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DC Code § 8-603 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6 - Privies|§ 8-603. Regulation of waste disposal systems

The Council of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to make, and the Mayor of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized and empowered to enforce, any such regulations as the Council deems necessary to regulate the design, construction, and maintenance of any system of disposal of human excreta, and the handling, storage, treatment, and disposal of human body wastes.  (Apr. 22, 1940, 54 Stat. 155, ch. 131, § 4.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 6-603. 1973 Ed., § 6-703. New Implementing Regulations New implementing regulations: Pursuant to this section, the following new regulations were adopted in 1982: The “District of Columbia Solid Waste Disposal Fee Act of 1982” (D.C. Law 4-135, August 14, 1982, 29 DCR 2751). Change in Government This section originated at a time when local government powers were delegated to a Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia (see Acts Relating to the Establishment of the District of Columbia and its Various Forms of Governmental Organization in Volume 1). Section 402(143) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 (see Reorganization Plans in Volume 1) transferred all of the functions of the Board of Commissioners under this section to the District of Columbia Council, subject to the right of the Commissioner as provided in § 406 of the Plan. The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, 87 Stat. 818, § 711 ( D.C. Code, § 1-207.11), abolished the District of Columbia Council and the Office of Commissioner of the District of Columbia. These branches of government were replaced by the Council of the District of Columbia and the Office of Mayor of the District of Columbia, respectively. Accordingly, and also pursuant to § 714(a) of such Act ( D.C. Code, § 1-207.14(a)), appropriate changes in terminology were made in this section.
DC Code § 8-604 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6 - Privies|§ 8-604. Penalties

Any person who shall violate or aid or abet in violating any of the provisions of this chapter or of the regulations promulgated by the Council of the District of Columbia under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50 or by imprisonment for not exceeding 15 days. Civil fines, penalties, and fees may be imposed as alternative sanctions for any infraction of the provisions of this chapter, or any rules or regulations issued under the authority of this chapter, pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2. Adjudication of any infraction of this chapter shall be pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2.  (Apr. 22, 1940, 54 Stat. 155, ch. 131, § 5; Oct. 5, 1985, D.C. Law 6-42, § 449, 32 DCR 4450.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 6-604. 1973 Ed., § 6-704. Change in Government This section originated at a time when local government powers were delegated to a Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia (see Acts Relating to the Establishment of the District of Columbia and its Various Forms of Governmental Organization in Volume 1). Section 402(143) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 (see Reorganization Plans in Volume 1) transferred all of the functions of the Board of Commissioners under this section to the District of Columbia Council, subject to the right of the Commissioner as provided in § 406 of the Plan. The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, 87 Stat. 818, § 711 ( D.C. Code, § 1-207.11), abolished the District of Columbia Council and the Office of Commissioner of the District of Columbia. These branches of government were replaced by the Council of the District of Columbia and the Office of Mayor of the District of Columbia, respectively. Accordingly, and also pursuant to § 714(a) of such Act ( D.C. Code, § 1-207.14(a)), appropriate changes in terminology were made in this section.
DC Code § 8-651.01 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6B - Urban Forest Preservation|§ 8-651.01. Findings

(a) The urban forest of the District of Columbia, growing on both public and private land, is one of the District’s great natural resources. (b) A healthy, vibrant urban forest provides numerous environmental benefits, including: (1) Heat island effect mitigation and reduced energy use; (2) Better air quality and reduced water pollution; and (3) Quieter and more beautiful neighborhoods. (c) The trees comprising the urban forest have significant aesthetic value, which enhances property values and the quality of life in neighborhoods throughout the District.  (June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-309, § 101, 50 DCR 888.)  Delegation of Authority Delegation of Authority to the Urban Forest Preservation Act of 2002 and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Civil Infractions Act of 1985, see Mayor’s Order 2003-173, December 1, 2003 ( 50 DCR 10619).
DC Code § 8-651.03 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6B - Urban Forest Preservation|§ 8-651.03. Urban Forest Preservation Program

(a)(1) There is hereby established an Urban Forest Preservation Program for the District of Columbia which shall be administered by the Mayor. The Mayor, pursuant to subchapter I of Chapter 5 of Title 2, shall promulgate standards and regulations governing the administration of this program and the protection of trees. (2) The regulations shall allow public utility companies regulated by the Public Service Commission to conduct utility construction, line maintenance, and emergency work within the District’s rights-of-way without a Special Tree removal permit otherwise required by this chapter. (b) The Mayor shall transmit the regulations prescribed in subsection (a) of this section to the Council no later than 270 calendar days following June 12, 2003 for approval or disapproval, by resolution. These regulations and each revision of these regulations shall be transmitted to the Council for a 45-day review period, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and periods of Council recess, and deemed disapproved in the absence of Council action within the 45-day review period. (c) The Mayor shall be responsible for preparing and annually updating a 5-year urban forest report and master plan.  (June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-309, § 103, 50 DCR 888.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 8-651.05. Resolutions Resolution 18-140, the “Urban Forest Preservation Regulations Approval Resolution of 2009”, was approved effective June 2, 2009.
DC Code § 8-651.05 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6B - Urban Forest Preservation|§ 8-651.05. Notification requirements for removal of trees on public space

(a) Unless the tree is a Hazardous Tree, before removing a tree on public space, the Director shall provide not less than 15 days written notice to the affected Advisory Neighborhood Commission, and shall set forth the reason for the proposed removal. (b) Public utility companies shall provide not less than 20 days written notice to the Director or his or her designee prior to performing any work which affects trees on public space, except for permitted utility construction or emergency work conducted by a public utility company regulated by the Public Service Commission, as provided in § 8-651.03(a).  (June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-309, § 105, 50 DCR 888.)
DC Code § 8-651.06 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6B - Urban Forest Preservation|§ 8-651.06. Hazardous Trees

(a) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the Mayor or a property owner from immediately removing a Hazardous Tree. (b) No property owner shall permit a tree or tree part, dead or alive, to stand on his or her property, including the public parking area associated with that property if it is a hazard to the public at-large, or endangers any public improvement or other public facility. (c) If the Mayor identifies a tree hazard as described in subsection (b) of this section, the Mayor shall notify the property owner of the hazardous situation, and shall give the property owner not less than 10 days written notice, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, to eliminate the hazard. (d) Where the District has notified a property owner of a hazard and no action is taken by the property owner to eliminate the hazard, the Mayor may take corrective action to abate the hazard. The Mayor shall then send the property owner a bill for the cost of the abatement action including any administrative costs incurred by the District. If the bill remains unpaid after [60 days], it shall become a tax lien against the property.  (June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-309, § 106, 50 DCR 888.)
DC Code § 8-651.08 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6B - Urban Forest Preservation|§ 8-651.08. Enforcement

Civil fines, penalties, and fees may be imposed as sanctions for any infraction of the provisions of this chapter, or any regulations issued under the authority of this chapter, pursuant to Chapter 18 of Title 2.  (June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-309, § 108, 50 DCR 888.)
DC Code § 8-671.01 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.01. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Activity and use limitations” means restrictions or obligations created under this chapter with respect to real property. (2) “Common-interest community” means a condominium, cooperative, or other real property with respect to which a person, by virtue of the person’s ownership of a parcel of real property, is obligated to pay property taxes or insurance premiums, or for maintenance, or improvement of other real property described in a recorded covenant that creates the common-interest community. (3) “Environmental agency” means the District of Columbia’s Environment Health Administration, or its successor, or a federal agency that determines or approves the environmental response project pursuant to which the environmental covenant is created. (4) “Environmental covenant” means a servitude arising under an environmental response project that imposes activity and use limitations. (5) “Environmental response project” means a plan or work performed for environmental remediation of real property and conducted: (A) Under a District or federal program governing environmental remediation of real property, including a cleanup action plan under § 8-633.03; (B) Incident to closure of a solid or hazardous waste management unit, if the closure is conducted with approval of an agency; or (C) Under a voluntary cleanup program under subchapter III of Chapter 6A of this title. (6) “Holder” means the grantee of an environmental covenant as specified in § 8-671.02(a). (7) “Person” means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. (8) “Record” means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (9) “State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 101, 53 DCR 1652.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 8-671.11. Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 1 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.02 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.02. Nature of rights; subordination of interests

(a) Any person, including a person that owns an interest in the real property, the environmental agency, or a municipality or any other unit of local government, may be a holder. An environmental covenant may identify more than one holder. The interest of a holder is an interest in real property. (b) A right of an environmental agency under this chapter or under an environmental covenant, other than a right as a holder, is not an interest in real property. (c) An environmental agency is bound by any obligation it assumes in an environmental covenant, but an environmental agency does not assume obligations merely by signing an environmental covenant. Any other person that signs an environmental covenant is bound by the obligations the person assumes in the covenant, but signing the covenant does not change obligations, rights, or protections granted or imposed under law other than this chapter except as provided in the covenant. (d) The following rules apply to interests in real property in existence at the time an environmental covenant is created or amended: (1) An interest that has priority under other law is not affected by an environmental covenant unless the person that owns the interest subordinates that interest to the covenant. (2) This chapter does not require a person that owns a prior interest to subordinate that interest to an environmental covenant or to agree to be bound by the covenant. (3) A subordination agreement may be contained in an environmental covenant covering real property or in a separate record. If the environmental covenant covers commonly owned property in a common-interest community, the record may be signed by any person authorized by the governing board of the owners’ association. (4) An agreement by a person to subordinate a prior interest to an environmental covenant affects the priority of that person’s interest but does not by itself impose any affirmative obligation on the person with respect to the environmental covenant. (e) The Environmental Health Administration, or it successor, shall have regulatory authority over real property transfers from the federal government or a federal agency to a non-federal owner.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 102, 53 DCR 1652.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 8-671.01. Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 2 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.03 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.03. Contents of environmental covenant

(a) An environmental covenant must: (1) State that the instrument is an environmental covenant executed pursuant to this chapter; (2) Contain a legally sufficient description of the real property subject to the covenant; (3) Describe the activity and use limitations on the real property; (4) Identify every holder; (5) Be signed by the environmental agency, every holder, and, unless waived by the environmental agency, every owner of the fee simple of the real property subject to the covenant; and (6) Identify the name and location of any administrative record for the environmental response project reflected in the environmental covenant. (b) In addition to the information required by subsection (a) of this section, an environmental covenant may contain other information, restrictions, and requirements agreed to by the persons who signed it, including any: (1) Requirements for notice following transfer of a specified interest in, or concerning proposed changes in use of, applications for building permits for, or proposals for any site work affecting the contamination on, the property subject to the covenant; (2) Requirements for periodic reporting describing compliance with the covenant; (3) Rights of access to the property granted in connection with implementation or enforcement of the covenant; (4) A brief narrative description of the contamination and remedy, including the contaminants of concern, the pathways of exposure, limits on exposure, and the location and extent of the contamination; (5) Limitation on amendment or termination of the covenant in addition to those contained in §§ 8-671.08 and 8-671.09; and (6) Rights of the holder in addition to its right to enforce the covenant pursuant to § 8-671.10. (c) In addition to other conditions for its approval of an environmental covenant, the environmental agency may require those persons specified by the environmental agency who have interests in the real property to sign the covenant.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 103, 53 DCR 1652.)  Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 3 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.04 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.04. Validity; effect on other instruments

(a) An environmental covenant that complies with this chapter runs with the land. (b) An environmental covenant that is otherwise effective is valid and enforceable even if: (1) It is not appurtenant to an interest in real property; (2) It can be or has been assigned to a person other than the original holder; (3) It is not of a character that has been recognized traditionally at common law; (4) It imposes a negative burden; (5) It imposes an affirmative obligation on a person having an interest in the real property or on the holder; (6) The benefit or burden does not touch or concern real property; (7) There is no privity of estate or contract; (8) The holder dies, ceases to exist, resigns, or is replaced; or (9) The owner of an interest subject to the environmental covenant and the holder are the same person. (c) An instrument that creates restrictions or obligations with respect to real property that would qualify as activity and use limitations except for the fact that the instrument was recorded before May 12, 2006, is not invalid or unenforceable because of any of the limitations on enforcement of interests described in subsection (b) of this section or because it was identified as an easement, servitude, deed restriction, or other interest. This chapter does not apply in any other respect to such an instrument. (d) This chapter does not invalidate or render unenforceable any interest, whether designated as an environmental covenant or other interest, that is otherwise enforceable under the law of the District of Columbia.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 104, 53 DCR 1652.)  Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 4 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.05 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.05. Relationship to other land-use law

This chapter does not authorize a use of real property that is otherwise prohibited by zoning, by law other than this chapter regulating use of real property, or by a recorded instrument that has priority over the environmental covenant. An environmental covenant may prohibit or restrict uses of real property which are authorized by zoning or by law other than this chapter.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 105, 53 DCR 1652.)  Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 5 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.06 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.06. Notice

(a) A copy of an environmental covenant shall be provided by the persons designated by the agency and in the manner required by the environmental agency to: (1) Each person that signed the covenant; (2) Each person holding a recorded interest in the real property subject to the covenant; (3) Each person in possession of the real property subject to the covenant; (4) Each municipality or other unit of local government in which real property subject to the covenant is located; and (5) Any other person the environmental agency requires. (b) The validity of a covenant is not affected by failure to provide a copy of the covenant as required under this section.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 106, 53 DCR 1652.)  Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 6 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.07 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.07. Recording

(a) An environmental covenant and any amendment or termination of the covenant must be recorded with District of Columbia Recorder of Deeds. For purposes of indexing, a holder shall be treated as a grantee. (b) Except as otherwise provided in § 8-671.08(c), an environmental covenant is subject to the laws of the District governing recording and priority of interests in real property.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 107, 53 DCR 1652.)  Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 7 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.
DC Code § 8-671.08 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 8 - Environmental and Animal Control and Protection|Chapter 6C - Uniform Environmental Covenants|§ 8-671.08. Duration; amendment by court action

(a) An environmental covenant is perpetual unless it is: (1) By its terms limited to a specific duration or terminated by the occurrence of a specific event; (2) Terminated by consent pursuant to § 8-671.09; (3) Terminated pursuant to subsection (b) of this section; (4) Terminated by foreclosure of an interest that has priority over the environmental covenant; or (5) Terminated or modified in an eminent domain proceeding, but only if: (A) The environmental agency that signed the covenant is a party to the proceeding; (B) All persons identified in § 8-671.09(a) and (b) are given notice of the pendency of the proceeding; and (C) The court determines, after hearing, that the termination or modification will not adversely affect human health or the environment. (b) If the environmental agency that signed an environmental covenant has determined that the intended benefits of the covenant can no longer be realized, a court, under the doctrine of changed circumstances, in an action in which all persons identified in § 8-671.09(a) and (b) have been given notice, may terminate the covenant or reduce its burden on the real property subject to the covenant. The environmental agency’s determination or its failure to make a determination upon request is subject to review pursuant to Chapter 5 of Title 2. (c) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, an environmental covenant may not be extinguished, limited, or impaired through issuance of a tax deed, foreclosure of a tax lien, or application of the doctrine of adverse possession, prescription, abandonment, waiver, lack of enforcement, or acquiescence, or a similar doctrine.  (May 12, 2006, D.C. Law 16-95, § 108, 53 DCR 1652.)  Section References This section is referenced in § 8-671.03 and § 8-671.07. Editor's Notes Uniform Law: This section is based upon § 8 of the Uniform Environmental Covenants Act.