Southview Co-Operative Housing Corp. v. Rent Control Board of Cambridge

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• concluding that a petition charge was a valid fee where it only covered the board’s reasonably anticipated costs of providing rent adjustments
• charges assessed by rent control board on landlords in connection with petitions for individual rent adjustments reasonably designed to compensate board for anticipated costs
• fee paid by landlord to petition for rent adjustment was for particular service benefitting landlord
• city’s rent control board assesses charge based on percentage of rents and capital improvements for landlord to file petition for rent adjustment
• landlords petitioning for rent increases beneficiaries of services provided by rent control board; filing fee not a tax
• fees are not taxes ‘even though they must be paid in order that a right may be enjoyed’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).