District of Columbia
D.C. Code — Title 22, Criminal Offenses and Penalties
582 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.
- § 22-1001 — Definitions and penalties
- § 22-1002 — Other cruelties to animals
- § 22-1002.01 — Reporting requirements
- § 22-1003 — Rest, water and feeding for animals transported by railroad company
- § 22-1004 — Arrests without warrant authorized; notice to owner
- § 22-1005 — Issuance of search warrants
- § 22-1006 — Prosecution of offenders; disposition of fines
- § 22-1006.01 — Penalty for engaging in animal fighting
- § 22-1007 — Impounded animals to be supplied with food and water
- § 22-1008 — Relief of impounded animals
- § 22-1009 — Keeping or using place for fighting or baiting of fowls or animals; arrest without warrant
- § 22-101 — Definition and penalty
- § 22-1010 — Penalty for engaging in cockfighting or animal fighting
- § 22-1011 — Neglect of sick or disabled animals
- § 22-1012 — Abandonment of maimed or diseased animal; destruction of diseased animals; disposition of animal or vehicle on arrest of driver; scientific experiments
- § 22-1013 — Definitions
- § 22-1014 — Docking tails of horses
- § 22-1015 — Penalty for engaging in animal fighting
- § 22-1101 — Definition and penalty
- § 22-1102 — Refusal or neglect of guardian to provide for child under 14 years of age
- § 22-1103 — Wilful neglect or refusal to support wife or minor child; punishment; order of allowance; recognizance; trial under original charge
- § 22-1104 — Evidence of marriage; competency of witnesses; proof of wilful desertion
- § 22-1105 — Weekly payments by Superintendent of Workhouse for each day’s confinement
- § 22-1106 — Collections by Clerk of Court to be deposited with Collector of Taxes and covered into Treasury
- § 22-1201 — Debt adjusting; prohibitions; exceptions; penalties; prosecutions for violations
- § 22-1211 — Tampering with a detection device
- § 22-1301 — Affrays
- § 22-1302 — Duelling challenges
- § 22-1303 — Assault for refusal to accept challenge
- § 22-1304 — Leaving District to give or receive challenge
- § 22-1305 — Prize fights and animal fights prohibited
- § 22-1306 — “Pugilistic encounter” defined
- § 22-1307 — Crowding, obstructing, or incommoding
- § 22-1308 — Playing games in streets
- § 22-1309 — Throwing stones or other missiles
- § 22-1310 — Urging dogs to fight or create disorder
- § 22-1311 — Allowing dogs to go at large
- § 22-1312 — Lewd, indecent, or obscene acts; sexual proposal to a minor
- § 22-1313 — Kindling bonfires
- § 22-1314 — Disturbing religious congregation
- § 22-1314.01 — Definitions
- § 22-1314.02 — Prohibited acts
- § 22-1315 — Interference with foreign diplomatic and consular offices, officers, and property — Prohibited
- § 22-1316 — Interference with foreign diplomatic and consular offices, officers, and property — Penalties; exception
- § 22-1317 — Flying fire balloons or parachutes
- § 22-1318 — Driving or riding on footways in public grounds
- § 22-1319 — False alarms and false reports; hoax weapons
- § 22-1320 — Sale of tobacco to minors under 18 years of age
- § 22-1321 — Disorderly conduct
- § 22-1322 — Rioting or inciting to riot
- § 22-1323 — Obstructing bridges connecting D.C. and Virginia
- § 22-1341 — Unlawful entry of a motor vehicle
- § 22-1401 — False pretenses
- § 22-1402 — Recordation of deed, contract, or conveyance with intent to extort money
- § 22-1403 — False personation before court, officers, notaries
- § 22-1404 — Falsely impersonating public officer or minister
- § 22-1405 — False personation of inspector of departments of District
- § 22-1406 — False personation of police officer
- § 22-1407 — Wearing or using insignia of certain organizations
- § 22-1408 — False certificate of acknowledgment
- § 22-1409 — Use of official insignia; penalty for unauthorized use
- § 22-1501 — Forgery
- § 22-1502 — Forging or imitating brands or packaging of goods
- § 22-1503 — Stealing, destroying, mutilating, secreting, or withholding will
- § 22-1504 — Decedent’s estate — Secreting or converting property, documents, or assets
- § 22-1505 — Taking away or concealing writings
- § 22-1506 — Sale or concealment by conditional vendee, with intent to defraud
- § 22-1507 — Fraud by use of slugs to operate coin-controlled mechanism
- § 22-1508 — Manufacture, sale, offer for sale, possession of slugs or device to operate coin-controlled mechanism
- § 22-1509 — “person” defined
- § 22-1510 — Making, drawing, or uttering check, draft, or order with intent to defraud; proof of intent; “credit” defined
- § 22-1511 — Fraudulent advertising
- § 22-1512 — Prosecution under § 22-1511
- § 22-1513 — Penalty under § 22-1511
- § 22-1514 — Fraudulent interference or collusion in jury selection
- § 22-1601 — Fornication
- § 22-1602 — Fornication
- § 22-1701 — Lotteries; promotion; sale or possession of tickets
- § 22-1702 — Possession of lottery or policy tickets
- § 22-1703 — Permitting sale of lottery tickets on premises
- § 22-1704 — Gaming; setting up gaming table; inducing play
- § 22-1705 — Gambling premises; definition; prohibition against maintaining; forfeiture; liens; deposit of moneys in Treasury; penalty; subsequent offenses
- § 22-1706 — Three-card monte and confidence games
- § 22-1707 — “Gaming table” defined
- § 22-1708 — Gambling pools and bookmaking; athletic contest defined
- § 22-1709 — Bucketing, and bucket-shopping and bucket-shops; definitions
- § 22-1710 — Penalty for bucketing or keeping bucket-shop
- § 22-1711 — Penalty for communicating, receiving, exhibiting, or displaying quotations of prices
- § 22-1712 — Bucketing; written statement to be furnished; contents
- § 22-1713 — Corrupt influence in connection with athletic contests
- § 22-1714 — Immunity of witnesses; record
- § 22-1715 — Presence in illegal establishments
- § 22-1716 — Statement of purpose
- § 22-1717 — Permissible gambling activities
- § 22-1718 — Advertising and promotion; sale and possession of lottery and numbers tickets and slips
- § 22-1801 — “Writing” and “paper” defined
- § 22-1802 — “Anything of value” defined
- § 22-1803 — Attempts to commit crime
- § 22-1804 — Second conviction
- § 22-1804a — Penalty for felony after at least 2 prior felony convictions
- § 22-1805 — Persons advising, inciting, or conniving at criminal offense to be charged as principals
- § 22-1805a — Conspiracy to commit crime
- § 22-1806 — Accessories after the fact
- § 22-1807 — Punishment for offenses not covered by provisions of Code
- § 22-1808 — Offenses committed beyond District
- § 22-1809 — Prosecutions
- § 22-1810 — Threatening to kidnap or injure a person or damage his property
- § 22-1831 — Definitions
- § 22-1832 — Forced labor
- § 22-1833 — Trafficking in labor or commercial sex acts
- § 22-1834 — Sex trafficking of children
- § 22-1835 — Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of human trafficking
- § 22-1836 — Benefitting financially from human trafficking
- § 22-1837 — Penalties
- § 22-1838 — Forfeiture
- § 22-1839 — Reputation or opinion evidence
- § 22-1840 — Civil action
- § 22-1841 — Data collection and dissemination
- § 22-1842 — Training program
- § 22-1843 — Public posting of human trafficking hotline
- § 22-1901 — Definition and penalty
- § 22-1931 — Obstructing, preventing, or interfering with reports to or requests for assistance from law enforcement agencies, medical providers, or child welfare agencies
- § 22-2001 — Definition and penalty; conspiracy
- § 22-201 — Definition and penalty
- § 22-2101 — Murder in the first degree — Purposeful killing; killing while perpetrating certain crimes
- § 22-2102 — Murder in the first degree — Placing obstructions upon or displacement of railroads
- § 22-2103 — Murder in the second degree
- § 22-2104 — Penalty for murder in first and second degrees
- § 22-2104.01 — Sentencing procedure for murder in the first degree
- § 22-2105 — Penalty for manslaughter
- § 22-2106 — Murder of law enforcement officer
- § 22-2107 — Penalty for solicitation of murder or other crime of violence
- § 22-2201 — Certain obscene activities and conduct declared unlawful; definitions; penalties; affirmative defenses; exception
- § 22-2301 — Definitions
- § 22-2302 — Prohibited acts
- § 22-2303 — Permitted activity
- § 22-2304 — Penalties
- § 22-2305 — Conduct of prosecutions
- § 22-2306 — Disclosure
- § 22-2401 — Perjury; subornation of perjury
- § 22-2402 — Perjury
- § 22-2403 — Subornation of perjury
- § 22-2404 — False swearing
- § 22-2405 — False statements
- § 22-2501 — Possession of implements of crime; penalty
- § 22-2511 — Presence in a motor vehicle containing a firearm
- § 22-2601 — Escape from institution or officer
- § 22-2602 — Misprisions by officers or employees of jail
- § 22-2603.01 — Definitions
- § 22-2603.02 — Unlawful possession of contraband
- § 22-2603.03 — Penalties
- § 22-2603.04 — Detainment power
- § 22-2701 — Engaging in prostitution or soliciting for prostitution
- § 22-2701.01 — Definitions
- § 22-2702 — Inmate or frequenter of house of ill fame
- § 22-2703 — Suspension of sentence; conditions; enforcement
- § 22-2704 — Abducting or enticing child from his or her home for purposes of prostitution; harboring such child
- § 22-2705 — Pandering; inducing or compelling an individual to engage in prostitution
- § 22-2706 — Compelling an individual to live life of prostitution against his or her will
- § 22-2707 — Procuring; receiving money or other valuable thing for arranging assignation
- § 22-2708 — Causing spouse or domestic partner to live in prostitution
- § 22-2709 — Detaining an individual in disorderly house for debt there contracted
- § 22-2710 — Procuring for house of prostitution
- § 22-2711 — Procuring for third persons
- § 22-2712 — Operating house of prostitution
- § 22-2713 — Premises occupied for lewdness, assignation, or prostitution declared nuisance
- § 22-2714 — Abatement of nuisance under § 22-2713 by injunction — Temporary injunction
- § 22-2715 — Abatement of nuisance under § 22-2713 by injunction — Trial; dismissal of complaint; prosecution; costs
- § 22-2716 — Violation of injunction granted under § 22-2714
- § 22-2717 — Order of abatement; sale of property; entry of closed premises punishable as contempt
- § 22-2718 — Disposition of proceeds of sale
- § 22-2719 — Bond for abatement; order for delivery of premises; effect of release
- § 22-2720 — Tax for maintaining such nuisance
- § 22-2721 — Granting immunity to witnesses
- § 22-2722 — Keeping bawdy or disorderly houses
- § 22-2723 — Property subject to seizure and forfeiture
- § 22-2724 — Impoundment
- § 22-2725 — Anti-Prostitution Vehicle Impoundment Proceeds Fund
- § 22-2731 — Prostitution free zone; penalty
- § 22-2751 — Definitions
- § 22-2752 — Engaging in an unlawful protest targeting a residence
- § 22-2801 — Robbery
- § 22-2802 — Attempt to commit robbery
- § 22-2803 — Carjacking
- § 22-2901 — Sale of unwholesome food — prohibited
- § 22-2902 — Sale of unwholesome food — “Food” defined
- § 22-2903 — Sale of unwholesome food — Inspection authorized
- § 22-2904 — Sale of unwholesome food — Council to make rules and regulations
- § 22-2905 — Sale of unwholesome food — Prosecutions for violations
- § 22-2906 — Sale of unwholesome food — Penalty
- § 22-2907 — Chapter supplemental to Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- § 22-3001 — Definitions
- § 22-3002 — First degree sexual abuse
- § 22-3003 — Second degree sexual abuse
- § 22-3004 — Third degree sexual abuse
- § 22-3005 — Fourth degree sexual abuse
- § 22-3006 — Misdemeanor sexual abuse
- § 22-3007 — Defense to sexual abuse
- § 22-3008 — First degree child sexual abuse
- § 22-3009 — Second degree child sexual abuse