(a) Except for security, emergency, rescue, or armored vehicles, all passenger automobiles, as defined in the Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980, approved October 10, 1980 (94 Stat. 1824; 15 U.S.C. § 2001(2)), purchased or leased by the District government shall have an Environmental Protection Agency estimated miles per gallon average of not less than 22 miles per gallon, and shall not be a sports utility vehicle.

(b) The District of Columbia government shall not purchase sport utility vehicles for government use; provided that this section shall not apply to security, emergency rescue, snow removal or armored vehicles.

(Oct. 19, 2000, D.C. Law 13-172, § 3402, 47 DCR 6308; Mar. 25, 2003, D.C. Law 14-231, § 2, 49 DCR 9762; June 12, 2003, D.C. Law 14-310, § 17, 50 DCR 1092; Mar. 13, 2004, D.C. Law 15-105, § 3, 51 DCR 881.)

D.C. Law 14-231 rewrote the section heading which formerly read: “EPA Miles Per Gallon Requirement”; redesignated the text as subsection (a); in the newly designated subsec. (a), inserted “, and shall not be a sports utility vehicle” before the period; and added subsec. (b).

D.C. Law 14-310 made no changes in the text, but made the amendments by D.C. Law 14-231 applicable prospectively to October 1, 2004.

D.C. Law 15-105, substituted “emergency, rescue” for “emergency rescue”.

For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 3402 of the Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2000 (D.C. Act 13-438, October 20, 2000, 47 DCR 8740).

Section 17 of D.C. Law 14-310 added section 2a to D.C. Law 14-231 to read as follows:

“Sec. 2a. This act [D.C. Law 14-231] shall apply as of October 1, 2004.”