Section 15-499. DEFINITIONS

 

499.1When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:

 

Apartment House - any building or part thereof, not used primarily for transient occupancy, in which there are three (3) or more apartments, each with one (1) or more habitable rooms with kitchen and bathroom facilities exclusively for use of and under the control of the occupant thereof.

 

Customer - a direct purchaser of utility service for use primarily under residential purposes.

 

Delinquent Account - an account that is unpaid twenty-one (21) days or more after the bill is rendered.

 

Fair and Equitable - a pro rata division of the monthly utility bill which is based on a stated allocation formula which takes into account as a minimum the number of units, the relative size of the units and the types of equipment using the utility service.

 

Master-Metered Apartment Building - any apartment house where the owner, agent, lessor or manager of the apartment house is billed directly by the utility company for a particular utility service furnished to such apartment house, and such apartment house is occupied by tenants.

 

Rent - any payment designated as rent or any other payment made for the use and occupancy of an apartment in an apartment house.

 

Tenant - any person who holds or possesses a habitation in subordination to the title of the owner of the premises in which such habitation is located, with the consent of the owner.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 28 DCR 3329, 3331 (July 24, 1981).