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PUBLIC LAW 681-AUG- 28, 1954
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by subsection (a) of this section shall constitute a quorum, and a majority vote of the members present shall be required in connection with any act of either of the said boards. No person shall act as a member of either of the said boards who has any property interest, direct or indirect, in his own right or through relatives or kin, in the building the sanitary condition of which is under consideration. " (c) The Commissioners shall designate a number of real property mJ^b'"/shSu"* ^°' owning residents of the District of Columbia, not employed by the government of the District of Columbia or the Government of the United States, each of whom from time to time shall be designated by the Commissioners to act as a member or an alternate meniber of the Condemnation Review Board established under the authority of subsection (a) of this section. Each such person shall be entitled to ^^^' a fee of $25 for each day he is actually engaged in discharging his duties as a member of said Board, or as an alternate member acting in the place of a member. " (d) The several provisions of sections 1, 2, and 3 of the Act approved April 16, 1932 (47 Stat. 86; secs. 4^601 to 4-603, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), shall be applicable to and enforceable in any proceeding conducted under the authority of this Act. Each person acting as a member of either of the boards required to be established by this section, and each alternate member when acting in the stead of the member for whom he is alternate, is hereby authorized to administer oaths to witnesses summoned in any proceeding conducted by either of the said boards. Any fee which may be paid any witness summoned to appear before either of the said boards shall be assessed as a tax against the property the condition of which is under investigation, such tax to be collected in the same manner as general taxes are collected in the District of Columbia: Provided, That whenever any order of condemnation is vacated or set aside, either by the Condemnation Review Board or by a court, the witness fee authorized by this subsection to be assessed against the property affected by such order of condemnation shall not be so assessed, but shall be paid by the Government of the District of Columbia. "SEC. 3. Whenever the Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary,ocedi^e'""°"°'* Buildings shall find that any building or part of building is in such insanitary condition as to endanger the health or lives of the occupants thereof or persons living in the vicinity, the owner of such building shall be served with a notice requiring him to show cause, within a time to be specified in such notice, why such building or part of building should not be condemned. The time to be fixed in such notice shall not be less than ten days, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, after the date of service of said notice, unless the Board shall find that the insanitary condition of such building or part of building is such as to cause immediate danger to the health or lives of the occupants thereof or of persons living in the vicinity, in which case a lesser time may be specified in said notice. If within the time to show order, cause fixed by the Board, the owner shall fail to show cause sufficient in the opinion of the Board to prevent the condemnation of such building or part of building, the Board shall issue an order condemning such building or part of building and ordering the same to be put into sanitary condition or to be demolished and removed within a time to be specified in said order of condemnation, and shall cause a copy of such order to be served on the owner and a copy to be affixed to the building or part of building condemned. The Board shall give the owner reasonable time within which to put the building in sanitary condition, but such time shall be not less than six months after the date of service of said order on said owner, unless the Board shall find that the condition of said premises is such as to cause immediate
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