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Ex. MET-LA-025 Order Primary source read

Resolution of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles Further Amending and Restating the County of Los Angeles COVID-19 Tenant Protections Resolution (motion of Jan. 24, 2023, with the restated Resolution and its recitals of every prior extension)

County of Los Angeles COVID-19 Tenant Protections Resolution (amended and restated)

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors (Chair's Executive Order Mar. 19, 2020; Board ratification Mar. 31, 2020; amended and restated resolutions through Jan. 24, 2023) · Los Angeles County (unincorporated areas and incorporated cities without their own moratoria) (County)

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Jurisdiction
Los Angeles County (unincorporated areas and incorporated cities without their own moratoria) · Los Angeles · California
Level
County
Authority
Cal. Gov't Code sec. 8630 et seq. (local emergency); EO N-28-20 (Mar. 16, 2020), N-37-20, N-71-20, N-80-20 (suspension of state preemption of local eviction limits); L.A. County Code chs. 8.52, 8.57 (recited)
Issued
2023-01-24 Jan. 24, 2023
Effective
Protections effective Mar. 4, 2020 (retroactive) through the Protections Period as extended (read as 2020-03-04)
End
Residential protections through Mar. 31, 2023; commercial tenant protections ended Jan. 31, 2022 (read as 2023-03-31)
In force
Mar. 4, 2020 to Mar. 31, 2023
Limitation types
Workplace rulesOther
Addressees
  • residential and commercial landlords
  • commercial tenants (nine or fewer employees; 10-100 employees; multinational and large tenants excluded from June 1, 2020)
  • mobilehome space renters
Functions reached
  • PM property management (evictions barred)
  • CM commercial leasing
  • SV servicing and collections
  • CL closings
  • CB tenants
Collection
Los Angeles MET-LA

Operative words

WHEREAS, on March 19, 2020, the Chair of the Board issued an Executive Order... [establishing] a temporary moratorium on evictions for non-payment of rent by residential or commercial tenants impacted by COVID-19, and other tenant protections... WHEREAS, on March 31, 2020, the Board ratified the Chair's Executive Order... WHEREAS, on April 14, 2020, the Board further amended the Executive Order... WHEREAS, on May 12, 2020, the Board approved... an Amended and Restated Executive Order that extended the Protections Period through June 30, 2020... on June 23, 2020, the Board extended the Protections Period through July 31, 2020... on September 1, 2020, the Board extended the Protections Period through... on January 5, 2021, the Board extended the Protections, where not preempted, through February 28, 2021... on February 23, 2021, the Board extended the Protections Period, where not preempted, through June 30, 2021... [and] extended the Protections through January 31, 2022... FOR COMMERCIAL TENANTS, THERE SHALL BE NO FURTHER EVICTION PROTECTIONS AFTER JANUARY 31, 2022.

Enforcement

Administrative fines and civil penalties under L.A. County Code chs. 8.52 and 8.57; private right of action for tenants (recited)

Notes

Primary text for the whole history of the County moratorium from Mar. 4, 2020: recitals date each extension (Mar. 19, Mar. 31, Apr. 14, May 12, June 23, Sept. 1, Oct. 13, Nov. 10, 2020; Jan. 5, Feb. 23, June 22, Sept. 28, 2021); commercial tenants with nine or fewer employees had until Sept. 30, 2021 to repay 2020 arrears

Retrieval note

The 2023 restatement is used for its recitals of the 2020-2021 instruments; the 2021 operative text is Ex. MET-LA-026.

A record of The COVID Project. The instrument's text is the source's; the summary fields are The COVID Project's reading of it. Not legal advice.