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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 24. PUBLIC SPACE AND SAFETY |
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Chapter 24-1. OCCUPATION AND USE OF PUBLIC SPACE |
Section 24-107. STREETLIGHTS, STREET SIGNS, TREES, AND FIXTURES
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107.1No person shall break, damage, mutilate, or carry away any lantern, glass, frame, street designation, fixture, or other part or appurtenance of any public lamp; or hitch, tie, or fasten any animal to any public lamppost or appurtenance of a public lamp.
107.2Without a permit from the Mayor, no person shall remove, take up, or carry away any public lamppost; extinguish or obstruct the light in any public lamp; or cap or plug the service pipe of any public lamp.
107.3No person shall injure or destroy any public lamppost; attach any guy line to a public lamppost; deface any public lamppost or appurtenance of a lamppost by means of lime, mortar, paint, or other material; or pile material of any kind against any public lamppost.
107.4Only an employee of the District, or a person employed by a contractor for the lighting or painting of public lamps, shall climb any lamppost.
107.5No person shall hitch or fasten an animal to any tree on any street, avenue, or other public space in the District; nor to its wooden, wire, or other protection.
107.6Without a permit from Director of the Department of Public Works, no person shall trim, prune, whitewash, or pile material about any tree in a street, avenue, or other public place.
107.7Without a permit from Director of the Department of Public Works, no person shall attach any guy rope or wire to any tree in a street, avenue, or other public place.
107.8Permits may be issued to erect banners, ornaments, or lights, whose display is to celebrate a national holiday as declared by an Act of Congress or a District holiday as declared by District law, on lampposts and across a street or avenue between buildings, street lampposts, or traffic lights; provided, that no banners, ornaments, or lights shall be crected in a manner that obstructs the free passage of pedestrian or vehicular traffic.