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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowThe Indiana Supreme Court is preparing to review the constitutionality of a 2015 state law targeting the city of Hammond’s rental registration revenue.
The Times of Northwest Indiana reported that the state’s high court will hear oral arguments Thursday about a law limiting housing rental registration fees to $5 per unit per year. The law exempts Bloomington and West Lafayette due to their unique rental market as college towns, but applies to Hammond, which charges rental registration fees of $80 per unit.
The Indiana Court of Appeals struck down the law in February, concluding that lawmakers violated the constitutional ban on special laws “relating to fees or salaries” by allowing only the two college towns to charge a rental registration fee distinct from what applies across the rest of Indiana.
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