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SEC. 12. SEPARABILITY.-If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

SEO. 13. APPROPRIATION.-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, to be paid out of money in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 14. SHORT TITLE.--This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act".

Approved, December 2, 1941.

[PUBLIC LAW 715-77TH CONGRESS]
[CHAPTER 564-2D SESSION]
[H. R. 7235]

AN ACT

To amend the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 5 (b) of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act (Public, Numbered 327, Seventy-seventh Congress), be amended by striking out the period at the end of said section and by inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the word "or" and by adding immediately thereafter a new paragraph reading as follows:

"(5) The housing accommodations are nonhousekeeping, furnished, accommodations located within a single dwelling unit not used as a rooming or boarding house as defined by this Act and the remaining portion of which dwelling unit is occupied by the lessor or his immediate family.", so that section 5 (b) of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act as so amended shall read as follows:

"(b) No action or proceeding to recover possession of housing accommodations shall be maintainable by any landlord against any tenant, notwithstanding that the tenant has no lease or that his lease has expired, so long as the tenant continues to pay the rent to which the landlord is entitled, unless

"(1) The tenant is (a) violating an obligation of his tenancy (other than an obligation to pay rent higher than rent permitted under this Act or any regulation or order thereunder applicable to the housing accommodations involved or an obligation to surrender possession of such accommodations) or (b) is committing a nuisance or using the housing accommodations for an immoral or illegal purpose or for other than living or dwelling purposes, or

"(2) The landlord seeks in good faith to recover possession of the property for his immediate and personal use and occupancy as a dwelling, or

"(3) The landlord has in good faith contracted in writing to sell the property for immediate and personal use and occupancy as a dwelling by the purchaser and that the contract of sale contains a representation by the purchaser that the property is being purchased by him for such immediate and personal use and Occupancy, or

"(4) The landlord seeks in good faith to recover possession for the immediate purpose of substantially altering, remodeling, or demolishing the property and replacing it with new construction, the plans for which altered, remodeled, or new construction having been filed with and approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or

"(5) The housing accommodations are nonhousekeeping, furnished, accommodations located within a single dwelling unit

not used as a rooming or boarding house as defined by this Act and the remaining portion of which dwelling unit is occupied by the lessor or his immediate family."

SEO. 2. That section 7 (b) of such Act be amended by deleting therefrom the word "two" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "four" so that the third sentence of said section 7 (b) as amended shall read as follows: "For the purposes of this Act the term 'rooming or boarding house' means a house in which living quarters are rented by the householder to more than four persons."

Approved, September 26, 1942.

[PUBLIC LAW 242-79TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 514-1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 3979]

AN ACT

To extend for the period of one year the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to regulate rents in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1941, as amended, is further amended by striking in section 1 (b) thereof the figure "1945" and inserting in lieu thereof "1946".

Approved December 3, 1945.

[PUBLIC LAW 472-79TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 521-2D SESSION]

[S. 2219]

AN ACT

To extend for the period of one year the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to regulate rents in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1941, as amended, is further amended by striking out in section 1 (b) thereof the figure "1946" and inserting in lieu thereof "1947".

Approved June 29, 1946.

(394)

[PUBLIC LAW 309-80TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 429-1ST SESSION]

[H. R. 3131]

AN ACT

To extend for three months the provisions of the District of Columbia Emergency Rent Act, approved December 2, 1941, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section í (b) of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate rents in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1941, as amended (D. C. Code, 1940 edition, sec. 45-1601), is hereby amended by striking out "December 31, 1947" and inserting in lieu thereof "March 81, 1948".

Approved August 1, 1947.

[PUBLIC LAW 322-80TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 442-1ST SESSION]

[S. 1590]

AN ACT

To amend the District of Columbia rent control law so as to provide that schools and universities may recover possession of housing accommodations in certain

cases.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) of section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate rents in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1941, as amended, is amended by (1) striking out the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the word "or", and (2) adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:

"(6) The landlord, being a recognized school or an accredited nonprofit university, has a bona fide need for the premises for educational, research, administrative, or dormitory use.' ""

Approved August 1, 1947.

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