Word: controled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...within 20 days, the council does not pass, without amendments, the rent control ordinance proposed by the initiative petition, the ordinance is then automatically put to the others, who can either pass it into law, or defeat...
...council will probably meet Monday, August 11 on the rent control petition. Since Mayor Walter J. Sullivan is out of the country, city councillor Alfred E. Vellucci who serves as the City's vicemayor, will preside at the meeting...
...seems unlikely that the council will pass the ordinance at that time, since they have twice refused a request from the Cambridge Housing Convention to pass a similar rent control bill...
There has been speculation in the City, but no confirmation from any councillor, that the council would ask the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth for an advisory opinion on whether passing a rent control ordinance is within the powers of the City of Cambridge, or its voters under the state's provisions for home rule...
...rent control bill does get onto the November ballot, it must then leap two hurdles in order to become law: a simple majority of those voting on the bill must vote in favor of it, and one-third of all registered voters in Cambridge must vote for the bill...