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DC Code § 42-3217 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3217. Distress not unlawful and party making it not trespasser ab initio because of irregularity; special damages recoverable; costs; tender of amends defeats recovery

Where any distress shall be made for any kind of rent justly due, and any irregularity or unlawful act shall be afterwards done by the party or parties distraining, or by his, her, or their agents; the distress itself shall not be therefore deemed to be unlawful, nor the party or parties making it be deemed a trespasser or trespassers ab initio; but the party or parties aggrieved by such unlawful act or irregularity shall or may recover full satisfaction for the special damage he, she, or they shall have sustained thereby, and no more, in an action of trespass or on the case at the election of the plaintiff or plaintiffs; provided always, that where the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall recover in such action, he, she, or they shall be paid his, her, or their full costs of suit, and have all the like remedies for the same as in other cases of costs; provided nevertheless, that no tenant or tenants, lessee or lessees, shall recover in any action for any such unlawful act or irregularity as aforesaid, if tender of amends hath been made by the party or parties distraining, his, her, or their agent or agents, before such action brought.  (11 Geo. 2, ch. 19, §§ 19, 20, 1738; Kilty’s Rep. 251; Alex. Br. Stat. 741, 742; Comp. Stat. D.C., 334, §§ 66, 67.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1417. 1973 Ed., § 45-919.
DC Code § 42-3218 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3218. Fraudulent removal, conveyance, or concealment of property to defeat lien subjects guilty party to forfeiture of double value of such property

If any tenant or lessee shall fraudulently remove and convey away his or her goods or chattels, or if any person or persons shall wilfully and knowingly aid or assist any such tenant or lessee in such fraudulent conveying away or carrying off of any part of his or her goods or chattels, or in concealing the same; all and every person or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay to the landlord or landlords, lessor or lessors, from whose estate such goods and chattels were fraudulently carried off as aforesaid, double the value of the goods by him, her or them respectively carried off or concealed as aforesaid; to be recovered by action of debt in any court of record.  (11 Geo. 2, ch. 19, § 3, 1738; Kilty’s Rep. 251; Alex. Br. Stat. 732; Comp. Stat. D.C., 329, § 53.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1418. 1973 Ed., § 45-920.
DC Code § 42-3219 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3219. Representatives of life tenant may recover proportion of rent from under-tenant

Where any tenants for life shall happen to die before or on the day, on which any rent was reserved or made payable upon any demise or lease of any lands, tenements, or hereditaments, which determined on the death of such tenant for life, the executors or administrators of such tenant for life shall and may in an action on the case recover of and from such under-tenant or under-tenants of such lands, tenements, or hereditaments, if such tenant for life dies on the day on which the same was made payable the whole, or if before such day then a proportion, of such rent according to the time such tenant for life lived, of the last year, or quarter of a year or other time in which the said rent was growing due as aforesaid, making all just allowances or a proportionable part thereof respectively.  (11 Geo. 2, ch. 19, § 15, 1738; Kilty’s Rep. 251; Alex. Br. Stat. 739; Comp. Stat. D.C., 333, § 64.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1419. 1973 Ed., § 45-921.
DC Code § 42-3220 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3220. Action in debt may be brought for rent in arrears under lease or demise for life

It shall and may be lawful for any person or persons, having any rent in arrear, or due upon any lease or demise for life or lives, to bring an action or actions of debt for such arrears of rent, in the same manner they might have done, in case such rent were due, and reserved upon a lease for years.  (8 Ann, ch. 14, § 4, 1709; Kilty’s Rep. 248; Alex. Br. Stat. 682; Comp. Stat. D.C., 325, § 42.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1420. 1973 Ed., § 45-922.
DC Code § 42-3221 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3221. Action by landlord for use and occupation of property where no deed; parol agreement as evidence of quantum of damages

It shall and may be lawful to and for the landlord or landlords, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, held or occupied by the defendant or defendants, in an action on the case, for the use and occupation of what was so held or enjoyed; and if in evidence on the trial of such action any parol demise or any agreement (not being by deed) whereon a certain rent was reserved shall appear, the plaintiff in such action shall not therefor be nonsuited, but may make use thereof as an evidence of the quantum of the damages to be recovered.  (11 Geo. 2, ch. 19, § 14, 1738; Kilty’s Rep. 251; Alex. Br. Stat. 738; Comp. Stat. D.C., 333, § 63.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1421. 1973 Ed., § 45-923.
DC Code § 42-3223 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3223. Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid

All and every such lease or leases so to be made or executed shall be deemed as good and valid, and effectual in the law, to all intents and purposes, as if the person with a mental disability was at the time of making or executing thereof of without a mental disability.  (11 Geo. 3, ch. 20, § 2, 1771; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 791; Comp. Stat. D.C., 336, § 75; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(b), 53 DCR 6198.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1423. 1973 Ed., § 45-925. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305 rewrote this section, which formerly read: “§ 42-3223. Leases under control of mentally handicapped—Lease pursuant to provisions of § 42-3222 valid. “All and every such lease or leases so to be made or executed as aforesaid, shall be and be deemed as good and valid, and effectual in the law, to all intents and purposes, as if such lunatic was at the time of making or executing thereof of sane mind, and had executed the same in his or her own proper person.”
DC Code § 42-3224 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3224. Leases under control of a person with a mental disability — Money received for renewal paid to guardian for benefit of person with a disability; characterization of money at death of person with a disability

All fines, premiums, foregifts, and sums of money, which shall or may be had, received, or paid for, or on account of the renewing of any such lease or leases as aforesaid, shall (after a deduction of all necessary incident charges and expenses) be paid to the guardian or guardians, committee or committees, of the person with a disability, and be applied and disposed of for the benefit of the person with the disability, in such manner as the chancellor shall direct: but, upon the death of the person with the disability, all such sum or sums of money as shall arise by such fines, premiums, or foregifts, or so much as shall remain unapplied for the benefit of the person with the disability, at his, her or their death, shall, as between the representatives of the real and personal estates of all such people with disabilities, be considered as real estate, unless such the person with a disability shall be a tenant for life only, and then the same shall be considered as personal estate.  (11 Geo. 3, ch. 20, § 3, 1771; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 792; Comp. Stat. D.C., 336, § 76; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(c), 53 DCR 6198.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1424. 1973 Ed., § 45-926. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305 rewrote this section, which formerly read: “§ 42-3224. Leases under control of mentally handicapped—Money received for renewal paid to guardian for benefit of handicapped; characterization of money at death of handicapped. “All fines, premiums, foregifts, and sums of money, which shall or may be had, received, or paid for, or on account of the renewing of any such lease or leases as aforesaid, shall (after a deduction of all necessary incident charges and expenses) be paid to the guardian or guardians, committee or committees, of the said lunatic, and be applied and disposed of for the benefit of such lunatic, in such manner as the chancellor shall direct: but, upon the death of such lunatic or lunatics, all such sum or sums of money as shall arise by such fines, premiums, or foregifts, or so much as shall remain unapplied for the benefit of such lunatic or lunatics, at his, her or their death, shall, as between the representatives of the real and personal estates of all such lunatics, be considered as real estate, unless such lunatic or lunatics shall be tenants for life only; and then the same shall be considered as personal estate.”
DC Code § 42-3225 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3225. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Surrender and renewal; guardian or committee; court order

In all cases where any person under the age of 18 years, or any person with mental illness, is or shall become interested in or entitled to any lease or leases made or granted, or to be made or granted, by any person or persons, bodies politic, corporate or collegiate, aggregate or sole, for the life or lives of 1 or more person or persons, or for any term of years, either absolute or determinable upon the death of 1 or more person or persons or otherwise, it shall and may be lawful for such person under the age of 18 years, or for his or her guardian or guardians, or other person or persons on his or her behalf, and for such person with mental illness, or his or her guardian or guardians, committee or committees of the estate, or other person or persons on his or her behalf, to apply to the court of chancery by petition or motion, in a summary way, and by the order and direction of the said court made, upon hearing all parties concerned, such person under the age of 18 years, and such persons with mental illness, or person or persons appointed by the said courts respectively, by deed or deeds only, shall and may be enabled, from time to time, to surrender such lease or leases, and accept and take, in the name, and for the benefit of such person under the age of 18 years, or person with mental illness, 1 or more new lease or leases of the premises comprised in such lease or leases surrendered by virtue of this section for and during such number of lives, or for such term or terms of years, determinable upon such number of lives, or for such term or terms of years absolute, as was or were mentioned or contained in such lease or leases so surrendered, at the making thereof respectively, or otherwise as the said court shall respectively direct.  (29 Geo. 2, ch. 31, § 1, 1756; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 788; Comp. Stat. D.C., 335, § 70; July 22, 1976, D.C. Law 1-75, § 4(j), 23 DCR 1182; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(d), 53 DCR 6198.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1425. 1973 Ed., § 45-927. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305, in the section name line, substituted “person with a mental disability” for “mentally handicapped”; and substituted “person with mental illness” for “lunatic” and “persons with mental illness” for “lunatics”.
DC Code § 42-3226 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3226. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Costs of renewal chargeable to estate of infant or person with a disability or deemed charge upon leasehold

All and every sum and sums of money and other consideration, paid or advanced by any such guardian, trustee, committee or other person, for or on account of the renewal of any such lease or leases, and all reasonable charges incident thereto, shall be paid out of the estate or effects of the infant or person with a mental illness for whose benefit the said lease or leases shall be renewed, or shall be a charge and incumbrance upon the leasehold premises, together with interest for the same, as the said court shall direct and determine.  (29 Geo. 2, ch. 31, § 2, 1756; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 789; Comp. Stat. D.C., 335, § 71; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(e), 53 DCR 6198; Sept. 26, 2012, D.C. Law 19-169, § 26(b), 59 DCR 5567.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1426. 1973 Ed., § 45-928. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305 rewrote the section heading, which formerly read: “Lease held by infant or mentally handicapped—Costs of renewal chargeable to estate of infant or handicapped or deemed charge upon leasehold.” The 2012 amendment by D.C. Law 19-169 substituted “person with a mental illness” for “lunatic.” Editor's Notes Section 35 of D.C. Law 19-169 provided that no provision of the act shall impair any right or obligation existing under law.
DC Code § 42-3227 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3227. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — New leases to be of same nature and subject to same liabilities as surrendered leases

The respective leases to be so renewed, shall operate, and be to the same uses, and be liable to the same trusts, charges, incumbrances, dispositions, devises and conditions, as the leases to be, from time to time, surrendered as aforesaid, were or would have been subject to, in case such surrender had not been made.  (29 Geo. 2, ch. 31, § 3, 1756; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 790; Comp. Stat. D.C., 335, § 72; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(f), 53 DCR 6198.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1427. 1973 Ed., § 45-929. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305 rewrote the section heading, which formerly read: “Lease held by infant or mentally handicapped—New leases to be of same nature and subject to same liabilities as surrendered leases.”
DC Code § 42-3228 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3228. Lease held by an infant or person with a mental disability — Renewed lease valid

Every such surrender, and such lease or leases granted thereupon, shall be, and be deemed as valid and legal, to all intents and purposes, as if such surrender had been made by and on the behalf of a person of full age, or sane mind.  (29 Geo. 2, ch. 31, § 4, 1756; Kilty’s Rep. 253; Alex. Br. Stat. 790; Comp. Stat. D.C., 336, § 73; Apr. 24, 2007, D.C. Law 16-305, § 64(g), 53 DCR 6198.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1428. 1973 Ed., § 45-930. Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 16-305 rewrote the section heading, which formerly read: “Lease held by infant or mentally handicapped—Renewed lease valid”.
DC Code § 42-3229 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3229. Surrender for new lease good without surrender of underleases; underleases continue unaffected; all rights and remedies to continue

In case any lease shall be duly surrendered, in order to be renewed, and a new lease made and executed by the chief landlord or landlords, the same new lease shall, without a surrender of all the underleases, be as good and valid, to all intents and purposes, as if all the underleases derived thereout had been likewise surrendered at or before the taking of such new lease; and all and every person and persons in whom any estate for life or lives, or for years, shall, from time to time, be vested by virtue of such new lease, and his, her, and their executors and administrators, shall be entitled to the rents, covenants, and duties, and have like remedy for recovery thereof, and the underlessees shall hold and enjoy the messuages, lands, and tenements, in the respective underleases, comprised, as if the original leases, out of which the respective underleases are derived, had been still kept on foot and continued, and the chief landlord and landlords shall have, and be entitled to, such and the same remedy, by distress or entry in and upon the messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments comprised in any such underlease, for the rents and duties reserved by such new lease, so far as the same exceed not the rents and duties reserved in the lease, out of which such underlease was derived, as they would have had in case such former lease had been still continued, or as they would have had, in case the respective underleases had been renewed under such new principal lease.  (4 Geo. 2, ch. 28, § 6, 1731; Kilty’s Rep. 249; Alex. Br. Stat. 708; Comp. Stat. D.C., 328, § 50.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1429. 1973 Ed., § 45-931.
DC Code § 42-3230 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3230. Grant or assignment of reversion of premises or by lessee not to affect rights or duties under lease

The grantee or assignee of the reversion of any leased premises shall have the same right of action against the lessee, his personal representatives, heirs, or assigns, for rent or for any forfeiture or breach of any covenant or condition in the lease which the grantor or assignor might have had; and the assignee of the lessee shall have the same rights of action against the lessor, his grantee, or assignee, upon any covenants in the lease which the lessee might have had against the lessor.  (Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1384, ch. 854, § 1234.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1430. 1973 Ed., § 45-932.
DC Code § 42-3231 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3231. Grants of remainders, reversions, and rents good without attornment; payment of rent to grantor without notice valid

All grants or conveyances of any manors or rents, or of the reversion or remainder of any messuages or lands, shall be good and effectual, to all intents and purposes, without any attornment of the tenants of any such manors, or of the land out of which rent shall be issuing, or of the particular tenants upon whose particular estates any such reversions or remainders shall and may be expectant or depending, as if their attornment had been had and made; provided, nevertheless, that no such tenant shall be prejudiced or damaged by payment of any rent to any such grantor or conusor, or by breach of any condition for nonpayment of rent, before notice shall be given to him of such grant by the conusee or grantee.  (4 Ann, ch. 16, §§ 9, 10, 1705; Kilty’s Rep. 246; Alex. Br. Stat. 660, 661; Comp. Stat. D.C., 496, §§ 31, 32.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1431. 1973 Ed., § 45-933.
DC Code § 42-3232 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32 - Landlord and Tenant|§ 42-3232. Fraudulent attornment void; possession not changed by such attornment; limitation on scope of provisions

All and every fraudulent attornment and attornments of any tenant or tenants of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever; and the possession of their respective landlord or landlords, lessor or lessors, shall not be deemed or construed to be anywise changed, altered, or affected by any such attornment or attornments; provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to vacate or affect any attornment made pursuant to and in consequence of some judgment at law, or decree or order of a court of equity, or made with the privity and consent of the landlord or landlords, lessor or lessors, or to any mortgagee after the mortgage is become forfeited.  (11 Geo. 2, ch. 19, § 11, 1738; Kilty’s Rep. 251; Alex. Br. Stat. 737; Comp. Stat. D.C., 332, § 60.)  Prior Codifications 1981 Ed., § 45-1432. 1973 Ed., § 45-934.
DC Code § 42-3251 (2021)
2021 District of Columbia Code|Title 42 - Real Property|Chapter 32A - Lead Level Test of Water in Multiple Dwellings|§ 42-3251. Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the term: (1) “Dwelling unit” means any habitable room or group of habitable rooms located within a residential building and forming a single unit which is used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, and the preparation and eating of meals; including a bachelor apartment. (2) “Multiple Dwelling” means any residential building containing 3 or more dwelling units, 3 or more rooming units, or any combination of dwelling or rooming units totaling 3 or more. (3) “Owner” means any individual, corporation, association, or partnership listed as the legal title holder of record and any owners’ association legally incorporated in accordance with Chapter 9 of Title 29 or Chapter 19 of this title that is the recognized representative of the households in a condominium or cooperative housing building. (4) “WASA” means the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority established by § 34-2202.02.  (Apr. 8, 2005, D.C. Law 15-303, § 2, 52 DCR 1690; July 2, 2011, D.C. Law 18-378, § 3(ii), 58 DCR 1720.)  Effect of Amendments D.C. Law 18-378, in par. (3), validated a previously made technical correction. Temporary Legislation For temporary (225 day) addition, see § 2 of Multiple Dwelling Residence Water Lead Level Test Temporary Act of 2004 (D.C. Law 15-206, December 7, 2004, law notification 52 DCR 450).