Public Law 58–89

That the last proviso of the Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, entitled “An Act to vest in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia control of street parking in said District,” is amended so as to read as follows:

“That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized

Use of sidewalks and parking for business purposes.

and directed to denominate port ions of streets in the District of Columbia as business streets and to authorize the use, on such portions of streets, for business purposes by abutting property owners, under such general regulations as said Commissioners may prescribe, of so much of the sidewalk arid parking as may not be needed, in the judgment of said Commissioners, by the general public, under the following conditions, namely: First, where in a portion of a street not already denominated

Conditions.

a business street a majority of a frontage not less than three blocks in length is occupied and used for business purposes; and second, where a portion of a street has already been denominated a business street and there exists adjoining such portion a block or more whose frontage is occupied and used for business purposes.”