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Lob Angeles - Oot. 2, 195X 4705-11-22 . Mr. Calvin M. Cory: oo: Hr. W.H. Johnson - Lae Vegas (Personal) In oonneotlon with recent increase In voter rates, I understand that the motel people have conceived the bright idea of watUng themselves “hotels* to seoure the benefit of the lover hotel rate. lav as to the differentiation, If any, betveen a "hotel* and "motel* and my oheok has not been particularly encouraging ......... ........... m ______________b s m H o te l Co. . 1 8 0 Fed. 2di 742. permanent residents, and for vhieh no maid service or linen imts provided, vae not subject to rent control as a "hotel"* fhe file Indicates that the unit vas registered as a multiple housing unit and not as a hotel and no local license m e ever that under the Rent Control Act It vas necessary to determine whether the establishment In question vas commonly known in the community as a hotel as required by the Act. This vas an apartment hotel, with maid service and linen and laundry fur­nished. registered under the old Rent Control Regulations and If so, In what capacity. X do not knov whether you have a local rent control office in U s Vegas nov or not, since rent oontr has been abolished, but possible there le someone who has the old files and records or from whom you could develop this information. X have been making a rather hurried check of the so far as we are concerned. file Heather case holds that a housing accommodation containing 69 units, which primarily was rented to tenants as Issued to It as a hotel* Xn the case, the court went off on the theory Ifcese two cases bring up the question as to whether you could determine Cl) whether the motels in question were