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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 161 -MAR. 30, 1948 60 Stat. 207. 50U.S.C.app. §§ 1821-1833; Supp I, app. §§1821-1832 . 61 Stat. 197. 50 U.S. C., upp. I, app. § 1894 (a). Ante, p. 37. 61 Stat. 198. 50 U. S. C., Supp. I, app. § 1894 (b). Maximum rents. 56 Stat. 23. 50U.S.C.app. p§901-922, 923-946; upp. I ,§ 901 et seq. Adjustments. Lease entered into on or before Dec. 31, 1947. New voluntary lease. space, or any part thereof; or any tourist home serving transient guests exclusively, or any part thereof; or "(3) any housing accommodations (A) the construction of which was completed on or after February 1, 1947, or which are additional housing accommodations created by conversion on or after February 1, 1947, except that contracts for the rental of housing accommodations to veterans of World War II and their immediate families, the con- struction of which was assisted by allocations or priorities under Public Law 388, Seventy-ninth Congress, approved May 22,1946, shall remain in full force and effect; or (B) which for any successive twenty- four month period during the period February 1, 1945, to the date of enactment of the Housing and Rent Act of 1948, both dates inclusive, were not rented (other than to members of the immediate family of the landlord) as housing accommodations; or (C) the construction of which was completed on or after February 1, 1945, and prior to February 1, 1947, and which between the date of completion and June 30, 1947, both dates inclusive, at no time were rented (other than to members of the immediate family of the landlord) as housing accommodations; or "(4) nonhousekeeping, furnished housing accommodations, located within a single dwelling unit not used as a rooming or boarding house, but only if (A) no more than two paying tenants, not members of the landlord's immediate family, live in such dwelling unit, and (B) the remaining portion of such dwelling unit is occupied by the landlord or his immediate family." SEC. 202. (a) Section 204 (a) of such Act, as amended, is amended by striking out "March 31, 1948" and inserting in lieu thereof "March 31, 1949". (b) Section 204 (b) of such Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "(b) (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, during the period beginning on the effective date of this title and ending on the date this title ceases to be in effect, no person shall demand, accept, or receive any rent for the use or occupancy of any controlled housing accommodations greater than the maximum rent established under the authority of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended, and in effect with respect thereto on June 30, 1947: Provided,however, That the Housing Expediter shall, by regu- lation or order, make such individual and general adjustments m such maximum rents in any defense-rental area or any portion thereof, or with respect to any housing accommodations or any class of housing accommodations within any such area or any portion thereof, as may be necessary to remove hardships or to correct other inequities, or further to carry out the purposes and provisions of this title. In the making of adjustments to remove hardships due weight shall be given to the question as to whether or not the landlord is suffering a loss in the operation of the housing accommodations. "(2) In any case in which a landlord and tenant, on or before December 31, 1947, in accordance with the provisions of this subsection as then in effect, voluntarily entered into a valid written lease in good faith with respect to any housing accommodations, such housing accommodations shall not be subject to any maximum rent established or maintained under the provisions of this title unless such lease is hereafter terminated or expires before March 31, 1949, in which case the maximum rent for such housing accommodations shall, through March 31, 1949, be not in excess of 15 per centum over the maximum rent which in the absence of a lease would be in effect with respect thereto on the date of enactment of the Housing and Rent Act of 1948: Provided,That the landlord and a tenant (including any new tenant) may enter into a new voluntary lease subject to the conditions, specified 94 [62 STAT.

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