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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 99 of 1993
(Apartment House Tenant
Application Fees)
AN ORDINANCE ENACTING SECTION 5.14.100, SALT LAKE CITY CODE,
PERTAINING TO APARTMENT HOUSE TENANT APPLICATION FEES.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. Section 5.14.100, Salt Lake City Code, pertaining
to apartment house tenant application fees be, and the same
hereby is, enacted to read as follows:
Section 5.14.100. Tenant Application Fees.
A. The City Council finds:
1. That there is at present a shortage of available
rental housing within Salt Lake City, particularly for low
and middle income persons.
2. Some apartment house landlords or managers have
been charging potential tenants a non-refundable application
fee which far exceeds the landlords' or managers' out-of-
pocket costs of processing such applications.
3. The effect of such excessive application fees is
that a significant number of low and middle income persons
are unable to obtain housing in the city, resulting in a
serious housing crisis within the city.
4. It is necessary and proper that Salt Lake City
prohibit such application fees in order to provide for the
safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity, and
improve the morals, peace, good order, comfort, and
convenience of the city and its inhabitants.
B. For purposes of this section, "tenant application fee"
means the fee charged by a holder of an apartment house operating
regulatory license, or by any owner, operator or manager of an
apartment house within Salt Lake City, in connection with or as a
condition of processing, handling or considering an application
for tenancy at such premises. "Tenant application fee" shall not
include refundable cleaning deposits, refundable security
deposits, or other refundable deposits required as a condition of
entering into a rental or lease agreement.
C. It shall be unlawful for any holder of an apartment
house operating regulatory license, or any owner, operator or
manager of an apartment house within Salt Lake City, to require
any person or persons applying for tenancy at such premises to
pay any tenant application fee whatsoever in connection with such
application, whether refundable or otherwise.
D. A violation of this section shall constitute a
misdemeanor and shall be grounds for the denial of an apartment
house operating regulatory license application or the revocation
of an existing license.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect immediately
upon the date of its first publication.
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Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah this
14th day of December 1993.
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