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Show Landlords Cautioned Against OPA Violations I 5 I Landlords in Utah's rent con-trol con-trol areas were cautioned this week against circumventing OPA tenant eviction restrictions, but at the same time were advised .that the regulations permit evictions evic-tions of tenants on several other 'grounds, by Glenn D. Reese, OPA district rent officer. Numerous complaints have been received by the rent office alleging alleg-ing landlords have asked tenants to move so the owners could occupy oc-cupy the accommodations, he said. However, the landlords have then failed to move in and have shortly short-ly re-rented to other tenants. Because of the frequency of this compliant, OPA officials surmise sur-mise that in many instances the landloards have not acted in good faith and have thereby violated the rent regulations. In outlining the proper procedure proced-ure for removing a tenant, the rent officer stated that OPA rent regulations establish seven grounds upon which tenants may be re-j quired to move: Remodeling personal per-sonal occupancy by the landlord; non-payment of rent; tenant failure fail-ure to renew the lease; tenant refusal of access to the landlord; violation of tenancy obligations or for committing a nuisance; expiration ex-piration of a tenant's lease may cause removal of sub-tenants. However, in all such cases the landlord is resuired to set forth was raised in honor of Kearns civ-tenant's civ-tenant's notice to vacate and file a copy at the area rent office. "We have no intentions of allowing al-lowing the regulations to be used as a shield to protect either landlords land-lords or tenants who refuse to abide by reasnable standards of conduct or who fail to abide by their rental agreements," Reese continued. "At the same time, it must be made clear to all concern-jed concern-jed that we will not contenance circumvention of the regulations. v 1 |