[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 4]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR983.207]

[Page 667-668]
 
                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
CHAPTER IX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING, 
 
PART 983_PROJECT-BASED VOUCHER (PBV) PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart E_Housing Assistance Payments Contract
 
Sec.  983.207  Condition of contract units.

    (a) Owner maintenance and operation. (1) The owner must maintain and 
operate the contract units and premises in accordance with the HQS, 
including performance of ordinary and extraordinary maintenance.
    (2) The owner must provide all the services, maintenance, equipment, 
and utilities specified in the HAP contract with the PHA and in the 
lease with each assisted family.
    (3) At the discretion of the PHA, the HAP contract may also require 
continuing owner compliance during the HAP term with additional housing 
quality requirements specified by the PHA (in addition to, but not in 
place

[[Page 668]]

of, compliance with the HUD-prescribed HQS). Such additional 
requirements may be designed to assure continued compliance with any 
design, architecture, or quality requirement specified in the Agreement.
    (b) Remedies for HQS violation. (1) The PHA must vigorously enforce 
the owner's obligation to maintain contract units in accordance with the 
HQS. The PHA may not make any HAP payment to the owner for a contract 
unit covering any period during which the contract unit does not comply 
with the HQS.
    (2) If the PHA determines that a contract unit is not in accordance 
with the housing quality standards (or other HAP contract requirement), 
the PHA may exercise any of its remedies under the HAP contract for all 
or any contract units. Such remedies include termination of housing 
assistance payments, abatement or reduction of housing assistance 
payments, reduction of contract units, and termination of the HAP 
contract.
    (c) Maintenance and replacement--Owner's standard practice. 
Maintenance and replacement (including redecoration) must be in 
accordance with the standard practice for the building concerned as 
established by the owner.