What you need, before anyone tells you.
Charter reads the municipal, county, and state code that applies to a specific address and returns every obligation it creates — conditioned on what the property actually is and actually has.
Determination is conditional, so Charter is too.
A grease interceptor permit attaches to a commercial kitchen. An assembly permit attaches above an occupant load. A CPO certification attaches to a water feature. Charter evaluates every condition against the property profile rather than handing you a generic checklist to filter yourself.
Where a condition cannot be resolved from code alone, the obligation is returned as likely required and marked as such. A confident wrong answer closes a business.
Washington DC restaurant · seeded obligation set
Basic Business License — Food services
DC Code § 47-2851.02(a)
Sales and Use Tax Registration
DC Code § 47-2026(a)
Certificate of Occupancy
DCMR 12-A § 110.3
Food Establishment License
DCMR 25-A § 4300.1
Certified Food Protection Manager
DCMR 25-A § 203.1
Retailer's License Class C/Restaurant
DC Code § 25-113(b)(3)(A)(i)
ABC Manager's License
DC Code § 25-701(a)
Sidewalk Cafe Endorsement
DC Code § 25-113.01(c)(1)
Hood Fire-Suppression System
DCMR 12-A § 904.2.2
Assembly Occupancy Classification (Group A-2)
DCMR 12-A § 303.1.1
Automatic Sprinkler System
DCMR 12-A § 903.2.1.2
Grease Abatement System
DCMR 21 § 1502.16
Jurisdiction is resolved before a single obligation is evaluated.
Two restaurants four miles apart do not carry the same list. The address decides which code applies, and everything downstream is conditioned on it — which is why Charter asks for an address rather than an industry.
- Cited to the section
- Every line names the code, the section, and the agency that administers it. Verification is a matter of reading, not of trust.
- Confidence is visible
- Confirmed obligations read as fact. Anything Charter could not resolve reads as likely required and is flagged for review, because a confident wrong answer closes a business.
See the list for one of your addresses.
No account required. The audit names every obligation Charter determines, with its citation.
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