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An ordi ance adding to and amending Chapter
54 of th St. Paul Legislative Code pertaining
to Minimum Housing Standards for Dwellingsand
Multiple Dwellings.
THE COUNCIL OF THE GITY OF SAINT PAUL DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. That Chapter 54.07 - DEFINITIONS of the St. Paul
Legislative Code is hereby amended to include the following definition,
which shall appear in Chapter 54.07 in proper alphabetical order:
LET - Let shall mean to lease or to grant
the use and possession of real property,
whether or not for compensation.
Section 2. That Chapter 54.0'7 - DEFINITIONS of the St. Paul
Legislative Code is hereby amended by striking the definition
OWNER in its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof the following:
OWNER. - An Owner shall mean owner or owners of
the freehold of the premises or lesser estate
therein, holder of an unrecorded contract for
deed, a mortgagee or vendee in possession,
assignee of rents, receiver, executor, trustee,
lessee, other person, firm, or corporation in
control of a building.
Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
thirty (30) days from and after its passage, approval and publication�
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�D� ^p ARTHUR M.NELSON
THOMAS M.MOONEV
PAUL F.McC�OSKEV,JR.
R.SCOTT DA V I ES
KENNETH J.FITZPATRICK CITY OF SAINT PAUL DAN EL L.FE KEIRR
First Assistant
KENNETH A.SKRIEN
JEROME J.SEGAL LE��L pEPARTMENT JOHN C.McLAUGHLIN
Special Assistant ROBERT C.HOENE
31 i City Nall. St. Pa�l� Mi�n�sota b5102 n�g�ste�t=
TERRY F.SULLIVAN
DANIEL A. KLAS �o�e:ti9ecor
CorpontionCoun�al February 16, 1971
The Honorable Mayor and Members
of the Saint Paul City Council
A problem has arisen in the prosecution of persons, sometimes
referred to as slum landlords, for Housing Code violations.
The definition of the word "let", for addition to the list
of definitions in Chapter 54.07, is intended to alleviate a legal
teehnicality that confronts prosecutors in the enforcement of
our Honsing Code. No definition is currently in the Code and
in the past, prosecutors were bound by the word' s normal legal
meaning, which put the burden on them of proving up the existence
of a lease. In many situations faced by prosecutors there was
no lease in writing. Also, restricting prosecutors to only those
situations where a lease existed hampered Housing Code enforcement
in the multitude of situations where an informal agreement existed
between the occupant and the real owner in interest without a
lease.
The definition proposed in the ordinance is expansive enough
to include almost any kind of relationship between an owner and
occupant of the premises.
The ordinance also includes an expanded definition of �'owner".
The defintion is the same as currently exists with the exception
that it now includes the phrase "holder of an unrecorded contraet
for deed". Many owners of property either through ignorance or
intentional avoidance do not record their contract for deeds.
Such a person can obviously exercise a great deal of control over
the buyer of a particular premises, and the inclusion of such a
person in the Code will assist the City with the enforcement of
our Housing Code.
Many situations have arisen in the last few years where
criminal prosecution for the enforcement of otzr Housing Code
have been stymied because the only person we could hold accountable
was the "holder of an unrecorded contract for deed". Because
this person was not defined as an owner in the ordinance, prosecution
was brought to a standstill.
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PAIIL F. MeCLOS EY, JR,.
Assistant Corporation Cq nsel
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Carlson � Carlson
Levine �+����� �`4;Levine
Meredith ��eredith
Sprafka � �prafka
Tedesco �edesco
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Mr. President McCarty �Mr. President McCarFy
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