§ 26-407. Labor cost pass-along.

a.   Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter, any labor
     cost pass-along rent increase requested of, or received
     from, any tenant on or after July first, nineteen hundred
     seventy-two, pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph (1)
     of paragraph one of subdivision g of section 26-405 of this
     title, shall not exceed the maximum rent adjustment as
     provided under this chapter after the effective date of this
     section.

b.   All such increases in excess of such maximum rent are hereby
     declared null and void and of no effect. A tenant who paid
     any such excess increase shall be repaid by a cash refund or
     credit, to be applied against future rent, in equal
     installments for the same number of months for which such
     increase was actually collected, commencing on January
     first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight.

Added by Laws 1985, Ch. 907, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.