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<br />Ordinance No. NS - ____ <br />Page 18 of 22 <br />4) Influence or attempt to influence a tenant to vacate residential real <br />property through fraud, misrepresentation, intimidation or coercion, <br />which shall include threatening to report a tenant to the United States <br />Department of Homeland Security. <br /> <br />5) Threaten the tenant, by word or gesture, with physical harm, or abuse <br />tenant with words, either orally or in writing, which are offensive and <br />inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction. This includes <br />words used during in-person conversations, through social media <br />postings or messages, or other communications. <br /> <br />6) Violate any law which prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, <br />sexual preference, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, <br />religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, human <br />immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome <br />(AIDS), occupancy by a minor child, or source of income. <br /> <br />7) Take action to terminate any Tenancy including service of any notice to <br />quit or other eviction notice or bring any action to recover possession <br />of a rental unit based upon facts which the Owner has no reasonable <br />cause to believe to be true or upon a legal theory which is untenable <br />under the facts known to the Owner. No Owner shall be liable under <br />this subsection for bringing an action to recover possession unless and <br />until the tenant has obtained a favorable termination of that action. <br /> <br />8) Remove from the rental unit personal property, furnishings, or any <br />other items without the prior written consent of the tenant, except when <br />done pursuant to enforcement of a legal termination of Tenancy. <br /> <br />9) Provide false written or verbal information regarding any federal, State, <br />County, or local Tenant protections, including mischaracterizing the <br />nature or effect of a notice to quit or other eviction notice. False <br />information includes, without limitation, requesting or demanding a <br />tenant: <br /> <br />A. Sign a new rental agreement not in the tenant's primary <br />language if: <br /> <br />i. rental agreement negotiations were conducted in the <br />tenant's primary language; <br /> <br />ii. The existing rental agreement is in the tenant's primary <br />language; or <br /> <br />iii. Owner is otherwise aware that the new rental agreement <br />is not in tenant's primary language. <br />City Council 7 –30 10/19/2021