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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Section 1

Citation
Section 1
Parent Document
Wallace v. Boston Rent Board, 12 Mass. App. Ct. 13 (1981)
Jurisdiction
Massachusetts (state)
Effective Date
1981-06-02

Full Text

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Section 1(e) of the ordinance excludes various premises from the definition of “housing accomodations” including, in § 1(e) (vi), “units of housing accomodations which become vacant on or after January 1,1976, or which are vacated voluntarily or pursuant to court order anytime thereafter” (emphasis supplied). Section 1 of regulation 10 construes the emphasized word of the ordinance to mean “and.” Central Trust Co. v. Howard, 275 Mass. 153,158 (1931). We likewise interpret the ordinance as it would undercut the purpose of the voluntary vacancy and court order provisions to do otherwise.