Cleaning streets, alleys, and avenues; maintenance of sewers

1. Law
2. District of Columbia Code
3. Government Organization
4. Specified Governmental Authority
5. Streets, Public Rights of Way, and Public Property
6. Cleaning streets, alleys, and avenues; maintenance of sewers

The sweeping, cleaning, and removing all refuse and filthy accumulations in the streets, alleys, and avenues of the City of Washington, and the repairs and cleaning of the sewers, are necessary municipal objects, which belong to the current expenses of the same, to be paid for in money as other ordinary municipal expenses.

(Mar. 1, 1875, 18 Stat. 337, ch. 117; Feb. 11, 1895, 28 Stat. 650, ch. 79.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 1-329.

1973 Ed., § 1-235.

Cross References

Collection and disposal of garbage, see § 8-701 et seq.

Highways and sewers, regulations governing repair, see § 9-101.01.

Removal of snow and ice, public property, see § 9-601 et seq.

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