Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)

Citation: Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)
Parent Document: Shires Housing, Inc. v. Carolyn S. Brown and William A. Shepard, II, 172 A.3d 1215 (2017)
Jurisdiction: Vermont (state)
Effective Date: 2017-07-21
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4489424/shires-housing-inc-v-carolyn-s-... ↗

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¶ 27. Despite this plain language, tenant and the majority point to two possible sources of ambiguity and conclude that, because of these claimed ambiguities, the Department of Housing and Community Development's interpretation of the statute should be given deference. As tenant states, to be ambiguous, the statute must be capable of more than one interpretation. See Ambiguity, Black's Law Dictionary (10th ed. 2014) ("An uncertainty of meaning based not on the scope of a word or phrase but on a semantic dichotomy that gives rise to any of two or more quite different but almost equally plausible interpretations."). But § 6237's language does not support more than one plausible interpretation.

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