The Board for the Condemnation of Insanitary Buildings (BCIB) is charged, under DC Official Code Section 6-901, et seq. (2001 Edition), with:

• Examining the sanitary condition of all buildings in the District
• Receiving referrals from other agencies, citizens and inspectors
• Inspecting insanitary building conditions and reporting them to BCIB meetings
  Determining which buildings are so insanitary that they endanger the health or lives of occupants or people in the vicinity
• Serving owners with Notices to Show Cause, within 10 days, why their buildings should not be condemned
  Holding hearings, if owners ask for them
• Issuing Orders of Condemnation to owners to correct insanitary conditions, within 30 days, by changing, repairing, making habitable, razing, or removing buildings
• Making buildings safe and sanitary or razed and removed—if owners fail to fix conditions—and assessing corrective action costs as special taxes on the property