B 25-0467 — Sign Regulations Temporary Amendment Act of 2023

ENGROSSEDENROLLED ORIGINAL ABILLANACT 3____________ 25-467 5 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 7 ______________________ 9 To amend, on a temporary basis,Appendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations to ratify and adopt certain sign regulations previously issued by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board, the Director of the Department of Consumer and RegulatoryAffairs, and the CityAdministrator, to amend AnAct To regulate the erection, hanging, placing, painting, display, and maintenance of outdoor signs and other forms of exterior advertising within the District of Columbia and the Construction CodesApproval andAmendmentsAct of 1986 to clarify the rulemaking process for sign regulations, and to clarify the prohibition on off-premises advertising in Appendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations.

(1) The portion of the final rule adopted by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board on March 20, 20142014, that promulgatedAppendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, which was published in the District of Columbia Register on March 28, 2014, at 61 DCR 2782, as corrected by errata notices published in the ENGROSSED ORIGINAL District of Columbia Register on May 23, 2014, at 61 DCR 5246, and on June 6, 2014, at 61 DCR 5761;

(2) The portion of the emergency rule adopted by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board on May 7, 20142014, that amendedAppendix N of Title 12A of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, which was published in the District of Columbia Register on May 9, 2014, at 61 DCR 4760;

(3) The portion of the emergency rule adopted by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board onAugust 29, 20142014, that amendedAppendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, which was published in the District of Columbia Register onAugust 29, 2014, at 61 DCR 8983;

ENROLLED ORIGINAL (4) The portion of the final rule adopted by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board on December 15, 20152015, that amendedAppendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, which was published in the District of Columbia Register on January 2, 2015, at 62 DCR 103;

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL (7) The emergency rule adopted by the CityAdministrator on November 4, 2016, which was published in the District of Columbia Register on November 4, 2016, at 63 DCR 13718;

and (10) The portion of the final rule adopted by the Chairperson of the Construction Codes Coordinating Board on May 21, 20202020, that promulgatedAppendix N of Subtitle 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations, which was published in the District of Columbia Register on May 29, 2020, at 67 DCR 5679.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL (2)Arule duly issued after the effective date of this act alters or supersedes the text of such rule;

(c) No criminal penalties may be imposed for an act or omission that predated the effective date of this act November 2, 2022, if that act or omission constitutes a violation of law as a result of the retroactive applicability of a rule ratified and adopted in subsection (a) of this section.

(a) Section 1 ofAnAct To regulate the erection, hanging, placing, painting, display, and maintenance of outdoor signs and other forms of exterior advertising within the District of ENROLLED ORIGINAL Columbia, approved March 3, 1931 (46 Stat.

(A) Strike the phrase “The Mayor shall issue, amend, repeal and enforce rules governing the hanging, placing, painting, projection, display, and maintenance of signs on public space, public buildings, or other property owned or controlled by the District and on private property within public view within the District” and insert the phrase “The Mayor, pursuant to Title I of the District of ColumbiaAdministrative ProcedureAct, approved October ENGROSSED ORIGINAL 21, 1968 (82 Stat.

(b) The Construction CodesApproval andAmendmentsAct of 1986, effective March 21, 1987 (D.C.

ENGROSSED ORIGINAL (2) Section 10(a) (D.C.

Section N101.6 ofAppendix N of Title 12-Aof the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations is amended by striking the phrase “No sign subject to the provisions of Section ENROLLED ORIGINAL N101” and inserting the phrase “No sign subject to the provisions of Section N101, regardless of whether a permit is or was required for the erection of the sign and regardless of whether the sign was subject to the provisions of Section N101 at the time of its erection,” in its place.

5.5.Applicability.

This act shall apply as of November 2, 2022.

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ENGROSSED ORIGINAL (a) This act shall take effect following approval by the Mayor (or in the event of veto by the Mayor, action by the Council to override the veto), a 30-day period of congressional review as provided in section 602(c)(1) of the District of Columbia Home RuleAct, approved December 24, 1973 (87 Stat.

______________________________ Chairman Council of the District of Columbia _________________________________ Mayor District of Columbia 4