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PUBLIC LAW 681-AUG. 28, 1954

"SEC. 15. Whenever any insanitary condition which has led to the condemnation of a building or part of building has been caused in any part by the action or by the neglect of the tenant or tenants, occupant or occupants thereof, such tenant, tenants, occupant, or occupants shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to the penalties provided in section 16 of this Act. "SEC. 16. Any person violating or aiding or abetting in violating sections 3,4, 5, 7,11,12, or 15 of this Act shall, upon conviction thereof in the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia, upon information filed in the name of said District, be punished by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than ninety days; and each day on which such unlawful act is done or during which such unlawful negligence continues shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. "SEC. 17. Except as herein otherwise authorized all expenses incident to the enforcement of this Act shall be paid from appropriations made from time to time for that purpose in like manner as other appropriations for the expenses of the District of Columbia. "SEC. 18. (a) For the purposes of this Act, the term 'Commissioners' shall mean the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent or agents; and the term 'owner' shall mean (1) any person, or any one of a number of persons, in whom is vested all or any part of the beneficial ownership, dominion, or title of the property found by the Commissioners to be in an insanitary condition; (2) the committee, conservator, or legal guardian of an owner who is non compos mentis, a minor child, or otherwise under a disability; or (3) a trustee elected or appointed, or required by law, to execute a trust, other than a trustee under a deed of trust to secure the repayment of a loan. "(b) Wherever under this Act any act is to be performed by, or any notice is to be given, an owner, such act may be performed by an agent of such owner, or such notice may be given to an agent of such owner who collects rent or otherwise acts as an agent for the owner in connection with said property. "SEC. 19. (a) All suits and proceedings instituted by or against the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings in the District of Columbia created by the first section of the Act approved May 1, 1906, supra, or the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings established by the Commissioners under the authority of Eeorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952, prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act, shall be deemed to have been taken by, or instituted by or against, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. "(b) With respect to any building or part of building condemned by either of the Boards aforesaid prior to the effective date of this amendatory Act, and which building or part of building stands condemned as of the effective date of this amendatory Act, the six-month period provided by section 3 of this amendatory Act shall commence running from the effective date of this amendatory Act. "(c) Wherever any provision of this Act refers to any order of the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings, such provision shall mean the order of such Board, or, if such order be reviewed by the Condemnation Keview Board, as such order has been affirmed or modified by the latter Board; and wherever this Act establishes any time limit within which there shall be compliance with an order of the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings, such time limit shall begin running from the date on which the owner of the property affected by said order is served with notice thereof, or, if such order be reviewed by the Condemnation Review Board,

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