Zipkin v. Weaver

Section 4 (subd. 4, par. [al, cl. [4]) of the State Residential Rent Law (L. 1946, ch. 274, as amd.), and subdivision 2 of section 33 of the State Rent and Eviction Regulations authorize a 15% increase in the maximum rent of any housing accommodation when the landlord and tenant enter into a written lease in good faith for a term of not less than two years. In the instant case, a lease for a two-year term, with a 15% increase, was made on October 1, 1954, and a report of that lease was duly filed with the State Rent Commission. After the tenant had entered into possession and occupied the…