§ 25-609 — ANC comments.

District of Columbia § 25-609

• Jurisdiction: District of Columbia
• Title 25: Alcoholic Beverages. [Enacted title]
• Ch. 6: Protests, Referendum, and Complaints.

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(a) The affected ANC shall notify the Board in writing of its recommendations, if any, and serve a copy upon the applicant or licensee not less than 7 calendar days before the date of the hearing. Whether the ANC participates as a protestant, the Board shall give great weight to the ANC recommendations as required by subchapter V of Chapter 3 of Title 1 . The applicant or licensee shall have the opportunity to respond to the ANC recommendations in a manner to be prescribed in the rules adopted by the Board.

(b) In the event that an affected ANC submits a settlement agreement to the Board on a protested license application, the Board, upon its approval of the settlement agreement, shall dismiss any protest of a group of no fewer than 5 residents or property owners meeting the requirements of § 25-601(2) [§ 25-601(a)(2)] . The Board shall not dismiss a protest filed by another affected ANC, a citizens association, or an abutting property owner meeting the requirements of § 25-601(3) [§ 25-601(a)(3)] upon the Board’s approval of an ANC’s settlement agreement submission.

Legislative History

May 3, 2001, D.C. Law 13-298, § 101, 48 DCR 2959; May 1, 2013, D.C. Law 19-310, § 2(w), 60 DCR 3410; May 2, 2015, D.C. Law 20-270, § 2(d), 62 DCR 1866