Municipal – Rental Inspection Districts – Landlords’ Challenge 
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Published: August 31, 2010
Tags: Fairfax County Circuit Court, Judge Randy I. Bellows, Municipal, Virginia Circuit Courts
A Fairfax Circuit Court rejects plaintiff landlords’ challenge to a local ordinance that created two rental inspection districts that encompassed all of Fairfax City, and holds that the ordinance was within the express power granted under the enabling statute and the court has no authority to look behind the city council’s factual findings in support ...
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