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California State Landlord Tenant Law
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Statutes and laws governing the conduct of a landlord and the tenant have been properly drafted and differ from state to state.
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Listed below are some regulations under the California State Landlord-Tenant Law.
- Under the California State Landlord-Tenant Law, discrimination of a person based on the race, color, religion, sex, gender, marital status, nationality, ancestry, familial status, or any disability is unlawful. Violation of this rule is a serious offense and is punishable. This is particularly important for landlords because they should not refuse to rent out a property to a tenant based on any of the characteristics listed above.
- A landlord should also not engage in any other sort of discrimination such as a person’s medical condition, physical deformity or mental abnormality.
- Also, a landlord cannot show prejudice against families who have children below 18 years of age. This act is illegal in all situations except when the property is termed as “housing for senior citizens”. In case of housing for senior citizens, only people who are above the age of 55 years are allowed to take occupancy.
- Other situations of unlawful discrimination under the California State law include refusing to negotiate a rental, refusing to rent or lease to pregnant women, providing inferior housing facilities or services, harassment in connection with housing accommodation and terminating a tenancy agreement without any prior notice.
- In case of an owner-occupied, single-family room shared-occupancy, all the restrictions listed above are not valid. However, the owner can only just indicate preferences on the basis of gender since all the living areas including kitchen and bathroom will be shared by the roommate. Owner cannot make any written statement or issue notices indicating discrimination of any other form.
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