| Show Rent Filing Limit Set For May 15 O 0 P A Warns Owners Glen Issuing a final warning D. D Reese OPA state rent officer Thursday cautioned all persons in I I Utah rent controlled areas to regis regis- register register ter housing accommodations they I have rented rent d or arc are offering for rent with the OPA 0 PArent rent offices by May MayIS 15 IS or face full penalties of the law Mr Reese said the rent regula regula- regulation I t tion lion requires owners of all living I accommodations to register including ing not only apartments hotel to rooms tourist courts and other accommodations customarily rent rent- rented rented ed ed but also houses that have never been rented before as well as spare rooms in private homes Mr Reese said that in the past OPA has been inclined to be len len- lenient lenient v when it has discovered land- land landlords landlords landlords lords whose rental properties have ha hanot not been registered but that so many miny complaints of f exorbitant rents by unregistered property owners have come to his attention in recent weeks that his office is compelled to take drastic action 0 Accordingly we have set May 15 as the last day on which land- land landlords landlords landlords lords may ma expect lenient consider consider- consideration consideration consideration for late registration of their properties Mr Reese continued I IOn I On May 17 we will launch an ex- ex extensive extensive extensive compliance drive with 0 O P PA A A. personnel After that date whenever unregistered property comes to our attention either cither as a a result of surveys by 0 O P A per 1 per per-I per per- personnel I or as a result of complaints by tenants we shall deal with the owners as violators of the price control law Jaw and prosecutions will willbe willbe be instituted for the invocation of oft t full penalties of the law I Mr rr Reese mentioned a specific case of a tenant who was forced to pay for a modest five room house Later on the tenants tenant's pro pro- protest protest I test the landlord had twice reduced ed the rent finally to 80 per month But feeling that the rental was still too high the tenant complained to tol the t e rent office whereupon it was l' l f t. t discovered that the house had not c been J registered Registration of rental properties in Utah county count should be sent to the area fice in the Farmers and nd Merchants bank building Provo Pro Utah Properties in Salt Lake and the southern end of Davis is county should be register register- registered ed with Salt Lake office in the At At- Atlas Atlas Atlas las building Property registrations for northern Davis county Morgan Weber and Box Elder counties should be sent to the rent office First Security Bank building iii in in Ogden Utah |
