D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 1-306
All documents shall be submitted electronically by designated District of Columbia government agency personnel on the website that is found at http://.dcregs.dc.gov [File Link Not Available].
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The District of Columbia Register is published on Friday each week. If a government holiday falls on Friday, the official publication date will remain the same.
Documents to be submitted for publication must conform to all style guidelines set forth in the Office of Documents and Administrative Issuances' Rulemaking Handbook and Publications Style Manual, which is available online athttp://dcregs.dc.gov and at http://os/dc/gov [File Link Not Available]. Failure to conform to style guidelines may delay publication.
The method of submitting documents for publication is electronic. All documents that require signatures must be submitted as digital images of the paper original, using a format such as pdf, tif, or jpg. Originals of all documents to be published shall be retained at the agency that submitted them, for a minimum of one year from date of publication. The Office of Documents and Administrative Issuances will also print and retain a copy of each electronic submission for a minimum of one year.
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All documents that do not require signatures (e.g., notices, proposed rulemakings, etc.) should be submitted as properly formatted text files. Microsoft Word is the preferred word processing program of the Office of Documents.
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The deadline for submission of documents for publication in each Friday edition of the District of Columbia Register is as follows:
Documents filed for publication in an issue of the District of Columbia Register which is scheduled to be published on the Friday of a week containing an official District government holiday must be submitted one business day earlier than the deadline set forth in § 306.11.
Whenever an official government holiday falls on a Friday, the District of Columbia Register will be published one day earlier (Thursday), which means that all documents for publication in the District of Columbia Register are required to be submitted one business day earlier, as set forth in § 306.11.
All documents subject to codification in the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations shall be reviewed by the Office of Documents and Administrative Issuances and certified by the Administrator prior to publication in the District of Columbia Register.
A pre-publication review service shall be provided by the Office of Documents, as set forth in § 308, in order to expedite the publication of proposed rulemaking and other documents requiring detailed review.
Proposed rulemaking and other documents subject to codification in the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations which have not been through the pre-publication review process should be submitted several days in advance of the deadlines set forth in § 306.11 in order to allow time for editing.
Documents which have been tentatively certified by the Office of Documents following pre-publication review will not normally require additional review prior to publication.
The publication of a document on an emergency basis may be requested when the document involves the prevention, alleviation, control, or relief of an emergency situation that impacts the public.
An agency requesting emergency publication shall briefly describe the nature of the emergency situation and the public benefits which would result from immediate publication.
Requests for emergency publication shall be made in writing to dcdocuments@dc.gov.
If the Administrator concurs with the request for emergency publication, the document shall be posted on the agency's online website as soon as possible, and will be officially published in the next edition of the District of Columbia Register.
D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 1-306