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Division I - GOVERNMENT OF DISTRICTTitle 9 - TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMSSubtitle I - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, STREETS, AND ALLEYSChapter 2 - STREET AND ALLEY CLOSING AND ACQUISITION PROCEDURESUnit A - STREET AND ALLEY CLOSINGSSubchapter IV - PUBLIC SPACE NAMES AND COMMEMORATIVE WORKS
Part A - NAMING OF PUBLIC SPACE
Section 9-204.05 - Use of living persons' names prohibited; use of deceased persons' names restricted

D.C. Code § 9-204.05

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Section 9-204.05 - Use of living persons' names prohibited; use of deceased persons' names restricted

Except as provided in § 9-204.10, no public space in the District shall be named in honor of any living person, or in honor of any person who has been deceased less than 2 years, unless the deceased person was a President or Vice President of the United States, a United States Senator or Representative, a Mayor of the District of Columbia, or a member of the Council of the District of Columbia.

D.C. Code § 9-204.05

Mar. 10, 1983, D.C. Law 4-201, § 405, 30 DCR 148; Feb. 26, 2016, D.C. Law 21-68, § 2(a), 62 DCR 16266.