Section 14-207. LICENSE AND USER FEES

 

207.1The following fees shall apply to a housing business in addition to the fees required for obtaining the business license:

 

(a) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3504.01 (2010 Repl.), an annual Rental Accommodations Division fee of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents ($21.50) per rental unit (which shall be collected at the initial issuance of the license and biennially at the renewal of the license in an amount of forty-three dollars ($43));

 

(b) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3131.01(c) (2011 Supp.), a fee of ninety dollars ($90) shall be collected for any reinspection of a licensee’s premises for routine housing code violations. The fee shall be collected after the reinspection has occurred;

 

(c) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3131.01(d) (2010 Repl. & 2011 Supp.), abatement by the Department of any housing or building code violations on a licensee’s premises shall result in an initial administrative fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) and an additional fee of thirty dollars ($30) for each person-hour of labor performed on the abatement beyond the first person-hour of labor. These fees shall be in addition to the costs the Department incurs for the abatement of the violations; and

 

(d)A fee to cover the cost of the Department’s proactive inspection program of thirty-five dollars ($35) per unit on rental accommodations of three (3) units or more shall be charged at the issuance and renewal of the license. The charge shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) biennially.

 

 

authority

Director of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, pursuant to the authority set forth in An Act To provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, approved April 14, 1906 (34 Stat. 114; D.C. Official Code §§ 42-3131.01, et seq. (2010 Repl. & 2011 Supp.)); Article III of Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1983, effective March 31, 1983, D.C Official Code §§ 47-2828 and 47-2851.20 (2005 Repl.); and Mayor’s Order 83-92, dated April 7, 1983

source

Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 7487, 7491 (June 22, 2012).