Residential Landlord-Tenant Code

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Section
521-1

Short title.

Section
521-2

Purposes; rules of construction.

Section
521-3

Supplementary general principles of law, other laws, applicable.

Section
521-4

Construction against implicit repeal.

Section
521-5

Severability.

Section
521-6

Territorial application.

Section
521-7

Exclusions from application of chapter.

Section
521-8

Definitions.

Section
521-9

Notice, notification, knowledge, etc.

Section
521-10

Duties; obligation of good faith.

Section
521-11

Time; reasonable time.

Section
521-21

Rent.

Section
521-22

Term of rental agreement.

Section
521-31

Waiver; agreement to forego rights; settlement of claims.

Section
521-32

Separation of rents and obligations to property forbidden.

Section
521-33

Landlord's waiver of liability prohibited.

Section
521-34

Authorization to confess judgment prohibited.

Section
521-35

Attorney's fees.

Section
521-36

Effect of termination.

Section
521-37

Subleases and assignments.

Section
521-38

Tenants subject to rental agreement; notice of conversions.

Section
521-39

Medical cannabis; tenant use; eviction.

Section
521-41

Landlord to supply possession of dwelling unit.

Section
521-42

Landlord to supply and maintain fit premises.

Section
521-43

Rental agreement, disclosure.

Section
521-44

Security deposits.

Section
521-45

Limitation of landlord and management liability.

Section
521-51

Tenant to maintain dwelling unit.

Section
521-52

Tenant to use properly.

Section
521-53

Access.

Section
521-54

Tenant to use and occupy.

Section
521-55

Tenant's responsibility to inform landlord.

Section
521-56

Disposition of tenant's abandoned possessions.

Section
521-61

Tenant's remedies for failure by landlord to supply possession.

Section
521-62

Tenant's remedy of termination at beginning of term.

Section
521-63

Tenant's remedy of termination at any time; unlawful removal or exclusion.

Section
521-64

Tenant's remedy of repair and deduction for minor defects.

Section
521-65

Tenant's remedies for fire or casualty damage.

Section
521-66

Tenant's right to refund of rent, etc., on termination; return of security deposit.

Section
521-67

Tenant's remedy for failure by landlord to disclose.

Section
521-68

Landlord's remedies for failure by tenant to pay rent.

Section
521-69

Landlord's remedies for tenant's waste, failure to maintain, or unlawful use.

Section
521-69.5

REPEALED.

Section
521-70

Landlord's remedies for absence, misuse, abandonment and failure to honor tenancy before occupancy.

Section
521-71

Termination of tenancy; landlord's remedies for holdover tenants.

Section
521-72

Landlord's remedies for improper use.

Section
521-73

Landlord's and tenant's remedies for abuse of access.

Section
521-74

Retaliatory evictions and rent increases prohibited.

Section
521-74.5

Recovery of possession limited.

Section
521-75

Unconscionability.

Section
521-76

REPEALED.

Section
521-77

Investigation and resolution of complaints by the office of consumer protection.

Section
521-78

Rent trust fund.

Section
521-79

Definitions.

Section
521-80

Early termination of tenancy; victims of domestic violence.

Section
521-81

Change of locks; victims of domestic violence.

Section
521-82

Court order to vacate; domestic violence.