Ordinance 73-1974 ORDINANCE NO. 73-1974
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING EXISTING CHAPTER 17A OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
AND ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER 17A OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, PROVIDING FOR
THE REGULATION OF RENTS OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS ;
DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF AN EMERGENCY REQUIRING
SUCH REGULATION; IMPOSING A MAXIMUM OF RENT
CHARGEABLE FOR HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS ; FREEZING
RENTALS FOR HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS AS OF OCTOBER
1, 1973 ; CREATING THE OFFICE OF RENT DIRECTOR;
AND SETTING FORTH HIS RIGHTS AND POWERS , INCLUDING
THE ADOPTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS ; THE ENTRY OF
ORDERS FIXING MAXIMUM RENTS; PROVIDING FOR STATUTORY
TENANCY; THE RECOVERY OF OVERCHARGES; AND PROVIDING
PENALTIES
SECTION 1. - Declaration and Findings
(a) The Council of the City of Miami Beach finds that
a public emergency exists= in the City caused by a shortage
of dwellings and resulting in speculative, unwarranted and
abnormal increases in rents; that unless residential rents
and evictions are regulated and controlled, serious threats
will result to the public health, safety and general welfare
of the citizens of Miami Beach; that to prevent such perils
to the public health, safety and general welfare, preventive
action through enactment of local legislation by the Council
is imperative; that such action, as a temporary measure until
it is determined that the emergency no longer exists is
necessary to prevent exactions of unjust, unreasonable and
oppressive rents and to forestall profiteering, speculation
and other disruptive practices; and that in order to prevent
uncertainty, hardship and dislocation, the provisions of
this ordinance are declared to be necessary to protect the
public health, safety and general welfare.
(b) Existing Chapter 17A of the Code of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida, is deleted and this Ordinance is
substituted therefor.
SECTION 2 . - Short Title
This ordinance shall be known and may be cited as the
Rent Law.
SECTION 3. - Definitions
Unless a different meaning clearly appears from the
context, the following terms shall mean and include :
(a) Administration - The Miami Beach Rent Control
Administration.
(b) Director - The Director of the Miami Beach Rent
Control Administration. The Director shall be appointed by
the City Manager and shall receive a salary in accordance
with the prevailing salary structure under the Executive
Compensation Plan of the Unclassified Salary Ordinance No.
1605. The City Manager shall establish offices, purchase
supplies and equipment and authorize the Director to employ
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such personnel, subject to the approval of the City Manager,
as may be necessary for the performance of his functions
under this Ordinance. The Director shall submit a semi-
annual report to the City Manager for transmittal to the
City Council.
(c) Housing Accommodation - A residential unit in
any building containing three or more residential rental
units in which said units are occupied or intended to be
occupied by one or more individuals as a residence, home,
sleeping place, boarding house, hotel, motel, lodging
house, or rooming house, together with the land and build-
ings appurtenant thereto; and all services, privileges,
furnishings, furniture and facilities supplied in connection
with the occupation thereof, including garage and parking
facilities. The term "housing accommodation" shall not
include :
(1) Dwelling units located in a structure
completed on or after October 1, 1973. Where an occupancy
permit is required to be issued, there shall be a rebuttable
presumption that completion is the date of issuance of the
permit. If no such permit is required, completion shall be
the date the housing accommodation is offered for rent in
habitable condition.
(2) Dwelling units located in a boarding house,
hotel, motel, lodging hotise or rooming house except where
the occupants thereof, on the freeze date, have been
occupying their housing accommodation under a lease whose
term is not less than one year, or have been in continuous
occupancy for at least one year, or for which rent has been
paid for one continuous year. Upon vacancy, the unit shall
no longer be subject to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(3) A hospital, convent, monastery, asylum, public
institution, college or school dormitory, or any institution
operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes
on a non-profit basis.
(4) Dwelling units subject to condominium or
cooperative ownership.
(5) Public housing accommodations.
(6) Housing accommodations resulting from sub-
stantial demolition commencing on or after October 1, 1973,
or where such work has been in progress on October 1, 1973.
Except where such work had been in progress prior to October
1, 1973, if the building had been vacated by other than
voluntary surrender of any or all of the housing accommodations
or the landlord had failed to comply with Section 5 of this
Ordinance or as the result of harassment, the resulting
newly created housing accommodations shall remain subject to
the provisions of this Ordinance and the rental for each
housing accommodation shall be established by the Director.
(d) Freeze Date - October 1, 1973.
(e) Freeze Date Maximum Rent - The maximum lawful rent
for the use of housing accommodations, including the dwelling
space and all essential services, furniture, furnishings and
equipment provided or required to be provided on the 1st day
of October, 1973, or, if never previously rented, on the date
of first renting after October 1st, 1973. If an accommodation
was vacant on that date, the maximum rent shall be the rent
last collected.
No landlord shall be required to refund any rent
collected prior to the effective date of this Ordinance
which may have been in excess of the maximum rent authorized
pursuant to this Ordinance.
(f) Rent - Consideration, including any bonus, benefit
or gratuity, demanded or received, for or in connection with,
the use or occupancy of housing accommodations.
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(g) Landlord - An owner, lessor, sublessor, assignee
or other person receiving or entitled to receive rent for
the use or occupancy of any housing accommodation or an agent
of any of the foregoing.
(h) Tenant - A tenant, subtenant, lessee, sublessee or
other person entitled to the possession, use or occupancy
of any housing accommodation.
SECTION 4 . - General Powers and Duties of the Director
The Director may adopt, promulgate, amend or rescind
such rules , regulations , and orders as he may deem necessary
and proper to effectuate the purposes of this Ordinance.
(a) (1) The Director or any officer or agent desig-
nated by the Director, may administer oaths and affirmations
and may, whenever deemed necessary, by subpoena, require any
person to appear and testify, or to appear and produce
documents , or both, at any designated place. Any person
subpoenaed shall have the right to make a record of his
testimony and to be represented by counsel. In case of
contumacy or refusal to obey a subpoena served upon any
person, the Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction to
issue an order requiring ,such person to appear and give
testimony or to appear and produce documents , or both, and
any failure to obey such order of the Court may be punished
by such Court as a contempt thereof.
(2) The Director may require that all documentation
submitted to him be verified or affirmed by the party making
such submission.
The Director shall establish, as necessary,
procedures for the service of papers , documents and other
submissions upon the parties to a proceeding before the
Administration.
(3) The Director shall have the authority to seek
injunctive relief, when, in his judgement, such action is
considered necessary to effectuate the purposes of this
Ordinance.
(b) (1) The Director shall establish maximum rents
which shall be the rents in effect on Octobeli 1, 1973 , or,
if the housing accommodation had been previously rented but
was vacant on that date, the last rent collected.
(2) There shall be no restriction in the rental
to be charged for a housing accommodation rented for the
first time, provided that a registration statement is filed
with the Director within 30 days after such renting. All
subsequent rental adjustments for such housing accommodation
shall be subject to the provisions of this Ordinance.
(3) The Director may determine the maximum rent of
a housing accommodation including dwelling space, essential
services, furniture, furnishings or equipment, when such
maximum rent is in doubt.
(4) Each landlord shall, within forty-five (45)
days after adoption of this Ordinance, unless such time is
extended by the Director, file with the Director, on forms
prescribed by him, registration statements setting forth the
freeze date maximum rents , essential services and equipment
and such other data as the Director shall consider necessary
to effectuate the purposes of this Ordinance. Failure to
timely file shall be considered willful violation of this
Ordinance and subject the landlord to a fine of Five Hundred
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Dollars ($500.00) for each housing accomodation for which
no registration statement is timely filed. In such case,
the Director shall establish the maximum rent as of October
1, 1973 or date of first renting, whichever is later, based
upon a comparability study of similar apartments and after
consideration of the equities involved. A registration
statement shall also be filed for each vacant apartment
which had been previously rented and upon renting, the
landlord shall, within thirty (30) days after such renting,
notify the Director in writing of the rental being charged
and the name of the tenant.
(c) (1) (i) At the expiration of an existing lease which
may have been in effect prior to October 1, 1973, a landlord
may receive a percentage increase over the maximum rent then
in effect in accordance with guidelines to be established by
the Director effective October 1 of each year, commencing
October 1, 1974. This increase is collectible as of October
1, 1974, or upon the expiration of a lease which may have
been in effect on October 1, 1973, whichever is later.
(ii) Any rental increase contained in a lease
entered into between October 1, 1973 and December 31, 1973,
or, if entered into prior to October 1, 1973, was effective
on or after October 1, 1973, is superseded by the provisions
of this Ordinance. However, in such instances, a landlord
shall be permitted to collect the guidelines increase,
commencing October 1, 1974 . and each succeeding October 1,
until the expiration of the lease at which time the provisions
of this paragraph shall prevail.
(iii) No subsequent automatic increase may be
collected sooner than upon the expiration of twelve (12)
months after commencement of the prior such automatic increase.
(2) (i) Except as hereinafter provided, no rental
increase above the freeze date maximum rent shall be permitted
prior to October 1, 1974. Occupancy of a previously rented
housing accommodation by a new tenant between October 1, 1973
and September 30, 1974 shall be at the freeze date maximum
rent. Any lease entered into on or after January 1, 1974 and
effective between January 1, 1974 and September 30, 1974 must
contain a clause providing for the guidelines increase effec-
tive October 1, 1974 and each subsequent October 1 for the
term of the lease, in order for such increase to be collectible.
(ii) No increase granted pursuant to Section 4 (c)
(4)(iv) (major capital improvement and substantial rehabilita-
tion) shall be collectible where a lease entered into on or
after January 1, 1974 fails to include a clause providing for
such increase. Such clause must make specific reference to
the particular major capital improvement or substantial
rehabilitation and such work must be in progress at the time
the lease is entered into. However, no such clause shall be
required to collect such increase where a lease had been
entered into between October 1, 1973 and December 31, 1973 or,
if entered into prior to October 1, 1973, was effective on
or after October 1, 1973.
(iii) No increase granted pursuant to Section 4 (c)
(4)(v) (fair return) shall be collectible where a lease entered
into on or after January 1, 1974 fails to include a clause
providing for such increase. No such clause shall be required
to collect such increase where a lease had been entered into
between October 1, 1973 and December 31, 1973 or, if entered into
prior to October 1, 1973, was effective on or after October 1,
1973.
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(3) In establishing the guidelines, the Director
may consider:
(i) The economic condition of the residential real
estate industry in Miami Beach and, if warranted, in adjacent
areas , including such factors as the prevailing and projected
(a) real estate taxes and water and sewer rates ; (b) gross
operating and maintenance costs (including but not limited
to insurance rates , utility and labor costs) ; (c) costs and
availability of financing (including effective rates of
interest) ; and (d) overall supply of housing accommodations
and overall vacancy rates .
(ii) Relevant data from the current and projected
cost of living indices.
(iii) Other relevant data which may be available to
the Director.
If it is determined by the Director, upon application
by the tenants within thirty (30) days after establishment of
the guidelines , that essential building-wide services are
not being substantially maintained, such percentage increases
to the building shall be, revoked effective as of the October 1
date preceding such revocation. The landlord shall be required
to refund to the tenants, within thirty (30) days from the date
of revocation, the cumulative amount of the collected increased
rentals exceeding the maximum rents in effect as of the preceding
September 30. The landlord shall not be premitted to obtain
restoration of the guidelines increase until proof of restor-
ation of services is submitted to the Director and verified.
No subsequent guidelines increase shall be permitted until
twelve (12) months after the effective date of the order
restoring the increases.
(4) Adjustments may be granted upon application at
any time subject to the approval of the Director, where:
(i) It is established that unique or peculiar
circumstances existed which resulted in a freeze date maximum
rent substantially lower or higher -than the rents generally
prevailing in the same area for substantially similar housing
accommodations.
(ii) The landlord and tenant, by mutual voluntary
written agreement, consent to an increase or decrease in
dwelling space or a change in the services, furniture, fur-
nishings or equipment provided to the housing accommodation.
(iii) Improvements are provided to the overall building,
as distinguished from the individual units, upon the express
written consent of fifty-one percent (51%) of the tenants
in occupancy as of the date of filing the application for
such increase.
(iv) There has been a major capital improvement
required for the operation, preservation or maintenance of
the structure, or substantial rehibilitation to the premises ,
completed on or after October 1, 1973 . The consent of the
tenants will not be prerequisite to obtaining increases under
this paragraph. However, no increases will be granted unless
essential services are substantially being maintained on the
date of issuance of the orders granting the increases.
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(v) It is established that the earned income
from the property (which, after October 1, 1974 shall include
the increases resulting from the guidelines established by
the Director) does not result in a net annual return of
6% of the assessed valuation of the property in effect as
of October 1, 1973 . For the purposes of this paragraph,
net annual return shall be the amount by which the earned
income exceeds the operating expenses of the property,
excluding mortgage interest, amortization, depreciation
and debt service. No such increase shall be granted where
there is pending without final disposition a proceeding to
correct the determination of the Tax Assessor with respect
to the assessed valuation of such property.. Only one appli-
cation may be filed under this paragraph in any twelve-month
period and any increase granted shall not be effective sooner
than the expiration of twelve months after the granting of
a prior increase under this paragraph. In no event shall
any increase granted under this paragraph for any housing
accommodation exceed 5% of the rental in effect on the date
of filing the application under this paragraph, nor shall
the total increase granted to any housing accommodation in
any twelve (12) month period under the annual guidelines and
this paragraph, combined, exceed 7% of the maximum rent in
effect as of the October 1st preceding, except that this
limitation may be waived where a greater increase is necessary
to make the earned income of the property equal its operating
expenses . No increases shall be granted under this paragraph
unless essential services are substantially being maintained
on the date of issuance of the orders granting the increases
nor shall any increases be granted where the landlord had
been denied the guidelines increase based upon the failure
to substantially maintain essential services, and no orders
of restoration have been issued.
(5) The Director, upon application of a tenant or
tenants , or upon his own volition, may reduce a maximum rent
or rents upon a finding that there has been a reduction in
dwelling space, essential services , furniture, furnishings
or equipment.
SECTION 5. - Evictions .
So long as the tenant continues to pay the rent
to which the landlord is entitled, no action or proceeding to
recover possession of any housing accommodation shall be
maintainable by any landlord against any tenant notwithstanding
that the tenant has no lease or that his lease has expired
and notwithstanding any contract, lease agreement or obli-
gation heretofore or hereafter entered into which provides for
surrender of possession, except on the following ground:
(a) An action or proceeding to recover possession
of any housing accommodation shall be maintainable in a court
of competent jurisdiction when:
(1) The tenant has refused or failed to pay the
maximum rent except that if such refusal is in accord with
other State of Local statutes designed to protect the tenant,
such statutes may be raised as a defense.
(2) The tenant is committing or permitting a
nuisance in the housing accommodation.
(3) There is intentional or persistent neglect,
damage or injury by the tenant to the property of the landlord.
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(4) There are disorderly or disturbing noises
or conduct on the part of the tenant that destroy the peace
and tranquility of the landlord, other tenants, or persons
living in or about the neighborhood.
(5) The tenant is violating a substantial obli-
gation of his tenancy.
(6) The tenant is using the housing accommodation
for an immoral or illegal purpose.
(7) The tenant has unreasonably refused access to
the landlord for the purpose of making necessary repairs or
improvements or for the purpose of showing the housing accom-
modation to a person with a legitimate interest therein, unless
such refusal is contrary to the provisions of the tenant's
lease or other agreement.
(b) No tenant may be evicted for the reasons here-
inafter set forth unless , upon application by the landlord,
the Director shall issue an order granting a certificate of
eviction permitting the landlord to pursue his remedies at
law. For the purpose of this paragraph, good faith is defined
as meaning that the landlord will utilize the housing accom-
modations for the purposes stated in his application. An
order granting a certificate of eviction shall be issued when
it is found that:
(1) The owner seeks, in good faith, to recover
possession of the housing accommodation for his own use and
occupancy.
(2) The landlord seeks , in good faith to substan-
tially demolish the building for the purpose of constructing
a new residential building containing at least 25% additional
housing accommodations. Such new structure may contain business
and commercial units on the ground floor only, so long as there
is compliance with governmental zoning requirements . The
Director shall, by regulation, as a condition to granting
certificates of eviction under this provision, require the
relocation of tenants in other suitable accommodations except
where the Director finds that exemption from such relocation
will not result in hardship to a tenant or class of tenants .
Costs of relocation, including moving expenses, shall be borne
by the landlord. Final approval of the suitability of the
relocated housing accommodation shall be made by the Director.
(3) The Director may issue orders granting cer-
tificates of eviction in other cases if the requested removal
or eviction is not inconsistent with the purposes of the Rent
Law. In such cases , the Director shall impose such terms and
conditions as he deems appropriate.
(4) (i) All orders granting certificates of eviction
shall contain a stay of 90 days from the date of issuance,
prior to which no proceeding may be commenced in court for
the removal of the occupant.
(ii) Should the landlord fail to utilize the
premises for the purpose sought within 30 days after removal
of the tenant pursuant to an order granting a certificate of
eviction under paragraph (1) of this section or within 90
days after the vacating of the last tenant under paragraph (2)
of this section, he shall be liable to each tenant for three
times the damages sustained on account of such tenant' s removal,
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reasonable attorney 's fees and court costs. Damages shall
include the cost of moving and the difference in rent bet-
ween that rental which the tenant had been paying prior to
removal and the rental paid upon occupancy after removal,
and such differential shall be computed for a two year
period. The landlord shall also be subject to the penalties
set forth in section 12 of this Ordinance.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section,
the United States, the State of Florida or any agency or
political subdivision thereof may maintain an action or
proceeding to recover possession of any housing accommoda-
tion operated by it where such action or proceeding is
authorized by the statute or regulation under which such
accommodations are administered.
SECTION 6. - Effective date of rent adjustments.
Any rent adjustment other than that prescribed by
Section 4 (c) (1) of this ordinance, shall be effective as
of the first day of the month following the issuance of the
determination by the Director.
SECTION 7. -- Hearings.
Parties to a proceeding shall submit written docu-
mentation to support their positions. Oral hearings shall
not be required and shall only be held in the discretion of
the Director.
SECTION 8 . - Judicial review.
A party aggrieved by a regulation or a final deter-
mination issued by the Director may seek judicial review of
such regulation or final determination of the Director by
way of certiorari to the Circuit Court within thirty (30)
days from the date of issuance of the Director's regulation
or determination.
SECTION 9. - Modification of Determination
The Director, prior to commencement of a proceeding for
judicial review, and prior to the execution of a warrant in
a summary proceeding to recover possession of real property,
may revoke, modify or supersede any determination issued where
it is found that such determination was the result of fraud,
illegality or irregularity in vital matters.
SECTION 10. -- Prohibitions
(a) It shall be unlawful, regardless of any contract,
lease or other obligation heretofore or hereafter entered
into, for any person to demand or receive any rent for any-
housing accommodation in excess of the maximum rent or other-
wise to do or omit to do any act in violation of any regulation,
order or requirement of the Director under this Ordinance or
to offer, solicit, attempt or agree to do any of the foregoing.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the
Administration or for any official adviser or consultant to the
Director to disclose, other -than in the course of official
duty, any information obtained under this Ordinance or to use
any such information for personal benefit.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person willfully to make
any statement or entry false in any material respect in any
document or report submitted in any proceeding before the
Administration or required to be kept or filed under this
Ordinance or regulation , order, or requirement thereunder, or
to willfully omit or neglect to make any material statement or
entry required to be made in any such document or report.
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(d) Where an order granting a Certificate of Eviction has
been issued, it shall be unlawful for a landlord or a successor
in interest to use housing accommodations on the site on which
same are located for any purposes other than those specified
in the Certificate of Eviction.
SECTION 11. - Harassment
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to
cause any tenant to vacate housing accommodations, to engage
in any course of conduct, including, but not limited to inter-
ruption or discontinuance of essential services, which inter-
feres with or disturbs the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of
such tenant in his use or occupancy of his housing accommodation.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or attempt
to remove a tenant from his housing accommodation because such
tenant has taken, or proposes to take, action authorized or
required by this Ordinance or any existing building, housing
and health codes .
(c) If it is found by the Director that a tenant has
vacated his housing accommodation as the result of actions which
are in violation of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section, the
tenant shall be permitted to recover in an action at law three
times the damages incurred as well as reasonable attorney ' s
fees and court costs . Damages shall include the costs of moving
and the differential in rent between that rental which the tenant
had been paying prior to vacating and the new rental paid, the
differential to be computed for a two-year period. Such action
must be commenced within two (2) years from the date of the
Director ' s findings .
SECTION 12. - Enforcement
Any person who willfully violates any provision of this
Ordinance shall, upon his conviction of a first violation, be
subject to a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) ;
and for each subsequent offense, shall be subject, upon his
conviction, to a find up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) and
imprisonment for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days .
SECTION 13 . - Overcharges
An action may be brought by a tenant against his landlord
in any court of competent jurisdiction to recover rentals
collected by the landlord in excess of the maximum rent. The
landlord shall also be liable for reasonable attorney' s fees and
court costs. Damages not to exceed three times the amount of
the overcharges may be recovered by the tenant if the Court finds
that the overcharges were willfull. An action for overcharges
must be commenced within two years of payment of the last over-
charge and, if commenced timely, the landlord shall be liable
for all overcharges collected prior to the commencement of the
action.
SECTION 14. - Survivorship
In the event of the death of a tenant, the rights of such
deceased tenant shall inure to the surviving spouse or other
person then in occupancy.
SECTION 15. - Waiver
Waiver of the provisions of this Ordinance by the tenant
shall be unenforceable and void.
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SECTION 16 . - Decontrol
Whenever the Director shall find that an emergency
no longer exists with respect to all or any particular class
of housing accommodations , he shall recommend to the City
Council that the controls imposed on rents and evictions pur-
suant to this Ordinance should be scheduled for orderly decon-
trol with due regard to preventing uncertainty, hardship and
dislocation. The City Council may only issue such order after
the holding of a public hearing at which interested persons are
given a reasonable opportunity to be heard.
SECTION 17 . - Duration
This Ordinance shall remain in effect until September 30,
1975 , unless extended by the Council.
SECTION 18. - Severability
If any provision of this Ordinance, or the application of
such provision to any person or circumstance, is declared in-
valid by the final decree of a court of competent jurisdiction,
such invalidity shall not, affect any other provision or appli-
cation of this Ordinance, it being the intent of the City Council
that the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed severable.
SECTION 19. - This Ordinance shall go into effect January 1,
1974.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 19thday of December , 1973
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
1st reading - November 21 , 1973
2nd reading - December 19, 1973
POSTED —December 24, 1973
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STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I , ELAINE MATTHEWS, City Clerk, in and for the City of Miami Beach,
Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 73-1974 entitled:
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING EXISTING CHAPTER 17A OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AND ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER 17A OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION OF RENTS OF
HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS; DECLARING THE EXISTENCE OF AN EMERGENCY REQUIRING
SUCH REGULATION; IMPOSING A MAXIMUM OF RENT CHARGEABLE FOR HOUSING ACCOM-
MODATIONS; FREEZING RENTALS FOR HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS AS OF OCTOBER 1 ,
1973; CREATING THE OFFICE OF RENT DIRECTOR; AND SETTING FORTH HIS RIGHTS
AND POWERS, INCLUDING THE ADOPTION OF RULES AND REGULATIONS; THE ENTRY OF
ORDERS FIXING MAXIMUM RENTS ; PROVIDING FOR STATUTORY TENANCY; THE RECOVERY
OF OVERCHARGES; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES.
having been passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida, has been posted by me at the door of the City Hall
in said City on the 24th day of December , 1973,
and that said Ordinance remained posted for a period of at least thirty
days in accordance with the requirements of the City Charter of the said
City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, on this the
6th day of February , 1974.
City Clerk
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