024 of 1998 - AN ORDINANCE ENACTING CHAPTER 18.99, SALT LAKE CITY CODE, RELATING TO HOUSING RELOCATION ASSISTANCE0 98-1
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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 24 of 1998
(housing relocation assistance)
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING CHAPTER 18.99, SALT LAKE CITY CODE,
RELATING TO HOUSING RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 18.99, Salt Lake City Code, be, and the same hereby
is, enacted to read as follows:
Chapter 18.99 HOUSING RELOCATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
18.99.010. Purpose.
18.99.020. Definitions.
18.99.030. Non -city agency responsible for program.
18.99.040. Tenant relocation fee to non -city agency.
18.99.050. Persons eligible for assistance.
18.99.060. Forms of assistance.
18.99.070. Appropriation of money by city council.
18.99.010. Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide for relocation assistance to tenants of
apartments in the city who are displaced from housing that has been closed by the city. It
is in the public interest to reduce the amount of homelessness in the city through such
assistance.
18.99.020. Definitions.
For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context,
certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined as follows:
A. "Agency" means a nonprofit corporation appointed by the housing and
neighborhood development division of the city to administer the program.
B. "Apartment" means a room or suite of rooms which is occupied or intended or
designed to be occupied by one or more tenants for living or sleeping purposes or both.
The term "apartment" shall not be construed to mean a club, group home,
transitional victim home, substance abuse home, transitional home, a lodge or a
fraternity/sorority house.
C. "Program" means the tenant relocation assistance program provided for in this
chapter.
D. For purposes of this chapter, the term "tenant" shall be limited to persons
who are parties to a written rental agreement with the landlord of the apartment, and to
any dependent children of such persons who reside in the apartment.
18.99.030. Non -city agency responsible for program.
A. The housing and neighborhood development division of the city shall annually
designate the agency to administer the program and shall review annually all relocation
assistance amounts provided pursuant to the program.
B. The agency shall perform the following functions:
(i)
after an apartment has been ordered closed by the city, meet with the
tenants of that apartment and determine the type and extent of assistance required by the
tenants.
(ii) provide such tenants with a listing of available apartments, make
available a telephone for the use of such tenants in locating an apartment, and arrange for
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such tenants to see the available apartments. This provision does not obligate the city or
the agency to provide transportation for tenants.
(iii) issue checks to tenants or landlords, or both, as necessary to provide
assistance for relocation of the tenants.
18.99.040. Tenant relocation fee to non -city agency.
A. The agency shall be paid a fee by the city for each tenant fully assisted by the
program who has a written referral from the city. Such written referral is intended (i) to
assure that only eligible tenants under the program are being served by the program, and
(ii) to allow the city to track the money spent on the program.
B. The tenant relocation fee shall be established at a maximum amount of $600
for each apartment vacated, plus an additional amount not to exceed $100 for moving
expenses for each apartment vacated.
C. Tenants will be eligible for assistance in the form of deposit fees, one-time
partial rent payments, moving costs, and apartment referrals.
18.99.050. Persons eligible for assistance.
A. Tenants residing in apartment building containing four or fewer apartments
closed for "substandard" or "imminent danger/hazardous conditions" are eligible for
relocation assistance. A notice and order to vacate may not be issued with respect to such
apartments if the landlord has signed a stipulation with the city and is, to the reasonable
satisfaction of the apartment inspector of the city, working on remedying the substandard
or imminent danger/hazardous conditions. Each notice and order to vacate shall specify
the date (the "10 day deadline") which is ten (10) days before the date on which the
apartment is required to be vacated. A tenant will be eligible for relocation assistance
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under this subsection (A) only if he or she vacates the apartment after the 10 day deadline
has passed.
B. Relocation assistance will also be available to tenants in apartment buildings
containing four or fewer apartments which units are closed in connection with the unit
legalization process.
18.99.060. Appropriation of money by city council.
Relocation assistance will be available only to the extent that the city council
appropriates money to the relocation assistance program. The city reserves the right to
seek reimbursement or compensation from the owner of any apartment which has been
vacated and with respect to which the city pays any relocation assistance fees, in the
amount of any tenant relocation assistance fees paid with respect to such apartment.
18.99.070 Priority to Families of Low and Extremely Low Income.
In selecting the tenants to receive moneys appropriated for relocation assistance,
the city and the agency shall grant a priority to tenants who are members of low-income
families or extremely low-income families, as those terms are defined from time to time
in the regulations of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.
SECTION 2. Effect of Invalidity. If any section, sentence, paragraph, term or
provision of this Ordinance is for any reason determined to be or rendered illegal, invalid,
or superseded by other lawful authority including any state or federal, legislative,
regulatory or administrative authority having jurisdiction thereof or determined to be
unconstitutional, illegal or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction. This entire
ordinance shall be voided and terminated.
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SECTION 3. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective on the date
of its first publication.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, this 2 day of
, 1998.
ATTEST AND COUNTERSIGN:
IEF DEPUTY CITY REC
ER
Transmitted to the Mayor on 5- 1a.-8
Mayor's Action: )( ? ..roved
ATTEST AND
CHIEF DEPUTY CI Y RESIRDER
(SEAL)
Bill No. 24 of 1998.
Published: May 20, 1998.
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