Chapter 156. To extend for the period of one year the provisions of Title II of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, as amended
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CHAP. 156.— An Act To extend for the period of one year the provisions of Title II of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act, approved October 22, 1919, as amended. May 17, 1924.|[H. R. 7962](/us/bill/68/hr/7962).][[Public, No. 119](/us/pl/68/119).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That it is hereby declared that the emergency described in Title II of the Food Control and the District Rents Act still exists and continues in the District of Columbia, and that the present housing and rental con121 ditions therein require the further extension of the provisions of such title.
Sec. 2. That Title II of the Food Control and the District ofProvisions reenacted and continued to May 22, 1925.Vol. 42, pp. 200, 544.*Post*, p. 674. Columbia Rents Act, as amended, is reenacted, extended, and continued, as hereinafter amended, until the 22d day of May, 1925, notwithstanding the provisions of section 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to extend for the period of two years the provisions of Title II of the Food Control and the District of Columbia Rents Act,” approved October 22, 1919, as amended, approved May 22, 1922.
Sec. 3. That subdivision
(a)of section 102 of the Food ControlTerm of commission extendedVol. 42, p. 544, amended. and the District of Columbia Rents Act, as amended by section 4 of such Act of May 22, 1922, is hereby amended by striking out the figures “1924 ” in said subdivision and inserting in lieu thereof the figures “1925.” That the proprietor, manager, owner, or other person in chargeHotels.Rates of charges to be posted in each room, etc. of and conducting any hotel in the District of Columbia shall post in a conspicuous place in each room thereof a card or sign plainly stating the price per day of such room, and a copy of such rates for each room shall be filed with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. In case the hotel is conducted on the American plan, the rates for meals shall be posted in a conspicuous place in each room of the hotel. Such cards or signs, both with reference to rooms and meals, shall be dated as of the day on which they are posted. TheAdvances restricted. rates charged for rooms shall not be advanced in less than thirty days from the date of the approval of the said commissioners of the written application therefor, and in the event an advance in rates is granted the same requirements with reference to posting of notices and filing copies thereof with the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, as above provided, shall apply. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of thePenalty for violations or charging excess of posted rates. provisions of this Act or who shall charge any guest a rate in excess of said posted rates shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each offense. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby chargedEnforcement. with the enforcement of this Act. Approved, May 17, 1924.