District of Columbia Code Division I. Government of District. § 4-501. Definitions.

(A) Victim; or

(B) Secondary victim.

(C) Repealed.

(A) Means a source of benefits or compensation available to a claimant for economic loss resulting from a crime; and

(B) Includes payments or benefits from:

(A) An act of terrorism, as described in § 22-3153;

(B) Arson, as described in § 22-301;

(C) Assault with intent to kill, rob, or poison, or to commit first degree sexual abuse, second degree sexual abuse or child sexual abuse, as described in § 22-401;

(D) Assault with intent to commit mayhem or with a dangerous weapon, as described in § 22-402;

(E) Assault with intent to commit any offense, as described in § 22-403;

(F) Assault or threatened assault in a menacing manner; stalking, as described in § 22-404;

(G) Aggravated assault, as described in § 22-404.01;

(H) Assault on member of police force, campus or university special police, or fire department, as described in § 22-405;

(I) Burglary, as described in § 22-801;

(J) Carjacking, as described in § 22-2803(a)(1); or

(K) Armed carjacking, as described in § 22-2803(b)(1);

(L) Criminal abuse of a vulnerable adult or elderly person, as described in § 22-933;

(M) Financial exploitation of a vulnerable adult or elderly person, as described in § 22-933.01;

(N) Criminal negligence, as described in § 22-934;

(O) Cruelty to animals, as described in § 22-1001, when committed against the victim's animal;

(P) Cruelty to children, as described in § 22-1101;

(Q) The following offenses that resulted in death or bodily injury to a person, notwithstanding that the offender lacked the capacity to commit the offense by reason of infancy, insanity, intoxication, or otherwise:

(R) Manufacture, transfer, use, possession, or transportation of Molotov cocktails, or other explosives for unlawful purposes, as described in § 22-4515a;

(S) Forced labor, as described in § 22-1832;

(T) Trafficking in labor or commercial sex acts, as described in Code § 22-1833;

(U) Sex trafficking of children, as described in § 22-1834;

(V) Unlawful conduct with respect to documents in furtherance of human trafficking, as described in § 22-1835;

(W) Benefitting financially from human trafficking, as described in § 22-1836;

(X) Kidnapping, as described in § 22-2001;

(Y) Malicious burning, destruction, or injury of another's property, as described in § 22-303, that:

(Z) Mayhem or maliciously disfiguring, as described in § 22-406;

(AA) Manslaughter, as described in § 22-2105;

(BB) Murder in the first degree (purposeful killing; killing while perpetrating certain crimes), as described in § 22-2101;

(CC) Murder in the first degree (placing obstructions upon or displacement of railroads), as described in § 22-2102;

(DD) Murder in the second degree, as described in § 22-2103;

(EE) Murder of law enforcement officer, as described in § 22-2106;

(FF) Negligent homicide, as described in § 22-2203.01;

(GG) Where a person was compelled to engage in prostitution:

(HH) Rioting or inciting to riot, as described in § 22-1322;

(II) Robbery, as described in § 22-2801;

(JJ) Attempt to commit robbery, as described in § 22-2802;

(KK) First degree sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3002;

(LL) Second degree sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3003;

(MM) Third degree sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3004;

(NN) Fourth degree sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3005;

(OO) Misdemeanor sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3006;

(PP) First degree child sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3008);

(QQ) Second degree child sexual abuse, as described in § 22-3009;

(RR) First degree sexual abuse of a minor, as described in § 22-3009.01;

(SS) Second degree sexual abuse of a minor, as described in § 22-3009.02;

(TT) First degree sexual abuse of a secondary education student, as described in § 22-3009.03;

(UU) Second degree sexual abuse of a secondary education student, as described in § 22-3009.04;

(VV) Enticing a child or minor, as described in § 22-3010;

(WW) Misdemeanor sexual abuse of a child or minor, as described in § 22-3010.01;

(XX) Arranging for a sexual contact with a real or fictitious child, as described in § 22-3010.02;

(YY) First degree sexual abuse of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, as described in § 22-3013;

(ZZ) Second degree sexual abuse of a ward, patient, client, arrestee, detainee, or prisoner, as described in section § 22-3014;

(AAA) First degree sexual abuse of a patient or client, as described in § 22-3015;

(BBB) Second degree sexual abuse of a patient or client, as described in § 22-3016;

(CCC) Sexual performances using minors, as described in § 22-3102;

(DDD) Stalking, as described in § 22-3133;

(EEE) Threats to do bodily harm, as described in § 22-407;

(FFF) Voyeurism, as described in § 22-3531; and

(GGG) Use, dissemination, or detonation of a weapon of mass destruction, as described in § 22-3155.

(7)(A) “Economic loss” means:

(B) “Economic loss” does not mean:

(A) To whom the offender is or was married;

(B) With whom the offender is or was in a domestic partnership;

(C) With whom the offender has a child in common; or

(D) With whom the offender is, or was, or is seeking to be in a romantic, dating, or sexual relationship.

(A) Ambulance, hospital, surgical, medical, nursing, dental, optometric, ophthalmologic, chiropractic, podiatric, in-patient mental health, and pregnancy-related care;

(B) Medical, dental, hearing, and surgical supplies;

(C) Crutches and prosthetic devices taken, lost, or destroyed during the commission of the crime, as well as new prosthetic devices which became necessary as a direct result of the crime and training in their use;

(D) Out-patient mental health counseling expenses which became necessary as a direct result of the crime and which are provided by a:

(E) Veterinary expenses in claims where the victim's animal was a victim of cruelty to animals, as described [in] § 22-1001.

(A) Victim's spouse, children, including biological, step, foster, and adopted, grandchildren, parents, stepparents, siblings, half siblings, or spouse's parents;

(B) Person who resides in the victim's household at the time of the crime or at the time of the discovery of the crime;

(C) Person who is a survivor of a victim and who was wholly or partially dependent upon the victim for care and support at the time of the commission of the crime upon which the claim is based, including a child of the victim born after the victim's death;

(D) Person who legally assumes the obligation, or who voluntarily pays the medical expenses, or in the event of death caused by the crime, funeral and burial expenses, incurred as a direct result thereof;

(E) Person with close ties to the victim; or

(F) Person who witnessed the crime.

(A) A crime;

(B) Assisting lawfully to apprehend a person reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit a crime;

(C) Assisting a person against whom a crime has been committed or attempted, if the assistance was rendered in a reasonable manner; or

(D) Attempting to prevent the commission of a crime.

(E) Repealed.