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SAWYER PROP. MGMT. v. DC RENTAL HOUS. COM'N

No. 02-AA-1362.

877 A.2d 96 (2005)

SAWYER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT OF MARYLAND, INC., Petitioner, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA RENTAL HOUSING COMMISSION, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 16, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Von Salzen, Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Mary T. Connelly, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Robert J. Spagnoletti, Attorney General, and Edward E. Schwab, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief, for respondent.*

Vincent Mark J. Policy, Richard W. Luchs, Washington, DC and M. Ryan Jenness, filed a brief on behalf of the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington as amicus curiae.

Before GLICKMAN, Associate Judge, and KERN and STEADMAN, Senior Judges.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

The Rental Housing Commission ("RHC") disallowed a rent increase for a rent-controlled apartment because of defects in the housing provider's registration and notice to the tenant and, more critically, because the increase did not implement a properly perfected upward adjustment of the rent ceiling for the apartment. We affirm on the latter ground. We defer to the RHC's interpretation of statutory provisions and its own regulations governing...

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