Item 16 - Affirmation and/or Amendment of Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance

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Ordinance No. NS - ____ Page 21 of 43 I. Release information protected by the Tenant's right to privacy except as required or authorized by law; or J. Request or demand an unreasonable amount of information from Tenant in response to a request for reasonable accommodation. 3) Abuse the right of access into Residential Real Property as established by Civil Code section 1954 or other applicable law. This includes entries for inspections that are not related to necessary repairs or services; entries excessive in number; entries that improperly target certain Tenants or are used to collect evidence against the occupant or otherwise beyond the scope of an otherwise lawful entry; entries or demands for entry at times outside of normal business hours, unless for health and safety reasons or if the Tenant agrees otherwise; entries contrary to a Tenant's reasonable request to change the date or time of entry; photographing or otherwise recording portions of a Rental Unit that are beyond the scope of lawful entry or inspection; and misrepresenting the reasons for accessing Residential Real Property. 4) Influence or attempt to influence a Tenant to vacate Residential Real Property through fraud, misrepresentation, intimidation or coercion, which shall include threatening to report a Tenant to the United States Department of Homeland Security. 5) Threaten the Tenant, by word or gesture, with physical harm, or abuse Tenant with words, either orally or in writing, which are offensive and inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction. This includes words used during in-person conversations, through social media postings or messages, or other communications. 6) Violate any law which prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, sexual preference, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/ acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), occupancy by a minor child, or source of income. 7) Take action to terminate any Tenancy including service of any notice to quit or other eviction notice or bring any action to recover pos session of a Rental Unit based upon facts which the Owner has no reasonable cause to believe to be true or upon a legal theory which is untenable under the facts known to the Owner. No Owner shall be liable under this subsection for bringing an action to recover possession unless and until the Tenant has obtained a favorable termination of that action.