[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: 24CFR983.209]

[Page 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.  983.209  Owner certification.

    By execution of the HAP contract, the owner certifies that at such 
execution and at all times during the term of the HAP contract:
    (a) All contract units are in good and tenantable condition. The 
owner is maintaining the premises and all contract units in accordance 
with the HQS.
    (b) The owner is providing all the services, maintenance, equipment, 
and utilities as agreed to under the HAP contract and the leases with 
assisted families.
    (c) Each contract unit for which the owner is receiving housing 
assistance payments is leased to an eligible family referred by the PHA, 
and the lease is in accordance with the HAP contract and HUD 
requirements.
    (d) To the best of the owner's knowledge, the members of the family 
reside in each contract unit for which the owner is receiving housing 
assistance payments, and the unit is the family's only residence.
    (e) The owner (including a principal or other interested party) is 
not the spouse, parent, child, grandparent, grandchild, sister, or 
brother of any member of a family residing in a contract unit.
    (f) The amount of the housing assistance payment is the correct 
amount due under the HAP contract.
    (g) The rent to owner for each contract unit does not exceed rents 
charged by the owner for other comparable unassisted units.
    (h) Except for the housing assistance payment and the tenant rent as 
provided under the HAP contract, the owner has not received and will not 
receive any payment or other consideration (from the family, the PHA, 
HUD, or any other public or private source) for rental of the contract 
unit.
    (i) The family does not own or have any interest in the contract 
unit.