The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized, from time to time, without expense to the United States, to cause to be collected into compact form all the laws and ordinances in force in the District having relation and applicable to police and health, and to publish the same in a form easily accessible to all members of the community as the Police Code of the District.
D.C. Code § 5-103.01
Municipal ordinances and regulations, proof, see § 14-505. Protection of life, health, and property, rules and regulations, see § 1-303.03. .