• Current through October 23, 2012

There is established within the Department of Housing and Community Development the Rental Accommodations Division, which shall have as its head a Rent Administrator.

(July 17, 1985, D.C. Law 6-10, § 203, 32 DCR 3089; Sept. 18, 2007, D.C. Law 17-20, § 2003(c), 54 DCR 7052; Mar. 25, 2009, D.C. Law 17-366, § 2(b), 56 DCR 1332.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 45-2513.

Effect of Amendments

D.C. Law 17-20 rewrote the section which had read as follows:

"(a) There is continued as a division in the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, a Rental Accommodations and Conversion Division which shall have as its head a Rent Administrator to be appointed by the Mayor.

"(b) The Rent Administrator shall possess experience of a technical nature in housing-provider or tenant affairs or in a field directly related to housing-provider or tenant affairs, shall be a resident of the District, and shall be entitled to receive annual compensation, payable in regular installments, at the rate of grade 15 of the District schedule established under subchapter XII of Chapter 6 of Title 1."

D.C. Law 17-366 rewrote the section, which had read as follows:

"§ 42-3502.03. Housing regulation; rental accommodations; rental conversions and sales.

"(a) There is established within the Department of Housing and Community Development, established by Reorganization No. 3 of 1975 (part B of subchapter I of Chapter 15 of Title 1), the Housing Regulation Administration, which shall have as its head a Housing Regulation Administrator who shall be appointed by, and report directly to, the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development.

"(b)(1) There is established within the Department of Housing and Community Development the Rental Accommodations Division, which shall have as its head a Rent Administrator who shall be appointed by the Mayor.

"(2) The Rent Administrator shall possess experience of a technical nature in housing-provider or tenant affairs, or in a field directly related to housing-provider or tenant affairs, and shall report to the Housing Regulation Administrator.

"(3) The Rent Administrator shall be a resident of the District and shall receive annual compensation equivalent to that received by a District employee compensated at the grade of 15 of the District schedule established under subchapter XI of Chapter 6 of Title I.

"(c)(1) There is established within the Department of Housing and Community Development a Rental Conversion and Sale Division, which shall have as its head a Rental Conversion and Sale Administrator who shall report to the Housing Regulation Administrator.

"(2) The Rental Conversion and Sale Administrator shall receive annual compensation equivalent to that received by a District employee compensated at the grade of 15 of the District schedule established under subchapter XI of Chapter 6 of Title 1."

Emergency Act Amendments

For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 2003(c) of Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2007 (D.C. Act 17-74, July 25, 2007, 54 DCR 7549).

Legislative History of Laws

For legislative history of D.C. Law 6-10, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 42-3501.01.

For Law 17-20, see notes following § 42-2802.

For Law 17-366, see notes following § 42-3401.03.

Miscellaneous Notes

Termination of Law 6-10: See Historical and Statutory Notes following § 42- 3502.01.