District of Columbia Code Division VIII. General Laws. § 47-2842. Council of the District of Columbia may regulate, modify, or eliminate license requirements.

(a) The Council of the District of Columbia is authorized and empowered, when in its discretion such is deemed advisable, to require a license of other businesses or callings not listed in this chapter or Chapter 30 of this title and which, in its judgment, require inspection, supervision, regulation, or any other activity or expenditure by any municipal agencies; and the Council of the District of Columbia is further authorized and empowered to fix the license fee therefor in such amount as, in its judgment, will be not less than the cost to the District of Columbia of such inspection, supervision, regulation, or other activity or expenditure. The Council is further authorized and empowered in its discretion to modify any of the provisions of this chapter or Chapter 30 of this title so far as eliminating therefrom any business or calling in this chapter or Chapter 30 of this title required to be licensed, and the Council is further authorized and empowered in its discretion to raise or lower the amount of the license fee provided in this chapter or Chapter 30 of this title, when in its judgment such increase or decrease is warranted.

(b) The fee for an original or renewal license for motor vehicle driving instructors shall be $78.

(c) Repealed.

(d) The Council shall make such regulations, modifications, or eliminations of licensing requirements consistent with the basic business license system as set forth in subchapter I-A of this chapter.