207. LICENSE AND USER FEES

207 LICENSE AND USER FEES 207.1 The following fees shall apply to a housing business in addition to the fees required for obtaining the business license: (a) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3504.01 (2010 Repl.), an annual Rental Accommodations Division fee of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents ($21.50) per rental unit (which shall be collected at the initial issuance of the license and biennially at the renewal of the license in an amount of forty-three dollars ($43)); (b) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3131.01(c) (2011 Supp.), a fee of ninety dollars ($90) shall be collected for any reinspection of a licensee’s premises for routine housing code violations. The fee shall be collected after the reinspection has occurred; (c) Pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 42-3131.01(d) (2010 Repl. & 2011 Supp.), abatement by the Department of any housing or building code violations on a licensee’s premises shall result in an initial administrative fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) and an additional fee of thirty dollars ($30) for each person-hour of labor performed on the abatement beyond the first person-hour of labor. These fees shall be in addition to the costs the Department incurs for the abatement of the violations; and (d) A fee to cover the cost of the Department’s proactive inspection program of thirty-five dollars ($35) per unit on rental accommodations of three (3) units or more shall be charged at the issuance and renewal of the license. The charge shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) biennially. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 7487, 7491 (June 22, 2012).