Department of Defense
Office of the Secretary
AGENCY:
DoD, Office of the Under Secretary (Personnel and Readiness).
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, as codified at 50 U.S.C. App. § 531, prevents a landlord from evicting a service member (or the service member's family) from a residence during a period of military service except by court order. The law as originally passed by Congress applied to monthly rents of $2400 or less. The law ( printed page 2396) requires the Department of Defense to adjust this amount annually to reflect inflation, and to publish the new amount in the Federal Register . We have applied the inflation index required by the statute: the maximum monthly rental amount for 50 U.S.C. App. § 531 (a)(1)(A)(ii) will be $2534.32 as of January 1, 2005.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
January 1, 2005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colonel C. Garcia, Officer of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, (703) 697-3387.
Dated: January 3, 2005.
L.M. Bynum,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.