Statutes, codes, and regulations
District of Columbia Official Code
Division IV - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE AND PRISONERSTitle 24 - PRISONERS AND THEIR TREATMENT
Chapter 7 - REHABILITATION OF USERS OF NARCOTICS
Section 24-702 - Definitions

D.C. Code § 24-702

Download
PDF
Current through codified legislation effective September 18, 2024
Section 24-702 - Definitions

For the purpose of §§ 24-701 to 24-711:

(1) The term "drug user" means any person, including a person under 18 years of age, notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 23 of Title 16, who uses any habit-forming narcotic drugs so as to endanger the public morals, health, safety, or welfare, or who is so far addicted to the use of such habit-forming narcotic drugs as to have lost the power of self-control with reference to his addiction.
(2) The term "narcotic drugs" shall have the same meaning as that given to such term by § 4731 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
(3) The term "patient" means any person ordered to appear before the Mayor, pursuant to the provisions of § 24-703.
(4) The term "Mayor" means the Mayor of the District of Columbia, sitting as a Board, or his designated agent or agents.

D.C. Code § 24-702

June 24, 1953, 67 Stat. 77, ch. 149, § 3; July 24, 1956, 70 Stat. 609, ch. 676, title I, § 101; July 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 590, Pub. L. 91-358, title I, § 170.