(Added by Ord. No. 166,707, Eff. 4/1/91.)
If a landlord is assessed financial penalties pursuant to the Emergency Water Conservation Plan of the City of Los Angeles, the landlord is entitled to partially pass through those penalties to tenants in the form of a temporary rent surcharge. This surcharge shall not constitute a rent increase for purposes of Section 151.06 of this chapter.
A. A landlord may partially pass through the financial penalties assessed by the Department of Water and Power under the Emergency Water Conservation Plan in the following amount and manner, and in accordance with the regulations adopted by the Rent Adjustment Commission.
1. The landlord shall be entitled to a rent increase in the form of a surcharge of fifty percent (50%) of the penalties assessed.
2. For mobilehome parks that are not separately submetered, the owner of the mobilehome park shall be entitled to pass through seventy-five percent (75%) of the assessed penalties. For mobilehome parks that are submetered, the owner of the park may apportion any assessed penalties in accordance with Rent Adjustment Commission regulations.
B. A landlord shall not close on-premises coin operated laundry facilities during the duration of the Emergency Water Conservation Plan.
SEC. 151.06.5. REDUCTIONS IN RENT.
(Repealed by Ord. No. 173,810, Eff. 4/16/01.)