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| (Taped 06/23/08) PUBLIC HEARING, COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SERVICES AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS, Mary M. Cheh, Chairperson | Agenda item:
1. "Abatement of Nuisance Properties and Tenant Receivership Amendment Act of 2008", Bill 17-0729. To amend An Act to provide for the abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the Commissioners of said District, and for other purposes, to include construction code and property maintenance code violations as bases for summary correction of life or health threatening conditions and to revise the service of process rules; to amend the Rental Housing Conversion and Sale Act of 1980 to extend relocation and storage expense assistance to displaced tenants while a condemnation proceeding is pending, and to set the amount of relocation and storage expenses available to such tenants; to amend the Rental Housing Act of 1985 to clarify the Mayor's right to inspect housing accommodations and to apply for administrative search warrants to gain access where a landlord or tenant fails to cooperate with attempts at authorized inspections; to amend the Abatement and Condemnation of Nuisance Properties Omnibus Amendment Act of 2000 to add construction and property maintenance code violations as bases for the appointment of a tenant receivership, to remove the 50% limit on the amount of rent available for abatement actions by a receiver; that a receiver may be ordered where a rental housing accommodation is operated in a manner that demonstrates a pattern of neglect for the property for 30 successive days, to provide that service of notices of violation may be effected by posting the notices in or about the property, and to provide that a court may in appropriate circumstances order a respondent to contribute funds in addition to amounts collected as rent for the abatement of housing code violations; and to amend Title 14 of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations to permit civil and criminal sanctions for housing code violations.
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