{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-25-609","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 25-609","heading":"ANC comments.","body":"(a)\nThe affected ANC shall notify the Board in writing of its recommendations, if any, and serve a copy upon the applicant or licensee not less than 7 calendar days before the date of the hearing. Whether the ANC participates as a protestant, the Board shall give great weight to the ANC recommendations as required by subchapter V of Chapter 3 of Title 1. The applicant or licensee shall have the opportunity to respond to the ANC recommendations in a manner to be prescribed in the rules adopted by the Board.\n\n(b)\nIn the event that an affected ANC submits a settlement agreement to the Board on a protested license application, the Board, upon its approval of the settlement agreement, shall dismiss any protest of a group of no fewer than 5 residents or property owners meeting the requirements of § 25-601(2) [§ 25-601(a)(2)]. The Board shall not dismiss a protest filed by another affected ANC, a citizens association, or an abutting property owner meeting the requirements of § 25-601(3) [§ 25-601(a)(3)] upon the Board’s approval of an ANC’s settlement agreement submission.","path":["Title 25. Alcoholic Beverages. [Enacted title]","Chapter 6. Protests, Referendum, and Complaints."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/25-609","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"562854983fc7602c774315ddb0aaaf8dff761fcf449b6b3dbbdd239e84b2c5e0","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-25-608","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-25-701"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}