No wooden or frame building erected, altered, or converted after June 1, 1910, for use as a human habitation shall exceed 3 stories or exceed 40 feet in height to the roof.
D.C. Code § 6-601.06
Frame dwellings
June 1, 1910, 36 Stat. 454, ch. 263, § 6
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