depicted individual attains the age of majority.
D.C. Code § 7-1941.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 19B / § 7-1941.01
§ 7-1941.01. Definitions.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-771.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.04
§ 7-771.04. Appointment of Director.
Status: in_force

The Department shall be headed by a Director, who shall:
(1) Be appointed by the Mayor with the advice and consent of the Council, pursuant to § 1-523.01(a) ;
(2) Be qualified by experience and training to carry out the purposes of the Department as set forth in § 7-771.03 ; and
(3) Serve at the pleasure of the Mayor.
D.C. Code § 7-214 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-214
§ 7-214. Final disposition of dead body or fetus.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1531.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1531.11
§ 7-1531.11. Search and notification.
Status: in_force

(a) The following persons shall make a reasonable search of an individual who the person reasonably believes is dead or whose death is imminent for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal:
  (1) A law enforcement officer, firefighter, paramedic, or other emergency rescuer finding the individual; and
  (2) If no other source of the information is immediately available, a hospital, as soon as practical after the individual’s arrival at the hospital.
(b) If a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift is located by the search required by subsection (a)(1) of this section and the individual or deceased individual to whom it relates is taken to a hospital, the person responsible for conducting the search shall send the document of gift or refusal to the hospital.
(c) A person is not subject to criminal or civil liability for failing to discharge the duties imposed by this section, but may be subject to administrative sanctions.
D.C. Code § 7-2905 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 29 / § 7-2905
§ 7-2905. Approval of recommendations.
Status: in_force

(a) The Mayor shall transmit the recommendations of the Commission to the Council for approval.
(b) The recommendations shall be transmitted to the Council for a 45-day period, excluding days of Council recess.  The Council shall take action to approve or disapprove the recommendations.  If the Council does not take action within the 45-day period, the recommendations shall be deemed disapproved.
D.C. Code § 7-1831.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 18 / § 7-1831.01
§ 7-1831.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term:
(1) “Bonds” means the taxable or tax-exempt revenue bonds, notes, or other  obligations (including refunding bonds, notes, and other obligations), which may be issued on a senior or subordinate basis and would include any instrument evidencing the Corporation’s obligations relating to the Residual Interest, authorized to be issued by the Corporation pursuant to this subchapter.
(2) “Corporation” means the District of Columbia Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation established by § 7-1831.03 .
(3) “District” means the District of Columbia.
(4) “Master Settlement Agreement” means the settlement agreement (and related documents), as may be amended from time to time, entered into on November 23, 1998 by the District and leading United States tobacco product manufacturers.
(5) “Purchase Agreement” means a contract, as authorized under § 7-1831.03 , between the Corporation and the District, under which the District sells to the Corporation all of the District’s right, title, and interest in and to the Master Settlement Agreement, including all the moneys, and any interest thereon, payable to or received by the District thereunder (except for the first payment of $16.05 million which has already been received by the District), in exchange for a cash payment from the net proceeds of the sale of the Bonds (other than the Residual Bond), the Residual Bond, and the agreement of the Corporation to repay certain indebtedness of the District.
(5A) “Remainder Certificate” means a certificate evidencing an interest in the payments to be made under the Residual Bond after payment in full of all outstanding Bonds secured thereby.
(6) “Residual Bond” means a Bond evidencing the Residual Interest.
(6A) “Residual Bond Purchase Agreement” means a contract, as authorized under § 7-1831.03 , between the Corporation and the Fund, under which the Fund sells to the Corporation all or a portion of the Fund’s right, title, and interest in and to the Residual Bond, including all the moneys, and any interest thereon, payable to or received by the Fund thereunder, in exchange for a cash payment from the net proceeds of the sale of the Bonds (other than the Residual Bond) and the Remainder Certificate, if any.
(7) “Residual Interest” means that portion of any payments received by the Corporation under the Master Settlement Agreement which is not annually required to:
  (A) Defease certain indebtedness of the District pursuant to the provisions of the Purchase Agreement;
  (B) Repay the holders of the Bonds (other than the Residual Bond);
  (C) Establish, maintain, or replenish any reserve funds created in connection with the issuance of the Bonds (other than the Residual Bond);
  (D) Pay any other obligations of the Corporation (other than the Residual Bond) incurred in connection with the issuance of the Bonds; or
  (E) Pay the actual, reasonable, and necessary expenses of the Corporation.
D.C. Code § 7-1141.06a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11C / § 7-1141.06a
§ 7-1141.06a. Superior Court mental health urgent care clinic.
Status: in_force

(a) By October 1, 2024, the Department shall contract with a non-governmental organization for the purpose of establishing and operating a mental-health urgent-care clinic in Fiscal Years 2025 and 2026. The clinic shall be located within the Moultrie Courthouse, at 500 Indiana Avenue, NW, location of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
(b) To qualify, the non-governmental organization shall:
  (1) Have experience operating a mental health urgent care clinic within the Superior Court that provides behavioral health and substance use disorder services to individuals;
  (2) Possess no less than 2 years of experience in establishing and managing free-standing mental health clinics;
  (3) Be certified by the Department to provide mental health rehabilitation services;
  (4) Have previously been awarded a contract by a local, state, or federal agency to conduct mental health and substance abuse assessments and treatment, conduct housing need assessments and referrals, and deliver brief therapeutic interventions for individuals within the justice system;
  (5) Possess no fewer than 3 years of experience working with individuals with behavioral health needs involved in the legal system, including the ability to collaborate with Superior Court personnel, criminal justice agencies, and community-based providers;
  (6) Possess expertise in providing comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services to diverse populations;
  (7) Possess knowledge of local laws and regulations related to mental health crisis support and hospitalization; and
  (8) Possess a commitment to person-centered care and evidence-based practices in mental health and substance abuse disorder treatment.
(c) The mental health urgent care clinic established by this section shall:
  (1) Employ an evidence-based or evidence-informed care management model that provides individualized support and referrals to resources;
  (2) Ensure that one or more staff members are qualified to respond to a petition to conduct an emergency evaluation and observation when there is concern that an individual poses a significant risk to themselves or others due to a severe mental health condition. A staff member is qualified to conduct an emergency evaluation and observation if the staff member is certified by the Department as an Officer Agent or otherwise permitted by law to conduct an emergency evaluation and observation;
  (3) Maintain staffing sufficient to provide services to no fewer than 600 individuals;
  (4) Conduct assessments, diagnose mental health and co-occurring disorders, and conduct substance abuse screenings;
  (5) Maintain an electronic health record system that collects uniform information that meets at least the following criteria:
    (A) Maintains and keeps track of an individual's health history;
    (B) Provides a method for clinic communication and treatment planning among providers and practitioners serving individuals visiting the clinic;
    (C) Serves as a legal document describing healthcare services provided; and
    (D) Serves as a source of data for the behavioral health services and outcomes that are rendered;
  (6) Provide care coordination and intervention management services for high utilizers of the District's behavioral health and justice system;
  (7) Provide evaluations for juveniles who are court-ordered for emergency evaluation;
  (8) Conduct housing assessments;
  (9) Provide immediate mental health clinical interventions, as required;
  (10) Coordinate with organizations certified by the Department to provide behavioral health services, if necessary; and
  (11) Refer individuals to community-based treatment and resources.
D.C. Code § 7-2371.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23D / § 7-2371.06
§ 7-2371.06. Appropriations.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1721.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 17 / § 7-1721.06
§ 7-1721.06. Prohibited sellers.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, no tobacco product shall be sold to individual customers from mobile vending motor vehicles and trailers that sell retail food products ready for immediate consumption.
(b) Cigarettes may be sold at hotdog stands and construction site food wagons by vendors who are licensed pursuant to § 47-2404 .
(c) No single cigar containing reconstituted tobacco products shall be sold to individual customers at convenience stores and gas stations.
(d) Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-771.10a — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7D / § 7-771.10a
§ 7-771.10a. Unspent local funds.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2509.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 25 / § 7-2509.10
§ 7-2509.10. Penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, a person convicted of a violation of a provision of this subchapter, or rules or regulations issued under the authority of this subchapter, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 , or imprisoned for not more than 180 days.
  (2) Civil fines, penalties, and fees may be imposed as alternative sanctions for any infraction of the provisions of this subchapter, or any rules or regulations issued under the authority of this subchapter.
(b) All prosecutions for violations of this subchapter shall be brought in the name of the District of Columbia and prosecuted by the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia.
D.C. Code § 7-1305.11 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1305.11
§ 7-1305.11. Performance of labor.
Status: in_force

(a) No person shall be compelled to perform labor which involves the operation, support, or maintenance of the facility or for which the facility is under contract with an outside organization. Privileges or release from the facility shall not be conditional upon the performance of such labor. The Mayor shall promulgate rules and regulations governing compensation of persons who volunteer to perform such labor, which rules and regulations shall be consistent with United States Department of Labor regulations governing employment of patient workers in hospitals and institutions at subminimum wages.
(b) A person may be required to perform habilitative tasks which do not involve the operation, support or maintenance of the facility if those tasks are an integrated part of the person’s habilitation plan and supervised by a qualified intellectual disability professional designated by the Director.
(c) A person may be required to perform tasks of a housekeeping nature for his or her own person only.
D.C. Code § 7-1202.02 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1202.02
§ 7-1202.02. Form of authorization.
Status: in_force

(a) Any written authorization which authorizes disclosure pursuant to § 7-1202.01 shall:
  (1) Specify the nature of the information to be disclosed, the type of persons authorized to disclose such information, to whom the information may be disclosed and the specific purposes for which the information may be used both at the time of the disclosure and at any time in the future;
  (2) Advise the client of his right to inspect his record of mental health information;
  (3) State that the consent is subject to revocation, except where an authorization is executed in connection with a client’s obtaining a life or noncancellable or guaranteed renewable health insurance policy, in which case the authorization shall be specific as to its expiration date which shall not exceed 2 years from the date of the policy; or where an authorization is executed in connection with the client’s obtaining any other form of health insurance in which case the authorization shall be specific as to its expiration date which shall not exceed 1 year from the date of the policy;
  (4) Be signed by the person or persons authorizing the disclosure; and
  (5) Contain the date upon which the authorization was signed and the date on which the authorization will expire, which shall be no longer than 365 days from the date of authorization.
(b) Repealed.
(c) A copy of such authorization shall:
  (1) Be provided to the client and the person authorizing the disclosure;
  (2) Accompany all such disclosures; and
  (3) Be included in the client’s record of mental health information.
D.C. Code § 7-743.05 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-743.05
§ 7-743.05. Advisory Committee on Physician Assistants.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-223 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-223
§ 7-223. Persons required to furnish information.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1671.08c — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 16B / § 7-1671.08c
§ 7-1671.08c. Equity, grants, and loans to social equity applicants and medical cannabis certified business enterprises.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1101 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11 / § 7-1101
§ 7-1101. Authority to enter into Compact.
Status: in_force

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized to enter into and execute on behalf of the District of Columbia an agreement with any state or states legally joining therein in the form substantially as set forth in this section.
THE INTERSTATE COMPACT ON MENTAL HEALTH
I Purpose and Findings The party states find that the proper and expeditious treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient can be facilitated by cooperative action, to the benefit of the patients, their families, and society as a whole. Further, the party states find that the necessity of and desirability for furnishing such care and treatment bears no primary relation to the residence or citizenship of the patient but that, on the contrary, the controlling factors of community safety and humanitarianism require that facilities and services be made available for all who are in need of them. Consequently, it is the purpose of this compact and of the party states to provide the necessary legal basis for the institutionalization or other appropriate care and treatment of the mentally ill and mentally deficient under a system that recognizes the paramount importance of patient welfare and to establish the responsibilities of the party states in terms of such welfare.
II DEFINITIONS As used in this compact:
  (a) “Sending state” shall mean a party state from which a patient is transported pursuant to the provisions of the compact or from which it is contemplated that a patient may be so sent.
  (b) “Receiving state” shall mean a party state to which a patient is transported pursuant to the provisions of the compact or to which it is contemplated that a patient may be so sent.
  (c) “Institution” shall mean any hospital or other facility maintained by a party state or political subdivision thereof for the care and treatment of mental illness or mental deficiency, and shall include Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in the District of Columbia.
  (d) “Patient” shall mean any person subject to or eligible as determined by the laws of the sending state, for institutionalization or other care, treatment, or supervision pursuant to the provisions of this compact.
  (e) “After-care” shall mean care, treatment and services provided a patient, as defined herein, on convalescent status or conditional release.
  (f) “Mental illness” shall mean mental disease to such extent that a person so afflicted requires care and treatment for his own welfare, or the welfare of others, or of the community.
  (g) “Mental deficiency” shall mean mental deficiency as defined by appropriate clinical authorities to such extent that a person so afflicted is incapable of managing himself and his affairs, but shall not include mental illness as defined herein.
  (h) “State” shall mean any state, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
III ELIGIBILITY AND PLACEMENT OF PATIENTS (a) Whenever a person physically present in any party state shall be in need of institutionalization by reason of mental illness or mental deficiency, he shall be eligible for care and treatment in an institution in that state irrespective of his residence, settlement or citizenship qualifications.
  (b) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this article to the contrary notwithstanding, any patient may be transferred to an institution in another state whenever there are factors based upon clinical determinations indicating that the care and treatment of said patient would be facilitated or improved thereby. Any such institutionalization may be for the entire period of care and treatment or for any portion or portions thereof. The factors referred to in this paragraph shall include the patient’s full record with due regard for the location of the patient’s family, character of the illness and probable duration thereof, and such other factors as shall be considered appropriate.
  (c) No state shall be obliged to receive any patient pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (b) of this article unless the sending state has given advance notice of its intention to send the patient; furnished all available medical and other pertinent records concerning the patient; given the qualified medical or other appropriate clinical authorities of the receiving state an opportunity to examine the patient if said authorities so wish; and unless the receiving state shall agree to accept the patient.
  (d) In the event that the laws of the receiving state establish a system of priorities for the admission of patients, an interstate patient under this compact shall receive the same priority as a local patient and shall be taken in the same order and at the same time that he would be taken if he were a local patient.
  (e) Pursuant to this compact, the determination as to the suitable place of institutionalization for a patient may be reviewed at any time and such further transfer of the patient may be made as seems likely to be in the best interest of the patient.
IV AFTER-CARE OR SUPERVISION IN THE RECEIVING STATE (a) Whenever, pursuant to the laws of the state in which a patient is physically present, it shall be determined that the patient should receive after-care or supervision, such care or supervision may be provided in a receiving state. If the medical or other appropriate clinical authorities having responsibility for the care and treatment of the patient in the sending state shall have reason to believe that after-care in another state would be in the best interest of the patient and would not jeopardize the public safety, they shall request the appropriate authorities in the receiving state to investigate the desirability of affording the patient such after-care in said receiving state, and such investigation shall be made with all reasonable speed. The request for investigation shall be accompanied by complete information concerning the patient’s intended place of residence and the identity of the person in whose charge it is proposed to place the patient, the complete medical history of the patient, and such other documents as may be pertinent.
  (b) If the medical or other appropriate clinical authorities having responsibility for the care and treatment of the patient in the sending state and the appropriate authorities in the receiving state find that the best interest of the patient would be served thereby, and if the public safety would not be jeopardized thereby, the patient may receive after-care or supervision in the receiving state.
  (c) In supervising, treating, or caring for a patient on after-care pursuant to the terms of this article, a receiving state shall employ the same standards of visitation, examination, care, and treatment that it employs for similar local patients.
V ESCAPE OF DANGEROUS OR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PATIENTS Whenever a dangerous or potentially dangerous patient escapes from an institution in any party state, that state shall promptly notify all appropriate authorities within and without the jurisdiction of the escape in a manner reasonably calculated to facilitate the speedy apprehension of the escapee. Immediately upon the apprehension and identification of any such dangerous or potentially dangerous patient, he shall be detained in the state where found pending disposition in accordance with law.
VI TRANSPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH PARTY STATES The duly accredited officers of any state party to this compact, upon the establishment of their authority and the identity of the patient, shall be permitted to transport any patient being moved pursuant to this compact through any and all states party to this compact, without interference.
VII PAYMENT OF COSTS (a) No person shall be deemed a patient of more than one institution at any given time. Completion of transfer of any patient to an institution in a receiving state shall have the effect of making the person a patient of the institution in the receiving state.
  (b) The sending state shall pay all costs of and incidental to the transportation of any patient pursuant to this compact, but any two or more party states may, by making a specific agreement for that purpose, arrange for a different allocation of costs as among themselves.
  (c) No provision of this compact shall be construed to alter or affect any internal relationships among the departments, agencies and officers of and in the government of a party state, or between a party state and its subdivisions, as to the payment of costs, or responsibilities therefor.
  (d) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to prevent any party state or subdivision thereof from asserting any right against any person, agency or other entity in regard to costs for which such party state or subdivision thereof may be responsible pursuant to any provision of this compact.
  (e) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to invalidate any reciprocal agreement between a party state and a non-party state relating to institutionalization, care or treatment of the mentally ill or mentally deficient, or any statutory authority pursuant to which such agreements may be made.
VIII GUARDIANS (a) Nothing in this compact shall be construed to abridge, diminish, or in any way impair the rights, duties, and responsibilities of any patient’s guardian on his own behalf or in respect of any patient for which he may serve, except that where the transfer of any patient to another jurisdiction makes advisable the appointment of a supplemental or substitute guardian, any court of competent jurisdiction in the receiving state may make such supplemental or substitute appointment and the court which appointed the previous guardian shall upon being duly advised of the new appointment, and upon the satisfactory completion of such accounting and other acts as such court may by law require, relieve the previous guardian of power and responsibility to whatever extent shall be appropriate in the circumstances; provided, however, that in the case of any patient having settlement in the sending state, the court of competent jurisdiction in the sending state shall have the sole discretion to relieve a guardian appointed by it or continue his power and responsibility, whichever it shall deem advisable. The court in the receiving state may, in its discretion, confirm or reappoint the person or persons previously serving as guardian in the sending state in lieu of making a supplemental or substitute appointment.
  (b) The term “guardian” as used in paragraph (a) of this article shall include any guardian, trustee, legal committee, conservator, or other person or agency however denominated who is charged by law with power to act for or responsibility for the person or property of a patient.
IX INAPPLICABILITY OF COMPACT TO PERSONS SUBJECT TO PENAL SENTENCE; POLICY AGAINST PLACEMENT OF PATIENTS IN PRISONS OR JAILS (a) No provision of this compact except Article V shall apply to any person institutionalized while under sentence in a penal or correctional institution or while subject to trial on a criminal charge, or whose institutionalization is due to the commission of an offense for which, in the absence of mental illness or mental deficiency, said person would be subject to incarceration in a penal or correctional institution.
  (b) To every extent possible, it shall be the policy of states party to this compact that no patient shall be placed or detained in any prison, jail or lockup, but such patient shall, with all expedition, be taken to a suitable institutional facility for mental illness or mental deficiency.
X COMPACT ADMINISTRATORS (a) Each party state shall appoint a “compact administrator” who, on behalf of his state, shall act as general coordinator of activities under the compact in his state and who shall receive copies of all reports, correspondence, and other documents relating to any patient processed under the compact by his state either in the capacity of sending or receiving state. The compact administrator or his duly designated representative shall be the official with whom other party states shall deal in any matter relating to the compact or any patient processed thereunder.
  (b) The compact administrators of the respective party states shall have power to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations to carry out more effectively the terms and provisions of this compact.
XI SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENTS The duly constituted administrative authorities of any two or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements for the provision of any service or facility or for the maintenance of any institution on a joint or cooperative basis whenever the states concerned shall find that such agreements will improve services, facilities, or institutional care and treatment in the fields of mental illness or mental deficiency. No such supplementary agreement shall be construed so as to relieve any party state of any obligation which it otherwise would have under other provisions of this compact.
XII EFFECTIVE DATE OF COMPACT This compact shall enter into full force and effect as to any state when enacted by it into law and such state shall thereafter be a party thereto with any and all states legally joining therein.
XIII WITHDRAWAL FROM COMPACT (a) A state party to this compact may withdraw therefrom by enacting a statute repealing the same. Such withdrawal shall take effect one year after notice thereof has been communicated officially and in writing to the governors and compact administrators of all other party states. However, the withdrawal of any state shall not change the status of any patient who has been sent to said state or sent out of said state pursuant to the provisions of this compact.
  (b) Withdrawal from any agreement permitted by Article XII(b) as to costs or from any supplementary agreement made pursuant to Article XI shall be in accordance with the terms of such agreement.
XIV CONSTRUCTION AND SEVERABILITY This compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this compact shall be severable and if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision of this compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any party state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any state party thereto, the compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining states and in full force and effect as to the state affected as to all severable matters.
D.C. Code § 7-741.03 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7A / § 7-741.03
§ 7-741.03. Exemptions.
Status: in_force

(a) The following places shall be exempt from the provisions of this subchapter:
  (1) A retail store 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; provided, that it does not share space with any other establishment;
  (2) A tobacco bar;
  (3) An outdoor area of a restaurant, tavern, club, brew pub, or nightclub;
  (4) A hotel room or motel room rented to one or more guests;
  (5) A medical treatment, research, or nonprofit institution where the activity of smoking is conducted for the purpose of medical research or is an integral part of a smoking cessation program; and
  (6) Theatrical productions.
(b) A hotel licensed under § 25-113 shall be exempt from the provisions of this part once a year for one day for the purposes of hosting a special event which permits cigar smoking; provided, that the hotel shall:
  (1) Notify the Department of Health in writing in advance of the event;
  (2) Pay a fee of $2,500 to be remitted to the Regulatory Enforcement Fund as established under § 7-732 [repealed]; and
  (3) Permit employees to opt out of working the special event with no penalty.
D.C. Code § 7-1803.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 18 / § 7-1803.04
§ 7-1803.04. Agent for service of process.
Status: in_force

(a) (1) Any non-resident or foreign Non-Participating Manufacturer that has not registered to do business in the District as a foreign corporation or business entity shall, prior to having its Brand Families included or retained in the Directory, appoint and continually engage without interruption the services of an agent in the District to act as agent for the service of process on whom all process, and any action or proceeding against it concerning or arising out of the enforcement of this part or part A of this subchapter , may be served in any manner authorized by law and which shall constitute legal and valid service of process on the Non-Participating Manufacturer.
  (2) The Non-Participating Manufacturer shall provide the name, address, phone number, and proof of the appointment and availability of the agent to, and to the satisfaction of, the Mayor.
(b) (1) The Non-Participating Manufacturer shall provide notice to the Mayor 30 calendar days prior to termination of the authority of an agent and shall further provide proof, to the satisfaction of the Mayor, of the appointment of a new agent no less than 5 calendar days prior to the termination of an existing agent appointment.
  (2) If an agent terminates an agency appointment, the Non-Participating Manufacturer shall notify the Mayor of the termination within 5 calendar days and shall include proof, to the satisfaction of the Mayor, of the appointment of a new agent.
D.C. Code § 7-205.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 2 / § 7-205.01
§ 7-205.01. Social Security numbers.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2331 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23A / § 7-2331
§ 7-2331. Findings.
Status: in_force

(a) The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, resulting in grievous loss of life and the concomitant disruption of our national regional services, highlight the need for, and value of, intergovernmental planning and programming at the state level, including the District of Columbia.
(b) Mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact and the District of Columbia is also needed for the management of any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of a state, or the Mayor of the District of Columbia, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources shortages, community disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack.
(c) There is also a need for mutual assistance between the states and the District of Columbia fostering 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 subdivisions thereof during emergencies, such actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods.
(d) The United States Congress issued the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Joint Resolution (Pub. L. No. 104-321) on October 19, 1996, authorizing states, including the District of Columbia, to join in the EMAC.
D.C. Code § 7-1521.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 15 / § 7-1521.08
§ 7-1521.08. Construction.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-1131.10 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 11B / § 7-1131.10
§ 7-1131.10. Partnership Council.
Status: in_force

(a) The Director shall appoint and convene a Partnership Council, consisting of between 15 and 25 people, to advise the Director, upon his or her request, with respect to departmental matters.
(b) The membership of the Partnership Council shall represent the range of interests and perspectives held by adults and children, youth, and their families, as well as the various geographic areas of the District, and shall include at least one person from each ward of the District and 2 representatives from labor unions for departmental workers. At least 51% of the members of the Partnership Council shall be consumers of mental health services or their family members. No members of the Partnership Council shall receive remuneration for their service.
D.C. Code § 7-1304.07 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1304.07
§ 7-1304.07. Standard of proof.
Status: in_force

(a) Repealed.
(b) If the petition was filed pursuant to § 7-1303.04(b-1) , the District shall present clear and convincing evidence that shows that the person whose commitment is sought is likely to cause injury to others as a result of an intellectual disability if allowed to remain at liberty.
D.C. Code § 7-1203.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 12 / § 7-1203.01
§ 7-1203.01. Disclosures within a mental health facility or to participating providers.
Status: in_force

(a) Mental health information may be disclosed to other individuals employed at the individual mental health facility when and to the extent necessary to facilitate the delivery of professional services to the client.
(b) Subject to subsection (c) of this section, a health care provider or its third-party payor may disclose mental health information to another health care provider in connection with the diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, case management, conduct of quality assessment and improvement activities, or rehabilitation of a health or mental disorder or disease when and to the extent necessary to facilitate the delivery of health or professional services to the client. The authority to disclose mental health information under this subsection does not include the authority to disclose progress notes.
(c) (1) A health care provider shall notify its clients, in plain language in writing, upon registration:
    (A) Whether the health care provider or its third-party payor privacy practices permit the disclosure of mental health information pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; and
    (B) That a client may request that his or her mental health information not be disclosed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.
  (2) If a client requests that his or her mental health information not be disclosed, the health care provider or its third-party payor shall not disclose the client’s mental health information pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; provided, that nothing contained in this subsection shall prohibit a health care provider from disclosing mental health information pursuant to another provision of this chapter or pursuant to Chapter 2B of this title [ § 7-241 et seq.].
(d) For the purposes of this section, the term:
  (1) “Health care provider” means:
    (A) A person who is licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized under Chapter 12 of Title 3 [ §  3-1201.01 et seq.] to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a health occupation or in an approved education or training program;
    (B) A person licensed or permitted to practice a health occupation under the laws of another state; or
    (C) A facility where health or mental health services are provided to patients or recipients, including a hospital, clinic, office, nursing home, infirmary, health maintenance organization, medical laboratory, provider, as defined by § 7-1131.02(27) , or similar entity licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized by the District of Columbia.
  (2) “Progress notes” means notes recorded, in any medium, by a health care provider who is a mental health professional documenting or analyzing the contents of conversation during a private counseling session or a group, joint, or family counseling session and that are separated from the rest of the individual’s medical record. The term “progress notes” excludes medication prescription and monitoring, counseling session start and stop times, the modalities and frequencies of treatment furnished, results of clinical tests, and any summary of the following items: diagnosis, functional status, the treatment plan, symptoms, prognosis, and progress to date.
D.C. Code § 7-2021.01 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 20 / § 7-2021.01
§ 7-2021.01. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this subchapter , the term:
(a) (1) "Child development facility" means a center, home, or other structure that provides care and other services, supervision, and guidance for children, infants, and toddlers on a regular basis, regardless of its designated name.  The term "child development facility" does not include a public or private elementary or secondary school engaged in legally required educational and related functions or a pre-kindergarten education program licensed pursuant to Chapter 2A of Title 38 .
  (2) "Infant" means an individual younger than 12 months of age.
  (3) "Operator" means an individual or entity that owns or is responsible for the operations of a child development facility.
  (4) "OSSE" means the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, established by § 38-2601 .
  (5) "Subsidized child care" means part-time or full-time child care services, subsidized in whole or in part to eligible families pursuant to local and federal law, including §§ 4-404.01 and 4-405 , and the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, approved November 19, 2014 (128 Stat. 1971; 42 U.S.C. § 9858, note).
  (6) "Toddler" means an individual older than 12 months but younger than 36 months of age.
D.C. Code § 7-2381.04 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 23D / § 7-2381.04
§ 7-2381.04. Training required.
Status: in_force

(a) An employee or agent of an authorized entity may not provide or administer an epinephrine auto-injector under this subchapter unless he or she completes an anaphylaxis training program. The training program shall be conducted by:
  (1) A nationally recognized organization experienced in training laypersons in emergency health treatment; or
  (2) An entity or individual approved by the Department.
(b) The training program may be conducted online or in person and shall include instruction on:
  (1) The recognition of signs and symptoms of severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis;
  (2) Standards and procedures for the storage and administration of an epinephrine auto-injector; and
  (3) Post-administration emergency medical follow-up procedures.
(c) An organization, individual, or entity that conducts the training program shall issue a certificate, on a form developed by the Department, to each person who successfully completes the training program.
D.C. Code § 7-881.08 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 8F / § 7-881.08
§ 7-881.08. Application.
Status: repealed

Repealed.
D.C. Code § 7-2147 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 21C / § 7-2147
§ 7-2147. Applicability.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter shall apply upon the date of inclusion of its fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan.
(b) The Chief Financial Officer shall certify the date of the inclusion of the fiscal effect in an approved budget and financial plan and provide notice to the Budget Director of the Council of the certification.
(c) (1) The Budget Director shall cause the notice of the certification to be published in the District of Columbia Register.
  (2) The date of publication of the notice of the certification shall not affect the applicability of this chapter .
D.C. Code § 7-761.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 7C / § 7-761.06
§ 7-761.06. Appointment and authority of the Director.
Status: in_force

(a) The Department shall be headed by a Director who shall report to the Mayor. The Mayor shall appoint the Director with the advice and consent of the Council pursuant to § 1-523.01(a) .
(b) The Director shall:
  (1) Hold at least a master’s degree or its equivalent in human services, clinical services, human service management, public administration, social work, or a related field;
  (2) Have relevant work experience; and
  (3) Possess:
    (A) Demonstrated knowledge of current best-practice policies, programs, services, and supports for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities;
    (B) Familiarity with local and federal funding streams supporting services to people with intellectual or developmental disabilities; and
    (C) Experience managing human service programs.
(c) The Director shall serve as the administrative chief of the Department, and may organize personnel, re-delegate authority, develop programs, and take any other action, including issuing grants and stipends, consistent with appropriations, as warranted to accomplish the purpose and mission of the Department or to satisfy the requirements of applicable court orders.
(d) The Mayor shall delegate to the Director all personnel authority, including full authority to hire, retain, and terminate personnel, and the Director shall exercise that personnel authority independent of the Office of Personnel and consistent with applicable court orders.
(e) The Mayor shall delegate to the Director all procurement authority, including contracting and contracting oversight, and the Director shall exercise that procurement authority independent of the Office of Contracting and Procurement and consistent with applicable court orders.
(f) The Mayor shall fix the compensation of the Director pursuant to subchapter X-A of Chapter 6 of Title 1 [§§ 1-610.51 — 1-610.63 ].
D.C. Code § 7-2851 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 28A / § 7-2851
§ 7-2851. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) “Department of Health” means the District of Columbia Department of Health.
(2) “Engineered sharps injury protection” means a physical attribute built into a sharp that effectively reduces the risk of an exposure incident by a mechanism such as a barrier creation, blunting, encapsulation, withdrawal, retraction, destruction, or other effective mechanisms.
(3) “Exposure incident” means contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that results from a sharp injury.
(4) “Person” means any individual, corporation, or other such entity that sells, distributes, uses, or possesses sharps.
(5) “Sharp” means any medical device that is or contains a needle.
(6) “Sharps injury” means any injury caused by a sharp, including cuts, abrasions, or needlesticks.
D.C. Code § 7-1304.06 — DC Code / Title 7 / Chapter 13 / § 7-1304.06
§ 7-1304.06. Hearings conducted in informal manner; procedural rights at hearing.
Status: in_force

Except as provided in § 7-1304.06a , hearings shall be conducted in as informal a manner as may be consistent with orderly procedure. Persons who have been committed, or whose commitment is sought pursuant to § 7-1303.04(b-1) , have the right to be present during hearings and to testify, but shall not be compelled to testify, and shall be so advised by the Court. They shall have the right to call witnesses and present evidence, and to cross-examine opposing witnesses. The presence of the person may be waived only if the Court finds that the person has knowingly and voluntarily waived his or her right to be present, or if the Court determines that the person is unable to be present by virtue of his or her physical disability.