5822830 Transportation, District Department of, and Motor Vehicles, Department of - Notice to Extend Public Comment Period for Vision Zero Rulemaking  

  • DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES

    DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

     

    NOTICE OF EXTENSION OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD

     

    The Directors of the Department of Motor Vehicles and the District Department of Transportation are extending the public comment period on the proposed rulemaking to adopt amendments to Chapter 3 (Cancellation, Suspension, or Revocation of Licenses), Chapter 7 (Motor Vehicle Equipment), Chapter 22 (Moving Violations), Chapter 26 (Civil Fines for Moving and Non-Moving Infractions), and Chapter 99 (Definitions) of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR), to help achieve the goal by the year 2024 of zero fatalities and serious injuries to travelers of the District’s transportation system. The original thirty (30) day public comment period, scheduled to end on January 9, 2016, is being extended until February 1, 2016.

     

    The proposed rules were published in the D.C. Register at 62 DCR 15865 on December 11, 2015.  All comments received by Monday, February 1, 2016 will be considered.

     

    A copy of the proposed rulemaking is available at either of the following links: http://dcregs.dc.gov/Gateway/NoticeHome.aspx?NoticeID=5771905  or www.ddot.dc.gov.

     

     

    All persons interested in commenting on the subject matter in the subject proposed rulemaking may file comments in writing, not later than Monday, February 2, 2016, with Samuel D. Zimbabwe, Associate Director, District Department of Transportation, 55 M Street, S.E., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20003 and David Glasser, General Counsel, D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles, 95 M Street, S.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20024.  An interested person may also send comments electronically to publicspace.policy@dc.gov. Copies of the proposed rulemaking are available, at cost, by writing to the above address, and are also available electronically, at no cost, on the District Department of Transportation’s website at www.ddot.dc.gov.

     

    Electronic submission is preferred.