Section 6: Controller to fix fair rates for accommodation

6. Controller to fix fair rates for accommodation.___(1) The Controller may fix a fair rate to be charged for board, lodging and other service provided in a hotel or boarding-house, at such amount as, having regard to all the circumstances, he deems just. (2) A fair rate may be fixed separately for___ (a) lodging with reference to the nature of the accommodation and the number of guests to be accommodated; (b) board, partial or full; or (c) other service, or the Controller may fix a consolidated rate for lodging, board and service, or for lodging and service only, as above. (3) A fair rate may be fixed separately for daily and monthly guests. Explanation.___ A guest who agrees to reserve accommodation, or for whom accommodations reserved for a period of one month or more shall be deemed to be a monthly guest, provided he actually stays for one month or more or has actually paid in advance for one month: where the reservation is not for any specified period, or is for a period less than a month, the guest shall be deemed to be a daily guest. (4) The Controller may from time to time revise the fair rates determined by him under this section. 1Subs. by A. O., 1964, Art. 2 and Sch. (5) In making an order fixing or revising a fair rate, the Controller shall fix the date, being the first day of a month not earlier than the month in which the order is made, from which the order is to take effect. (6) Until such time as fair rates are fixed in relation to any hotel or lodging-house under this section, the rate, if any, charged by such hotel or lodging-house on the first day of July, 1947, for equivalent lodging, board or service to that provided, shall be deemed to be the fair rate chargeable.

Effective date: 1950-01-01

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