Legal Opinion
Virgin Islands Housing Authority v. Edwards
Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands
Decided April 13, 1994No. Civil No. 857/93PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtDiase, Judge
(AMENDED) MEMORANDUM OPINION
This case presents the unique issue of whether a specific provision in the Code of Federal Regulations which requires that a Virgin Islands public housing agency provide a fourteen day notice to terminate a periodic, month to month, tenancy for failure to pay rent, preempts Virgin Islands law which requires a thirty day notice of termination. The Court holds as follows: 1) that the fourteen day notice of termination for failure to pay rent that is established by 24 C.F.R. § 966.4(l)(3)(i)(A) applies to the Virgin Islands Housing Authority as it is a public housing…
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