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Current through October 23, 2012
(a) The Mayor, or the Mayor's designee, is the state information agency under this chapter.
(b) The state information agency shall:
(1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in the District which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in the District and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;
(2) Maintain a register of the names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;
(3) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in the District in which the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state; and
(4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within the District not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security.
(Feb. 9, 1996, D.C. Law 11-81, § 309, 42 DCR 6748; redesignated § 310, June 22, 2006, D.C. Law 16-137, § 2(c)(10), 53 DCR 3634.)
HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES
Prior Codifications
1981 Ed., § 30-343.9.
2001 Ed., § 46-303.09
Effect of Amendments
D.C. Law 16-137 rewrote section, which had read as follows:
"§ 46-303.09. Duties of Mayor.
"(a) The Mayor, or the Mayor's designee, is the state information agency under this chapter.
"(b) The state information agency shall:
"(1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in the District which have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in the District and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;
"(2) Maintain a register of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;
"(3) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the place in the District in which the individual obligee or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this chapter received from an initiating tribunal or the state information agency of the initiating state; and
"(4) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within the District not exempt from execution by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses, and social security."
Legislative History of Laws
For legislative history of D.C. Law 11-81, see Historical and Statutory Notes following § 46-301.01.
For Law 16-137, see notes following § 46-301.01.
Effective Dates
Applicability: Section 3 of D.C. Law 16-137 provides: "This act shall apply as of April 1, 2007."
Editor's Notes
Former § 46-303.10 has been recodified as § 46-303.11 by D.C. Law 16-137, § 2(c)(10).
Uniform Law
This section is based upon § 310 of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (2001 Act). See Volume 9, Part IB Uniform Laws Annotated, Master Edition, or ULA Database on Westlaw.
