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

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Ordinance No. NS - ____ Page 22 of 43 8) Remove from the Rental Unit personal property, furnishings, or any other items without the prior written consent of the Tenant, except when done pursuant to enforcement of a legal termination of Tenancy. 9) Provide false written or verbal information regarding any federal, State, County, or local Tenant protections, including mischaracterizing the nature or effect of a notice to quit or other eviction notice. False information includes, without limitation, requesting or demanding a Tenant: A. Sign a new Rental Agreement not in the Tenant's primary language if: i. Rental Agreement negotiations were conducted in the Tenant's primary language; ii. The existing Rental Agreement is in the Tenant's primary language; or iii. Owner is otherwise aware that the new Rental Agreement is not in Tenant's primary language. B. Enter into a Rent repayment plan if the Owner states, misrepresents, suggests, or implies, that the Tenant should or must do so to take advantage of Tenant protection laws that do not in fact require such plans. 10) Offer payments to: A. A Tenant to vacate more than once in six (6) months, after the Tenant has notified the Owner in writing that the Tenant does not desire to receive further offers of payments to vacate; B. Attempt to coerce Tenant to vacate accompanied with threats or intimidation. This shall not include settlement offers in pending eviction actions made in good faith and not accompanied with threats or intimidation. 11) Communicate with Tenant in a language other than Tenant's primary language for the purpose of intimidating, confusing, deceiving or annoying Tenant. 12) Interfere with a Tenant's right to quiet use and enjoyment of a Rental Unit as that right is defined by law.