District of Columbia Official Code 2001 Edition.

Division VIII. General Laws.

Title 50. Motor and Non-Motor Vehicles and Traffic.

Subtitle IV. Motorized Vehicle Registration, Inspection, Licensing.

Chapter 13. Motor Vehicle Owners and Operators Responsibility.

Subchapter VI. Violation of Provisions of Chapter; Penalties.

§ 50-1301.69. Transfer of registration to defeat purpose of chapter.

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(a) If an owner's registration has been suspended hereunder, such registration shall not be transferred nor the vehicle in respect to which such registration was issued registered in any other name until the Mayor is satisfied that such transfer of registration is proposed in good faith and not for the purpose or with the effect of defeating the purposes of this chapter.

(b) Nothing in this section shall in anywise affect the rights of any conditional vendor, chattel mortgagee or lessor of such a vehicle registered in the name of another as owner who becomes subject to the provisions of this chapter.

                
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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 138, ch. 222, § 69.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-469.

1973 Ed., § 40-485.

Change in Government

This section originated at a time when local government powers were delegated to a Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia (see Acts Relating to the Establishment of the District of Columbia and its Various Forms of Governmental Organization in Volume 1). Section 401 of Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 (see Reorganization Plans in Volume 1) transferred all of the functions of the Board of Commissioners under this section to a single Commissioner. The District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, 87 Stat. 818, § 711 (D.C. Code, § 1-207.11), abolished the District of Columbia Council and the Office of Commissioner of the District of Columbia. These branches of government were replaced by the Council of the District of Columbia and the Office of Mayor of the District of Columbia, respectively. Accordingly, and also pursuant to § 714(a) of such Act (D.C. Code, § 1-207.14(a)), appropriate changes in terminology were made in this section.

§ 50-1301.70. Surrender of license and registration.

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Any person whose license or registration shall have been suspended under any provision of this chapter, or whose policy of insurance, when required under this chapter, shall have been cancelled or terminated, shall immediately return his license and registration to the Mayor. If any person shall fail to return to the Mayor the license or registration as provided herein, the Mayor shall forthwith direct any police officer to secure possession thereof and to return the same to the Mayor.

                
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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 138, ch. 222, § 70; Sept. 18, 1982, D.C. Law 4-155, § 14(c)(6), 29 DCR 3491.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-470.

1973 Ed., § 40-486.

Legislative History of Laws

For legislative history of D.C. Law 4-155, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 50-1301.03.

Change in Government

§ 50-1301.71. Failure to report accident; penalty.[Repealed]

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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 138, ch. 222, § 71; Sept. 18, 1982, D.C. Law 4-155, § 14(e), 29 DCR 3491.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-471.

1973 Ed., § 40-487.

Legislative History of Laws

For legislative history of D.C. Law 4-155, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 50-1301.03.

§ 50-1301.72. False information or forged signature in accident report; forged evidence of proof of financial responsibility; false swearing.[Repealed]

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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 138, ch. 222, § 72; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 957, Pub. L. 85-792, § 13; Sept. 18, 1982, D.C. Law 4-155, § 14(e), 29 DCR 3491.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-472.

1973 Ed., § 40-488.

Legislative History of Laws

For legislative history of D.C. Law 4-155, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 50-1301.03.

§ 50-1301.73. Operating motor vehicle when license suspended or revoked.[Repealed]

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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 138, ch. 222, § 73; Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 957, Pub. L. 85-792, § 14; Sept. 14, 1982, D.C. Law 4-145, § 11(b), 29 DCR 3138.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-473.

1973 Ed., § 40-489.

Legislative History of Laws

For legislative history of D.C. Law 4-145, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 50-2205.02.

§ 50-1301.74. Failure to return license or registration; penalty.

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Any person willfully failing to return a license or registration as required in § 50-1301.70, or when otherwise requested in writing by the Mayor shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not to exceed 30 days, or both.

                
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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 139, ch. 222, § 74; Mar. 14, 2007, D.C. Law 16-279, § 103(c), 54 DCR 903.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-474.

1973 Ed., § 40-490.

Effect of Amendments

D.C. Law 16-279 rewrote this section, which formerly read:

"Any person willfully failing to return license or registration as required in § 50-1301.70 shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not to exceed 30 days, or both."

Legislative History of Laws

For Law 16-279, see notes following § 50-312.

§ 50-1301.75. Penalty for violations of chapter.

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Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter for which no penalty is otherwise provided shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 90 days, or both.

                
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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 139, ch. 222, § 75.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-475.

1973 Ed., § 40-491.

§ 50-1301.76. Jurisdiction of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia as to prosecutions for violations of provisions of chapter.

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All prosecutions for violations of this chapter shall be in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, in the name of the District of Columbia, by the Corporation Counsel or any of his assistants.

                
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(May 25, 1954, 68 Stat. 139, ch. 222, § 76; July 8, 1963, 77 Stat. 77, Pub. L. 88-60, § 1; July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 570, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 155(a).)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 40-476.

1973 Ed., § 40-492.