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A RESOLUTION
21-240
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
October 6, 2015
To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the Retail Services Station Act of 1976 to provide that certain prohibitions on discontinuing or converting to another use a full service retail service station shall not apply to a retail service station for which an application was on file with the Zoning Commission between May 2, 2015 and August 1, 2015.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Gas Station Advisory Board Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2015”.
Sec. 2. (a) In October 2014, the Council enacted the New Columbia Statehood Initiative and Omnibus Boards and Commissions Reform Amendment Act of 2014, effective May 2, 2015 (D.C. Law 20-271; 62 DCR 1884) (“Act”).
(b) Part 2 of Title II of the Act increased the prohibitions against conversion of a full-service retail service stations by adding the prohibition that such a station cannot be discontinued or be converted into any other use without a waiver.
(c) It is important to protect the integrity of doing business in and with the District by protecting those businesses that were in the process of converting their property or business into a non-service station enterprise before the Act becoming law.
(d) Emergency legislation is necessary to provide that retail service stations that submitted an application with the Zoning Commission will not be impacted by the added prohibitions of the Act.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Gas Station Advisory Board Emergency Amendment Act of 2015 be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
