An Act to amend the Act entitled ""An Act to create a Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,"" approved May 1, 1906, as amended.
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PUBLIC LAW 89-326-NOV. 7, 1965 
[79 STAT. 
November 7, 1965 
[H. R. 1778] 
Public Law 89-326 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to create a Board for the Condemnation of 
Insanitary Buildings in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes'", 
approved May 1, 1906, as amended. 
D.c. 
Insanitary build-
ings, condemna-
tion. 
68 Stat. 884. 
Property assess, 
ment. 
Payment provi-
sions. 
D.C. Code 
5-622. 
Sale of property 
for delinquent 
taxes. 
Service of 
notice; methods. 
D.C. Code. 
5-625. 
Be It enacted hy the Senate arul House of Representative^! of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (d) 
of section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to create a Board for the Con-
demnation of Insanitary Buildings in the District of Columbia, and 
for other purposes", approved May 1, 1906 (34 Stat. 157; title 5, 
chapter 6, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), as amended, is amended by strik-
ing "same manner as general taxes are collected in the District of 
Columbia", and inserting in lieu thereof "manner provided in section 7 
of this Act". 
SEC. 2. (a) Section 7 of said Act, as amended, is amended (1) by 
striking "in the same manner as general taxes are collected in the 
District of Columbia", and inserting in lieu thereof "as provided in 
this section"; and (2) by inserting immediately before the period at 
the end of said section the following: ": Provided further. That the 
taxes authorized to be levied and collected under this Act may be paid 
without interest within sixty days from the date such tax w^as levied. 
Interest of one-half of 1 per centum for each month or part thereof 
shall be charged on all unpaid amounts from the expiration of sixty 
days from the date such tax was levied. 
Any such tax may be paid 
in three equal installments with interest thereon. 
If any such tax or 
part thereof shall remain unpaid after the expiration of two years 
from the date such tax was levied, the property against w-hich said 
tax was levied may be sold for such tax or unpaid portion thereof with 
interest and penalties thereon at the next ensuing annual tax sale in 
the same manner and under the same conditions as property sold for 
delinquent general real estate taxes, if said tax with interest and penal-
ties thereon shall not have been paid in full prior to said sale". 
(b) Ally tax levied pursuant to such Act approved May 1, 1906, 
as amended by the Act approved August 28, 1954, which was levied 
after the effective date of sucli Act of August 28, 1954, and prior to 
the effective date of this section, shall, for the purpose of computing 
interest thereon, be deemed to have been levied as of the effective date 
of this section. 
SEC. 3. Section 10 of such Act, as amended, is amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 10. (a) Any notice required by this Act to be served shall be 
deemed to have been served when served by any of the following 
methods: (a) when forwarded to the last known address of the owner 
as recorded in the real estate assessment records of the District of 
Columbia by registered or certitied mail, with return receipt, and such 
receipt shall consti'tute prima facie evidence of service upon such 
owner if such receipt is signed either by the owner or by a person of 
suitable age and discretion located at such address: Provided. That 
valid service upon the owner shall be deemed effected if such notice 
shall be refused by the owner and not delivered for that reason; or 
(b) when delivered to the person to be notified; or (c) when left at 
the usual residence or |)lace of business of the person to be notified 
with a pei*son of suitable age and discretion then resident or employed 
therein; or (d) if no such residence or place of business can be found 
in the District of Columbia by reasonable search, then if left with any 
person of suitable age and discretion employed at the office of any 
agent of the person to l)e notified, which agent has any authority or 
dutv with reference to the land or tenement to which said notice 
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relates; or (e) if any such notice forwarded by registered or certified 
mail be returned for reasons other than refusal, or if personal service 
of any such notice, as hereinbefore provided, cannot be effected, then 
if published on three consecutive days in a daily newspaper published 
in the District of Columbia; or (f) if by reason of an outstanding 
unrecorded transfer of title the name of the owner in fact cannot be 
ascertained beyond a reasonable doubt, then if served on the owner 
of record in a manner hereinbefore provided. Any notice to a cor-
poration shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been 
served on such corporation if served on the president, secretary, 
treasurer, general manager, or any principal officer of such corpora-
tion in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of notices on 
natural persons holding property in their own right; and notices to a 
foreign corporation shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to 
have been served if served personally on any agent of such corporation, 
or if left with any person of suitable age and discretion residing at the 
usual residence or employed at the usual place of business of such 
agent in the Distridt of Columbia. 
"(b) In case such notice is served by any method other than per-
sonal service, notice shall also be sent to the owner by ordinary mail." 
Approved November 7, 1965. 
Public Law 89-327 
J O I N T R E S O L U T I O N 
November 7, 19 65 
T
<
» .'tuthorizt' the President to i)roelaini the month of .NoveuiKier H
J
^ "Water 
L. 
Conservation Month,". 
Water Conserva-
tion Month. 
Jit-sol red hy the Senate and HovHe of Rej/re-Heritatlves of the United 
Sfiite'S of Ameru-a in Congren-s ai^Heinbled^ That the President ij^ hereby 
uiitlioi-ized and reque,sted to issue a proclamation dftsignating the "p"r<rc°amation. 
month of November, J9t>5 as "Water Conservation Month*' in recogni-
lion of the hnportance of water conservation to the maintenance of 
public health ?md the national economy. 
Approved November 7, 1965.