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<br />ORDINANCE N0. 8800
<br />AN ORDINANCE TO STABLIZE THE COST 0~' SHELTER IN THE CITY OF
<br />EUGEIv~, TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF ITS CITIZENS AND TO PROjTIDE
<br />PEIdALITIES FOR TIC VIOLATION THEREOF, AND DECLARING AN EMER-
<br />GENCY .
<br />II~HEREAS, the 77th, United States Congress,~second, session, Acts of
<br />January 30th, 1943, and October second, 1942, declared it to be in the int-
<br />erest of the National Defense and security, and necessary to the effective
<br />prosecution of the present war that speculative, unwarranted and abnormal
<br />increases in rents, be prevented, and
<br />Wf~REAS, the office of Price Administration has been set up to Ad-
<br />minitster the provisions of said act, and
<br />WHEREAS, if the off ice of Price Administration established a rent
<br />control area in Eugene, all rentals would be frozen at the prices charged
<br />March first, 1942, and a severe hardship would be worked on all of the prop-
<br />erty owners in the City of Eugene, and many would be forced to pperate their
<br />properties at an actual loss, and
<br />V~REAS, dtie to bidding by military and civilian personell seeking
<br />housing accomdations in Eugene, rentals for such accomodation are reaching a
<br />point greatly in excess of actual rental values, and many citizens engaged
<br />in critical occupations connected with the war effort are being forced to leave
<br />their jobs, and
<br />V~iEF:EAS, Section 47 of the Charter of the City of Eugene provides that
<br />the Common Council shall have power to,-
<br />"License, tax, and regulate all such callins, trades and exmployments
<br />as the public health or good may require to be licenses, taxed or
<br />regulated, and as not prohibited by the laws of the State of Oregon
<br />or of the United States,"
<br />THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOti"~S:
<br />SECTION Z. NECESSITY, That is is urgently necessary for the maintenece
<br />of adequate living space at a reasonable price, and for the effective prose-
<br />cution of the war effort, and for the protection of the health of persons
<br />engaged therein, that rentals, occupancies and evictions be regulated.
<br />SECTION II. DEFINITIONS:
<br />"Persons" includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association,
<br />synidcate, or any other organized group of persons, or legal successor or re-
<br />presentative of any of the foregoing.
<br />"Housing accomodation or rooms" means any building, structure or part
<br />thereof, or land appurtenant thereto, or any other real or personal property
<br />rented or offered for rent for living or dwelling purposes, including houses,
<br />apartments, hotels rooming or boarding house accomodations or rooms, and other
<br />properties used for living or dwelling purposes, together with all privileges,
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