Section 10-B2200. GENERAL PROVISIONS

 

2200.1The provisions of this chapter shall establish a means of providing relocation services, payments for moving costs, replacement housing, and other expenses, and to ensure uniform, fair, and equitable treatment for all persons who are required to move because of public works projects, including highway projects, of the government of the District of Columbia.

 

2200.2The provisions of this chapter shall also establish a means of providing relocation services for persons required to move as a result of other public actions, such as the condemnation of unsafe and insanitary buildings and the enforcement of District laws and regulations relating to housing.

 

2200.3The construction or development of public works shall be so scheduled that, to the greatest extent practicable, no person lawfully occupying real property shall be required to move from his or her dwelling or his or her business until after ninety (90) days written notice.

 

2200.4Except as provided by §2208, no family or individual shall be required to move unless offered relocation housing that meets the standards set forth in this chapter.

 

2200.5Any person displaced on or after February 13, 1973, shall be entitled only to those services and payments provided in this chapter; Provided, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect any rights or liabilities in existence as of January 2, 1971, nor any rights granted pursuant to Commissioner's Order No. 71-185, dated June 7, 1971.

 

2200.6Any displaced person who moved after January 2, 1971, and before the February 13, 1973, and who filed a claim for any relocation payment under the regulations then in effect may file a supplementary claim for any additional benefits to which he or she may be entitled under this chapter.

 

2200.7Any displaced person who moved after January 2, 1971, and before February 13, 1973, and who did not file a supplementary claim, may file either under the regulations in effect on the date of the move or under this chapter.

 

2200.8The Mayor shall make all relocation payments and provide all assistance required of a federal agency by §209 of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (also referred to in this chapter as "the Act"), as amended (D.C. Code, §5-834), and shall make all payments and meet all requirements prescribed for a federal agency by Title III of the Act.

 

2200.9The Mayor shall ensure that, within a reasonable period of time prior to displacement, there will be available in areas not generally less desirable in regard to public utilities and public and commercial facilities and at rents or prices within the financial means of the families and individuals displaced, decent, safe, and sanitary dwellings, equal in number to the number of and available to displaced persons who require those dwellings. The dwellings shall also be reasonably accessible to the places of employment of the displaced persons.

 

2200.10The Mayor shall coordinate activities of federal and District agencies and departments and planned or proposed governmental actions in the community that may affect relocation assistance programs and which are related to the relocation functions of the Relocation Office under the Agreement, and to develop in cooperation with the Relocation Office, operating procedures necessary to carry out these functions.

 

2200.11 To the extent permitted by law, the D.C. Department of Human Services and other departments and agencies administering public assistance, job training and placement, vocational rehabilitation, health, welfare, and other programs shall cooperate with and assist the Relocation Office in providing displaced individuals and families services and assistance that they may require which they are eligible to receive.

 

2200.12Individuals and families who are displaced, and those who are displaced by local code enforcement from property acquired by the United States or the District for public works projects or from property condemned or vacated as unsafe and insanitary as the result of enforcement of District laws and regulations relating to housing, shall, with respect to vacancies occurring in housing owned or operated within the District by federal or District agencies, be given the same preference provided to displaced families by §8(b) of the District of Columbia Redevelopment Act of 1945, as amended (D.C. Code §5-807(b)).

 

authority

§5 of the Act approved October 6, 1964 (78 Stat. 1004; D.C. Code §5-833), §402(130) of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967, D.C. Code 1967, Title I, Appendix at 154, and §209 of the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (84 Stat. 1894; D.C. Code §5-834).

source

§§102, 103, 104, 303, 403, 601, 602 and 603 of the Relocation Regulations, Regulation No. 73-4, 19 DCR 599 (February 21, 1973).