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DC Code § 9-401.15 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter I - General|§ 9-401.15. Unexpended allotments for street paving made available for succeeding year

When as many streets and entire blocks of streets in any section have been paved as the amount allotted to that section will permit, and there still remains a balance insufficient to pave an entire block of the street provided for pavement upon the schedule, such balance shall remain available and be added to the allotment for that section for the next succeeding year.  (June 6, 1900, 31 Stat. 559, ch. 789.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-624. 1973 Ed., § 7-619.
DC Code § 9-401.16 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter I - General|§ 9-401.16. Limitation on contracts of Mayor

The Mayor of the District of Columbia is prohibited from incurring or contracting liabilities on behalf of the United States in the improvement of streets, avenues, and reservations beyond the amount of appropriations previously made by Congress, and from entering into any contract touching such improvements on behalf of the United States, except in pursuance of appropriations made by Congress.  (R.S., § 1813; June 20, 1874, 18 Stat. 116, ch. 337.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-625. 1973 Ed., § 7-620. 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 401 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 a single Commissioner. 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 § 9-401.17 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter I - General|§ 9-401.17. Contracts for repairs not to exceed 5 years

Contracts for repairs to pavements may be made for periods not exceeding 5 years, and subject to annual appropriation therefor by Congress.  (July 18, 1888, 25 Stat. 319, ch. 676.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-626. 1973 Ed., § 7-621.
DC Code § 9-401.18 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter I - General|§ 9-401.18. Exemptions of abutting property from deposits and assessments

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, owners of property abutting streets, avenues, roads, or alleys to be improved, or to have curbs, gutters, sewers, or sidewalks constructed thereon, shall not be required to make any deposit, nor shall the abutting property be assessed any part of the cost, for the improvement of the streets, avenues, roads, or alleys, or the construction of curbs, gutters, sewers, or sidewalks if the following conditions exist: (1) The abutting property is Class 1 Property; and (2) The abutting Class 1 Property, as evidenced by the most current certificates of tax assessment, is less than 80% of the median assessed value of all Class 1 real property in the District as reported by the Mayor; or (3) The real property is exempt from the real property tax in the District pursuant to § 47-1002; or (4) The Mayor determines that circumstances exist that threaten the health and safety of the public and that improvement of the streets, avenues, roads, and alleys, or the construction of curbs, gutters, sewers, or sidewalks thereon, is necessary to protect the health and safety of the public. (b) The Mayor has sole discretion in the determination of which streets, avenues, roads, and alleys are to be improved, or which streets, avenues, roads, and alleys are to have curbs, gutters, sewers, or sidewalks constructed thereon where the exemption in subsection (a) of this section would be granted to owners of abutting property.  (Sept. 24, 1994, D.C. Law 10-186, § 2, 41 DCR 5225.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-640. Editor's Notes Submission of 5-year plan for improvements: Section 3 of D.C. Law 10-186 provided that within 6 months of September 24, 1994, the Mayor shall submit to the Council a 5-year plan for the improvement of all unimproved streets, avenues, roads, and alleys and the construction of curbs, gutters, sewers, and sidewalks thereon in the District.
DC Code § 9-411.01 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter II - Special Assessments|§ 9-411.01. Special assessments for curbs and gutters levied

When any curb or gutter is laid, or any curb and gutter are laid, on any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia which said curb shall be constructed of concrete, stone, or other permanent type of construction, or which said gutter shall be constructed of concrete, brick, granite block, asphalt on a concrete base, or other permanent type of construction, one-half of the total cost thereof shall be charged against and become a lien upon the property abutting the side of the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, so improved, and assessments therefor shall be levied pro rata according to the linear frontage of said property on the side of the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, so improved; provided, however, that no assessments shall be levied hereunder on account of the replacement of any curb or gutter or curb and gutter of a permanent type of construction. When any gutter shall be constructed, in whole or in part, as an integral portion of a permanent type of roadway of any street, avenue, or road, so much of said roadway as lies within 2 feet of the curb line shall be considered as a gutter for the purposes of this subchapter.  (May 25, 1943, 57 Stat. 83, ch. 98, § 1.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-614. 1973 Ed., § 7-612a.
DC Code § 9-411.02 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter II - Special Assessments|§ 9-411.02. Special assessments for curbs and gutters levied — Computation

The total assessment levied hereunder against any abutting property shall not exceed the number of square feet of area of said property multiplied by 1 per centum of the linear front-foot assessment and shall not exceed 10 per centum of the value of the said abutting property, exclusive of improvements thereon, as assessed for the purpose of taxation at the time of the laying of the curb or gutter or curb and gutter for which said assessment is levied. In computing assessments hereunder against unsubdivided land according to the assessed valuation, there shall be excluded from the computation land lying back more than 100 feet from the street, avenue, or road being improved where the depth is even, and where the depth is uneven the average depth shall be taken in computation but not to exceed more than 100 feet.  (May 25, 1943, 57 Stat. 83, ch. 98, § 2.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-615. 1973 Ed., § 7-612b.
DC Code § 9-411.03 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter II - Special Assessments|§ 9-411.03. Special assessments for curbs and gutters levied — Property abutting 2 or more streets, avenues, or roads

When any property abuts 2 or more streets, avenues, or roads, the assessments against said property levied hereunder shall not exceed in the aggregate, together with any legal assessments heretofore levied and paid for paving, curbing, and guttering of or on said streets, avenues, or roads, under the authority of §§ 9-401.09, 9-401.10, relating to assessments for the paving of streets, avenues, and roads, or under § 9-401.04, relating to assessments for laying curbs, or under §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.04, 31/2 cents per square foot of area of said property, or 20 per centum of the value of said property, exclusive of improvements thereon, as assessed for the purpose of taxation at the time of the laying of the curb or gutter or curb and gutter for which said assessment is levied.  (May 25, 1943, 57 Stat. 83, ch. 98, § 3.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-616. 1973 Ed., § 7-612c.
DC Code § 9-411.04 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter II - Special Assessments|§ 9-411.04. Roadway improvements and curbs and gutters completed after May 25, 1943

No assessments shall be levied under §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.04, for any roadway improvement completed subsequent to May 25, 1943, but for curbs or gutters, or curbs and gutters, completed subsequent to May 25, 1943, assessments shall be levied against the abutting property in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.  (May 25, 1943, 57 Stat. 83, ch. 98, § 4.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-617. 1973 Ed., § 7-612d.
DC Code § 9-421.01 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.01. Amount assessed; levied pro rata

Whenever under the appropriations made by Congress, the roadway of any street, avenue, or road in the District of Columbia is paved or repaved with sheet asphalt, asphalt block, asphaltic or bituminous concrete (except penetration macadam), cement concrete, granite block, vitrified brick, or other form of permanent pavement, one-half of the total cost thereof shall be charged against and become a lien upon the abutting property, and assessments therefor shall be levied pro rata according to the linear frontage of said property on the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, upon the roadway of which said new pavement or repaving is laid; provided, however, that when such new pavement or repaving is laid solely on 1 side of the centerline of such roadway, the one-half cost thereof shall be assessed, as herein provided, against the property abutting the side of the street, avenue, or road, or portion thereof, so improved.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1197, ch. 246, § 1.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-627. 1973 Ed., § 7-622. Section References This section is referenced in § 9-411.03, § 9-411.04, § 9-421.02, § 9-421.07, § 9-421.09, § 9-421.11, and § 9-421.12. Cross References Street construction and maintenance, streets with concurrent railroad tracks, allocation of costs, see § 9-1203.07.
DC Code § 9-421.02 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.02. Assessment for gutters and curbs

For the purposes of computing the assessments under this subchapter, the term “roadway” shall be construed to include the gutters and curbings; provided, however, that where any permanent and new construction of curb, or curb and gutter, is laid, and the roadway of the street is not paved or repaved, or is not paved or repaved with a pavement of the character specified in § 9-421.01, the half cost of such curb, or curb and gutter, shall be assessed against the abutting property in the manner provided in this subchapter.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1197, ch. 246, § 2.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-628. 1973 Ed., § 7-623.
DC Code § 9-421.03 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.03. Certain roadway improvements excepted

There shall be excepted from such assessments the cost of paving the roadway in excess of 40 feet in width where the new pavement or repaving is laid on both sides of the centerline of such roadway; the cost of paving the roadway in excess of 20 feet in width where the new pavement or repaving is laid solely on 1 side of the centerline of such roadway; the cost of paving the roadway space included within the intersection of streets, avenues, and roads, as said intersections are limited by lines normally projected from the building lines of the street, avenue, or road being improved at its point of intersection with the building lines of the intersecting streets, avenues, or roads and also the cost of paving or repaving the space within such roadways for which street railway companies are responsible under their charters or under law, on streets, avenues, or roads where such railways have been or shall be constructed.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1197, ch. 246, § 3.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-629. 1973 Ed., § 7-624.
DC Code § 9-421.04 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.04. Limitations on assessments; computation

The maximum linear front foot assessment levied hereunder shall not exceed $3.50 per linear front foot. The total assessment levied hereunder against any abutting property shall not exceed the number of square feet of area of said property multiplied by 1 per centum of the linear front-foot assessment, and shall not exceed 20 per centum of the value of the said abutting property, exclusive of improvements thereon, as assessed for the purpose of taxation at the time of the paving or repairing of the street, avenue, or road for which said assessment is levied. In computing assessments hereunder against unsubdivided land by the square foot or according to the assessed valuation, there shall be excluded from the computation land lying back more than 100 feet from the street, avenue, or road being improved where the depth is even; where the depth is uneven, the average depth shall be taken in computation, but not to exceed 100 feet.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1197, ch. 246 § 4.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-630. 1973 Ed., § 7-625.
DC Code § 9-421.05 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.05. Property exempt where prior assessment paid

No property on which a legal assessment has been levied and paid for paving or repaving, curbing or curbing and guttering, on the roadway of any street, avenue, or road, shall be liable for any further assessment under this subchapter on account of the replacement of such pavement, curbing, or curbing and guttering.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1198, ch. 246, § 5.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-631. 1973 Ed., § 7-626. Section References This section is referenced in § 9-421.13.
DC Code § 9-421.06 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.06. Property exempt where prior roadway improvement made at owner’s expense

No assessments shall be levied for repaving where the original pavement was laid at the whole cost of the owner or owners of the abutting property if the said original pavement was constructed under a permit issued by the District of Columbia and under the supervision and direction of an authorized engineer and inspector of the Department of Transportation of said District, in strict accordance with the then current specifications and design for pavements of the type for which permit was issued; provided, that where curb, or curb and gutter, or a part of the roadway has or have been paved under proper permit, subject to engineering and inspection as above stated, the assessment for paving other parts of the roadway, placing curb, or curb and gutter, when the same is done at public expense, shall be made against property abutting on the highway as provided in this subchapter, credit being given in such assessment for the half cost of the pavement laid by the owner under permit as above, estimated on the basis of the contract rates for such work at the date of the performance of the assessable work, so that the total cost to the owner for such improvements shall not exceed the amount of assessments which would have been made under this subchapter, had the improvements been all made at public expense.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1198, ch. 246, § 6.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-632. 1973 Ed., § 7-627. Section References This section is referenced in § 9-421.13. Transfer of Functions Reorganization Order No. 53 of the Board of Commissioners, dated June 30, 1953, established under the direction and control of the Engineer Commissioner, a Department of Highways, headed by a Director. The Department of Highways was established to perform highway services and operations for the District including the planning, design, engineering, operation, maintenance and repair of highway and bridge facilities. The Order sets out the purposes and organization of the new Department. The Order abolished the previously existing Department of Highways, the Street Division, the Bridge Division, the Electrical Division, the Trees and Parking Division and the Central Garage and Shops, and transferred all of their functions and positions to the new Department of Highways. Reorganization Order No. 53, as redesignated Organization Order No. 122, dated January 8, 1959, and amended to establish a new Department of Highways and Traffic, headed by a Director. The Order set forth the purpose, organization, and functions of the new Department. The Department of Highways and Traffic was replaced by the Department of Transportation by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1975, dated July 24, 1975. The functions of the Department of Transportation were transferred to the Department of Public Works by Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983, effective March 1, 1984.
DC Code § 9-421.07 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.07. Exemption for resurfacing by heater method

No assessment shall be levied for the cost of resurfacing asphalt pavements by the heater method — stripping the surface from a rigid type base, and replacing surface thereon — or covering an existing hard surface or macadam pavement or base with bituminous material; provided, that where an entire pavement is removed and replaced with a pavement of the character specified in § 9-421.01, the cost of the latter pavement shall be assessed as provided in this subchapter, if no previous legal assessment has been levied and paid therefor.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1198, ch. 246, § 7.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-633. 1973 Ed., § 7-628. Section References This section is referenced in § 9-421.13.
DC Code § 9-421.08 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.08. Property abutting 2 or more streets

When any property abuts 2 or more streets, avenues, or roads, the assessments against said property levied under this subchapter shall not exceed in the aggregate, together with any legal assessments levied and paid prior to February 20, 1931, for the paving, curbing, or curbing and guttering of or on said streets, avenues, or roads, 31/2 cents per square foot of area of said property, or 20 per centum of the value of said property, exclusive of improvements thereon, as assessed for purposes of taxation at the time of the paving or repaving, curbing, or curbing and guttering for which the assessment is levied.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1198, ch. 246, § 8.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-634. 1973 Ed., § 7-629. Section References This section is referenced in § 9-421.13.
DC Code § 9-421.09 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 9 - Transportation Systems|Chapter 4 - Street Repair and Construction|Subchapter III - Assessment When Roadway Paved|§ 9-421.09. Collection; interest; exception to requirement of advertising

The assessments provided for in §§ 9-421.01 to 9-421.12 shall be made and collected as provided in § 9-401.06, relating to alleys and sidewalks. The rate of interest to be charged upon any assessment, levied under § 9-401.06 relating to alleys and sidewalks, or any instalment thereof, is reduced hereby from 8 per centum per annum to 6 per centum per annum; provided, however, that any instalment of any such assessment not paid within the time provided in § 9-401.06 shall thereafter bear interest at the rate of 12 per centum per annum; and provided further, that the advertisement by publication of the intention of the Mayor of the District of Columbia to perform the work and the formal hearing in respect thereto required by law as to alley and sidewalk improvements shall not be required as to roadway, curbing, and gutter improvements.  (Feb. 20, 1931, 46 Stat. 1198, ch. 246, § 9.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 7-635. 1973 Ed., § 7-630. 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 401 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 a single Commissioner. 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.