No person shall provide or expose, or permit in any place under his or her control the provision or exposure, for common use or reuse, whether by purchase, rental, exchange, as a service, or by any other similar arrangement, any article that may come into intimate personal contact with its user, unless the following requirements are met:
As used in this section, the phrase "article which may come into intimate personal contact with the user" shall mean any article that in normal use may reasonably be expected to transmit disease germs, parasites, ectoparasites, or filth from one user to the next user. This phrase shall not include any article primarily intended for use, or used, manually.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section or failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300).
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 25, r. 25-H200