Volume 76
Public Law 87–700
To relieve owners of abutting property from certain assessments in connection with the repair of alleys and sidewalks in the District of Columbia.
Approved September 25, 1962
Statutory text
AN ACT
To relieve owners of abutting property from certain assessments in connection with the repair of alleys and sidewalks in the District of Columbia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the second sentence in the second paragraph under the caption “assessment and permit work” in the first section of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes”, approved August 7, 1894 (28 Stat. 247), as amended (sec. 7–608, D.C. Code, 1961 edition), is amended by striking “said property” and inserting in lieu thereof “said property: Provided, That no such assessment shall be levied against abutting property for the cost of repairing alleys or sidewalks when the damage requiring such repair is caused by the growth of roots of trees on public space or the cause of such damage is otherwise beyond the control of the owner of such property”.
Sec. 2.
The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall apply to repairs to alleys or to sidewalks the completion of which repairs shall occur on or after the effective date of this Act.
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect ten days after its approval.
Approved September 25, 1962.