| Prohibited acts |
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Interrupt, terminate, or fail to provide housing services required by the lease or applicable housing, health, or safety laws, or threaten to do so; or violate or threaten to violate California Civil Code Section 789.3. Applies: Residential rental units under any lease or other tenancy or estate at will; excluding interruptions, outages, or terminations outside the landlord’s control and properly noticed stoppages, outages, terminations, and interruptions
§ 6.08.040 · code textInterrupt, terminate, or fail to provide housing services required by lease or by federal, state, county, or local housing, health, or safety laws, or threaten to do so, or violate or threaten to violate California Civil Code Section 789.3. -
In bad faith, fail to perform repairs and maintenance required by the lease or applicable law; fail to exercise due diligence in completing repairs and maintenance; fail to follow appropriate repair, containment, or remediation protocols; conduct elective renovation or construction to harass a tenant; refuse lawful rent; refuse to cash or process acceptable payment for over thirty days; fail to maintain a current payment-delivery address; violate privacy rights; release protected information; or demand unreasonable accommodation information. Applies: Actions taken in bad faith
§ 6.08.040 · code text2. Take any of the following actions in bad faith: -
Abuse the right of access into residential real property, including improper, excessive, improperly targeted, out-of-hours, unauthorized recording, or misrepresented entries.
§ 6.08.040 · code textAbuse the right of access into residential real property as established by California Civil Code Section 1954 or other applicable law. -
Pushing a tenant to move through fraud, lies, intimidation, or coercion, including threats to report them to Homeland Security.
§ 6.08.040 · code textInfluence 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. -
Threatening physical harm, or using offensive words likely to provoke immediate violence, in person, online, or in messages.
§ 6.08.040 · code textThreaten 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. -
Violate any law prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, sexual preference, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, HIV/AIDS, occupancy by a minor child, or source of income.
§ 6.08.040 · code textViolate 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. -
Seeking eviction on facts the landlord has no reasonable cause to believe, or a legal theory the facts can't support. Applies: The landlord is liable only after the eviction case ends in the tenant's favor.
§ 6.08.040 · code textTake action to terminate any tenancy, including service of any notice to quit or other eviction notice, or bring any action to recover possession of a rental unit based upon facts which the landlord has no reasonable cause to believe to be true or upon a legal theory which is untenable under the facts known to the landlord. -
Removing the tenant's belongings, furnishings, or other items from the unit without prior written consent. Applies: Except when enforcing a legal termination of tenancy.
§ 6.08.040 · code textRemove 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. -
Provide false written or verbal information regarding tenant protections, including mischaracterizing a notice to quit or other eviction notice; demand that a tenant sign a new rental agreement not in the tenant’s designated primary language in specified circumstances; or demand a rent repayment plan by misrepresenting that tenant-protection laws require it. Applies: False information regarding federal, state, county, or local tenant protections
§ 6.08.040 · code textProvide 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. -
Ending or not renewing a tenancy, or forcing a move-out, mainly to retaliate, including to reset a stabilized unit's rent. Applies: When the tenant is not behind on rent.
§ 6.08.040 · code textIf the main intent of the landlord in terminating a tenancy or refusing to renew a tenancy is retaliatory in nature, and if the tenant is not in default as to the payment of rent, then the landlord may not terminate the tenancy or refuse to renew the tenancy or cause the tenant to quit involuntarily.
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