D.C. Code § 9-1203.07: Company to pay portion of cost of paving or repairing streets.

If and when the Mayor of the District of Columbia shall decide to pave or repave any of the streets over or along which tracks are authorized to be constructed, the railroad company shall be required to bear the expense of the paving and/or repairs to pavements between the rails and on either side of the tracks for a distance of 2 feet.