Chapter 116. To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to close certain streets, roads, or highways in the District of Columbia rendered useless or unnecessary by reason of the opening, extension, widening, or straightening, in accordance with the highway plan of other streets, roads, or highway
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CHAP. 116.— An Act To authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to close certain streets, roads, or highways in the District of Columbia rendered useless or unnecessary by reason of the opening, extension, widening, or straightening, in accordance with the highway plan of other streets, roads, or highways in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. January 30, 1925.[[S. 1179](/us/bill/68/s/1179).][[Public, No. 349](/us/pl/68/349).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * District of Columbia.Designated streets, roads, etc., to be closed.
That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to close Broad Branch Road between Jocelyn and Thirty-first Streets, Piney Branch Road between Spring Road and Blair Road, Pierce Mill Road between Tilden Street and Wisconsin Avenue, Belt Road between Wisconsin Avenue and Chevy Chase Circle, Colfax Street through square 712, Queen’s Chapel Road between Bladensburg Road and Irving Street, Grant Road between Wisconsin Avenue and Connecticut Avenue, and such other streets, Other streets, etc., to conform with highways plans.roads, or highways or parts of streets, roads, or highways, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, become useless or unnecessary by reason of the opening, extension, widening, or straightening, in accordance with the highway plan of a street, road, or highway in the District of Columbia by dedica800Title to abutting owners.tion, purchase, or condemnation; the title to the part or parts of the streets, roads, or highways so closed to revert to the abutting property *Proviso*.Consent of property owners to be obtained.owners: *Provided*, That the written consent of the owners of all the property abutting on the street, road, or highway or a part of street, road, or highway proposed to be closed be obtained.
Sec. 2. Plats, etc., to be prepared and approved by Commissioners. That whenever a street, road, or highway, or any part of a street, road, or highway is sought to be closed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, a plat showing the street, road, or high-way or part of the street, road, or highway to be closed by the said commissioners, as provided herein, shall be prepared by the surveyor of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and ordered by the said commissioners to be recorded in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, Closed areas apportioned to abutting owners.and the area to be apportioned to each property owner abutting on the street, road, or highway or part of street, road, or highway closed by the said commissioners, as provided herein, shall be determined by the said commissioners and shall be shown by plats and computations prepared by the surveyor of the District of Columbia, and said apportioned areas shall be assessed on the books of the assessor of the District of Columbia the same in all respects as other private property in the District of Columbia.
Approved, January 30, 1925.