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Friday, January 25, 1974
University Daily Kausan
Landlord-Tenant Rights Testimony Differs on Bill's Self-Help Clause
By DON LEVY
Kansan Staff Reporter
TOPEKA—The administrative director of the Lawrence Consumer Protection Agency will review the committee yesterday in favor of a landlord-tenants' rights bill. The director, Linda Triplet, told the committee that landlords' self-shelp provision of the proposed law.
If passed, the bill would cofly landlords' and tenants' rights and duties. The bill includes a self-help provision that would allow a tenant to order repairs if the landlord failed to correct defects in his building in 30 days after notification by the tenant.
Jack Brand, Lawrence attorney and representative of the Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City Apartment Owners' Associations, was one of three witnesses testifying against the self-help provision of the bill.
SEN. PAUL, HESS, R-Wichita, and third-airman at the University of Kansas authored the book.
"I see the effect this bill could have as monumental," Hess said. "There's been no real change in landlord-tenant relations in the past hundred years."
Hess said he was confident that the bill would be quickly reported out of the committee.
A companion bill in the house referred to a committee headed by Rep. Lloyd Buzzi, R-Lawrence, would allow the state Board of Health to promulgate state-wide housing policies that will make necessary repairs would pay their rent to an escrow account administered by
the state. Money from this account would be used to make the repairs.
The Kansas Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that could give tenants many of the rights proposed in the legislature. Bill Ward asked the Consumer Protection Agency, said Tuesday.
"THE COURT WILL decide if a 'warranty of habitability', a guarantee that the residence will meet minimum housing standards, is implicit in every rental agreement." If it does decide this warranty points to their landlords for breach of warranty.
Triplet said she told the senate committee there was a need for the bill in
"There are a lot of kids here in Lawrence who live in a substandard housing," she said.
"reserve us in substandard housing," she said.
Sen. Hess said that because of a lack of expected letters to senators on the com-munity level, she said, the bill could have trouble on the floor.
Subcommittee action on the house bill won't come as quickly as in the senate.
"WE NEED TIME to clean up the bill, to make it livable, if you'll pardon the pun," Buzzi said. "Now it's time for all the lobbiness and the conflict interests."
None of the legislators working on the bill has received much mail about it, he said. Sen. J.C. Tillotson, R-Norton and Judiciary Committee chairman, said he expected heavy opposition to the senate bill from landlord groups.
"They are all opposed to the self-help provision," he said.
Triplet said that provisions in the bill would prohibit abuse of the self-help clause by those who are not registered.
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Many tenants' in Lawrence need the protection offered by the proposed legislation, she said, but emphasized that it does not ensuing a personal opinion, not CPA policy.
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"THE PROVISION IS only in case of 'material non-compliance' with either the terms of the rental agreement or with minimum housing codes," she said.
More than a third of the 34 formal complaints received by the CPA last semester involved landlord-denant problems, accounts of figures released Wednesday by the CPA.
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Michael Davis, associate professor of law and faculty director of Lawrence Legal Aid (LLA), said that LLA received many tenants from tenants about landlord problems.
"The ones from the area between the hill and Massachusetts usually involve repair problems, and the ones from the new ones usually involve security deposits," he said.
PROVISIONS IN the senate bill would
give requirements that landlords make
provisions to permit tenants to own
the property.
IN CONCERT.
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Davis said he thought the house bill would have little effect on Lawrence because the city already had a local inspection department, and the bill would have a major effect, he said.
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Triplet called for strong student support for both bills.
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Journalism Prof Awarded 1974 Fulbright Fellowship
J. Laurence Day associate professor of journalism, has received a Fulbright award.
There are three mass communications lectureships in the world-wide Fulbright program, which is administered by the U.S. State Department, Day said yesterday.
Day received one of the ten awards made in Argentina, where he will be teaching in Europe.
Day's interest in Latin America goes back to 1955-1957 when he spent 2 years in the
interior of Uruguay as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since then, he has made many extended trips to Latin America as a journalist.
Day is on the executive board of the Kansas-Paraguay Partnership, Inc., a private organization that grew out of the Alliance for Progress. Through this organization, Kansas recently sent $150,000 in medical supplies to Paraguay.
Day is also president-elect of the International Division of the Association for Journalism Education.
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