(G) Charges.
(1) The Board shall require every landlord of rent controlled or vacancy decontrolled housing accommodations to pay an annual charge for services provided by the Board under this Section. Such charge shall be for such services as, without limitation, the Board’s cost of maintaining records regarding the landlord’s housing accommodations; the Board’s calculations of the landlord’s annual general adjustment of maximum rent; and the Board’s developing, mailing and otherwise providing printed information and forms regarding rent control, vacancy decontrol and other related matters. Such charge shall be established by the Board by regulation on a fiscal or calendar year basis and shall be charged per individual housing accommodation, whether such housing accommodation is occupied or unoccupied. The Board may establish a charge by subclass for such housing accommodations. Any such annual charge established by the Board shall be reflective of the costs incurred by the Board in providing services under this Section; provided, however, that in no event shall such annual charge be less than $12 nor more than $36 per year per individual housing accommodation. The annual charge shall be payable to the city by the landlord, and the Board shall establish by regulation the time, place and manner for such payment. The Board shall ensure that all charges collected pursuant to this Section are deposited with the Collector-Treasurer. After such payment has been made, the landlord may charge all or part of the annual charge for each such housing accommodation to the tenants thereof. For purposes of this Section, if the landlord so acts, said charge shall be rent, as defined by Subsection 10-1.2.
(2) If a landlord has failed to pay such charge as required, all petitions, applications or other like submissions filed with the Board by such landlord requesting Board action shall be deemed defective and the Administrator shall administratively dismiss such petition, application or submission.
(3) A general adjustment of maximum rent for any class of rent controlled housing accommodation shall not be applicable and an increase shall not be authorized for such housing accommodation where the landlord fails to pay the annual charge required herein for such housing accommodation. Notwithstanding anything stated in this Section to the contrary, the Administrator may allow a petition, application or other submission to go forward, and may allow a general adjustment of maximum rent to be applicable and a rent increase to be authorized, if a landlord who has not paid the charge required herein shows, and the Administrator finds, good cause for such nonpayment.
(Ord. 1972 c. 19; Ord. 1974 c. 13; Ord. 1975 c. 15; CBC 1975 Ord. T10 § 2; Ord. 1979 cs. 29, 37; Ord. 1981 c. 8; Ord. 1982 cs. 15, 16, 17, 26, 37; Ord. 1983 cs. 1, 9, 17, 23, 33; Ord. 1984 cs. 7, 29-34; CBC 1985 10-2.2; Ord. 1988 c. 9 § 10[e]; Ord. 1988 c. 11 § 5; Ord. 1989 c. 1 § 2; Ord. 1989 c. 7 § 1; Ord. 1991 c. 2 § 1)
Editor’s note:
Ordinance 1987 c. 6 § 6 is as follows: