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city council Meeting 3-27-90
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1518 (CCS)
(city council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 4853 AND 4856 RELATING TO
TENANT RELOCATION ASSISTANCE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION L
Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4853 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 4853. Amount of Relocation
Fee. The amount of relocation fee payable
pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter
shall be determined as follows:
(a) The relocation fee shall be
determined according to the size of the
rental housing unit as follows:
Housinq unit Size
Bachelor or Single
Relocation Fee
One Bedroom
$3,000.00
$3,750.00
$4,250.00
Two Bedroom
Three Bedroom
Four or More Bedrooms
$5,250.00
$5,500.00
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(b) If a tenant is evicted from
more than one rental housing unit on a
property, the tenant shall not be entitled
to receive separate relocation fees for
each rental housing unit. The tenant
shall receive a single relocation fee
based on the combined total number of
bedrooms in the rental housing units from
which the tenant is being evicted. If one
of the rental housing units is a bachelor
or single unit, it shall be counted as a
one bedroom unit for purposes of
determining the amount of the relocation
fee (e.g., a tenant who is evicted from a
bachelor rental housing unit and a one
bedroom rental housing unit would receive
relocation benefits for a two bedroom
unit).
(c) If the rental housing unit from
which the tenant is being evicted is
furnished, Two Hundred Fifty Dollars
($250.00) shall be deducted from the
amount set forth in subsection (a) of this
section. For purposes of this subsection,
a rental housing unit shall be considered
to be furnished if the landlord has
provided substantial furnishings in each
occupied room of the rental housing unit.
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(d) If one or more of the displaced
tenants is a senior citizen or disabled
person, or is a tenant with whom a minor
child resides, and the displaced tenant(s)
occupied the rental housing unit on or
before the effective date of this Chapter,
an additional One Thousand Dollars
($1,000.00) shall be added to the amount
set forth in subsection (a) of this
section.
SECTION 2. Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 4856 is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 4856.
Tenan~s.
(a) Within two (2) working days of
the written request by the tenant, the
landlord shall deliver written
instructions to the escrow holder to
distribute all or a portion of the
relocation fee to a third party providing
moving or replacement housing to the
tenant. The instructions shall direct the
escrow holder to make the distribution
within three (3) working days of delivery
of the instructions.
(b) Within two (2) working days of
the vacation of the rental housing unit,
PaYDlen~ to Displaced
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the landlord shall deliver written
instruction to the escrow holder to
distribute the amount of the remaining
relocation fee to the displaced tenant or
displaced tenants of such rental housing
unit. The instructions shall direct the
escrow holder to make the distribution
within three (3) working days of delivery
of the instructions.
(c) The entire fee shall be paid to
a tenant who is the only displaced tenant
in a rental housing unit. If a rental
housing unit is occupied by two (2) or
more displaced tenants, the relocation fee
shall be paid to all displaced tenants
jointly. In no event shall a landlord be
liable to pay a total amount more than the
fee required by Section 4853 of this
Chapter for one rental housing unit, and
the landlord shall have no responsibility
or liability for disputes between
displaced tenants over allocation of the
relocation fee between such displaced
tenants.
(d) In the event the landlord has
been required to commence a legal action
to recover possession of the rental
housing unit and a decision is rendered or
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a judgment has been entered in favor of
the landlord prior to the tenant's
vacation of the unit, the landlord may
instruct the escrow holder to withhold
from distribution to the displaced tenant
or displaced tenants of such rental
housing units any unsatisfied monetary
award provided in such decision or
judgment in favor of the landlord. Upon
the judgment becoming final, the city
shall authorize the escrow holder to
return to the landlord the amount
withheld. If no decision has been
rendered or no judgment has been entered
for a monetary award in favor of the
landlord prior to the tenant's vacation of
the unit, the landlord must authorize the
distribution of the entire relocation fee
in accordance with Section 4856.
SECTION 3. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
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jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The city Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign and the city Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be publ ished once in the official newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective after 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT ~ftt.MYERS U
city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 27th day of March, 1990.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1518 (CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the ci ty
Council on the 13th day of March 1990; that the said ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city Council on
the 27th day of March 1990 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Abdo, Finkel, Genser, Jennings,
Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: Katz
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: Reed
ATTEST:
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PROOF OF PUBLtATION
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Los Angeles,
I am a citizen of the United States and a
resident of the County aforesaid, r am over
the age of eighteen years, and not a party to
or Interested in the above-entitled maHer. I
am the principal clerk of the printer of the
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