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Harassment and lockouts in Maywood

Maywood's own rules on harassment and lockouts, with the code text for every value, and the state law underneath.

Each rule below links to the section of the Maywood Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Maywood's code says

Maywood code What Maywood's code adds
Prohibited acts
  • Interrupt, terminate, reduce, or fail to provide required housing services, or threaten to do so; or violate California Civil Code Sections 789.3 and 1940.2, except when necessary to comply with a court order or local or state law
    Applies: Units under Maywood's Rental Stabilization chapter (Title 8, Chapter 21); conduct done with intent to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Interrupt, terminate reduce or fail to provide housing services required by a rental agreement or by federal, state, or local housing, health or safety laws, or threaten to do so, or violate California Civil Code Sections 789.3 and 1940.2, except when necessary to comply with a court order or local or state law;
  • Failing to make required repairs and maintenance.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Fail to perform repairs and maintenance required by a rental agreement or by federal, state, or local housing, health, or safety laws;
  • Doing elective renovation or construction to harass a tenant.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Conduct elective renovation or construction of rental unit for the purpose of harassing a tenant;
  • Demanding an unreasonable amount of information in response to a reasonable accommodation request.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Request or demand an unreasonable amount of information from tenant in response to a request for reasonable accommodation.
  • Not using due diligence to finish repairs, or not following industry repair, containment, or remediation requirements.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Fail to exercise due diligence in completing repairs and maintenance once undertaken or fail to follow applicable industry repair, containment or remediation requirements designed to minimize exposure to noise, dust, lead, paint, mold, asbestos, or other building materials with potentially harmful health impacts;
  • Abusing the landlord's right to enter the unit.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Abuse the landlord's right of access into an rental unit as that right is specified in California Civil Code Section 1954.
  • Using offensive words inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Abuse the tenant with words which are offensive and inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction.
  • Trying to get a tenant to move out through fraud, intimidation, or coercion.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Influence or attempt to influence a tenant to vacate an rental unit through fraud, intimidation or coercion
  • Threatening physical harm, or repeatedly using language likely to cause fear or provoke an immediate violent reaction.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Threaten the tenant, by word or gesture, with physical harm, or repeatedly mistreat an occupant of a rental unit during in-person conservations, through social media postings or messages, or other communications, with language, verbal or written, that a reasonable person would consider likely to cause fear or provoke an immediate violent reaction.
  • Violate any law prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, AIDS, occupancy by a minor child, immigration status, source of income, gender identity or expression, or any other class protected by local, state, or federal law
    Applies: Units under Maywood's Rental Stabilization chapter (Title 8, Chapter 21); conduct done with intent to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Violate any law which prohibits discrimination based on race, gender, sexual preference, sexual orientation, ethnic background, nationality, religion, age, parenthood, marriage, pregnancy, disability, AIDS or occupancy by a minor child, immigration status, source of income, gender identity, gender expression, or any other class expressly protected by a local, state, or federal law;
  • Starting an eviction based on facts the landlord has no reasonable cause to believe, or an untenable legal theory.
    Applies: Rental Stabilization units; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate; liability only after the tenant wins a judgment; not for attorneys acting in good faith.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Take action to terminate any tenancy including service of any notice to quit or other eviction notice or bring any action to recover possession of an 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.
  • Interfering with a tenant's right to quiet use and enjoyment.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Interfere with a tenant's right to quiet use and enjoyment of the rental unit as that right is defined by California law;
  • Refusing to acknowledge or accept a tenant's lawful rent payment.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Refuse to acknowledge or accept receipt of a tenant's lawful rent payment as set forth in the rental agreement or as established by the usual practice of the parties or applicable law, or in a notice to pay rent or quit;
  • Invading privacy, e.g. entering or photographing beyond lawful entry, asking about residence, citizenship, protected status or SSN, or releasing it.
    Applies: Rental Stabilization units; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate; except as law requires or authorizes, or a social security number for tenant screening.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Interfere with a tenant's right to privacy, including, but not limited to, entering or photographing portions of a rental unit that are beyond the scope of a lawful entry or inspection, requesting information about residence or citizenship status, protected class status, or social security number, or requiring any statement, representation, or certification concerning these matters, except as required by law or in the case of a social security number, for the purpose of obtaining information to determine qualification for tenancy, or releasing such information except as required or authorized by law;
  • Removing personal property, furnishings, or other items without the tenant's prior written consent.
    Applies: Rental Stabilization units; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate; except when enforcing a legal eviction or as otherwise authorized by law.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    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 or as otherwise authorized by law;
  • Offering move-out payments more than once in 6 months after the tenant asks in writing for no more offers.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Offer payments to a tenant to vacate more than once in six (6) months, after the tenant has notified the landlord in writing that the tenant does not desire to receive further offers of payments to vacate;
  • Pressuring a tenant to move out with payment offers combined with threats or intimidation.
    Applies: Rental Stabilization units; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate; excludes good-faith settlement offers in pending eviction cases without threats or intimidation.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Attempt to coerce a tenant to vacate with offers of payment to vacate which are accompanied with threats or intimidation.
  • Refusing to cash or process a rent check or other acceptable payment for over 30 days after it is offered.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Refuse to cash or process a rent check or other form of acceptable rent payment for over thirty (30) days after it is tendered;
  • Repeated serious acts or omissions disturbing an occupant's peace, meant or likely to make them leave or give up rights.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Engage in repeated acts or omissions of such significance as to substantially interfere with or disturb the comfort, repose, peace, or quiet of any person lawfully entitled to occupancy of such rental unit and that cause, are likely to cause, or are intended to cause any person lawfully entitled to occupancy of a rental unit to vacate such rental unit or to surrender or waive any rights in relation to such occupancy;
  • Retaliating against, threatening, or interfering with tenants' rights to organize, meet, give organizers access, and distribute literature.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Retaliate, threaten, or interfere with the right of a tenant to: organize and engage in concerted activities with other tenants for the purpose of mutual aid and protection; provide property access to tenant organizers, advocates, or representatives working with or on behalf of tenants living at a property; convene tenant or tenant organization meetings in an appropriate space accessible to tenants under the terms of their rental agreement; or distribute and post literature informing other tenants of their rights and of opportunities to involve themselves in their project in common areas, including lobby areas and bulletin boards, informing other tenants of their rights and of opportunities to involved themselves in organized tenant activities;
  • Disclosing or threatening to disclose a tenant's immigration status in retaliation for protected activity or to pressure them out.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Disclose or threaten to disclose to any person or entity information about the immigration status of a tenant in retaliation for engaging in legally protected activities or to influence them to vacate;
  • Blocking the tenant from entering their own unit.
    Applies: Rental Stabilization units; to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate; unless a court order allows repossession or a local official declares the building or unit unsafe.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Prohibit entry by the tenant into the tenant's rental unit absent a judicial order permitting repossession by the landlord or a declaration by a local official that the building or unit is unsafe;
  • Soliciting sexual conduct from a tenant in exchange for protection from eviction, or other quid pro quo sexual demands.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Solicit a tenant for sexual conduct in exchange for protection from eviction or make other quid pro quo sexual demands on a tenant;
  • Retaliating against or threatening a tenant for contacting or seeking help from a government or social services agency.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Retaliate against or threaten a tenant for inquiring with, or seeking assistance from, a government or social services agency.
  • Giving false information about tenant protections, including misstating what a notice to quit or eviction notice means.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Provide false written or verbal information regarding any federal, state, or local tenant protections, including mischaracterizing the nature or effect of a notice to quit or other eviction notice.
  • Not keeping a current address for rent payments, in addition to any electronic payment options.
    Applies: Units under the Rental Stabilization chapter; done to vex, annoy, injure, or intimidate a tenant.
    § 8-17.12 · code text
    Fail to maintain a current address, in addition to any electronic payment methods, for delivery of rent payments;

The California rule underneath

Where Maywood's rule above does not cover a situation, state law still applies. For the statewide rule on its own, see Tenant harassment and lockouts in California.

CA state law The statewide rule underneath
Lockouts and self-help eviction banned
A landlord may not change locks, remove doors or windows, or remove the tenant's belongings to force a tenant out
Utility shutoffs banned
A landlord may not cut off water, heat, electricity, gas or other utilities to force a tenant out
Lockout / shutoff penalty
Actual damages plus up to $100 per day of violation, at least $250 per cause of action, and attorney's fees

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