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<br /> (l) TENANT means any person having the legal responsibility for the payment of <br />rent for residential property in the City as identified under a valid lease or rental agreement with <br />a landlord. <br /> Article 3. Requirement to provide relocation assistance <br />4-37-300 Requirement to provide relocation assistance. <br /> No landlord shall effectuate a landlord-caused termination without paying relocation <br />assistance in accordance with this Chapter. <br /> 4-37-305 Relocation assistance. <br /> The landlord shall provide relocation assistance, in a total amount not to exceed Ten <br />Thousand Dollars ($10,000), where required by section 4-37-300, to an eligible tenant in the <br />following amounts: <br /> (a) Three times the most current Fair Market Rents as published annually by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) for the Oakland-Fremont, California <br />HUD Metro FMR Area in the Federal Register, or three times the monthly rent that the tenant(s) <br />is paying at the time the notice of the landlord-caused termination is delivered, whichever <br />amount is greater. <br /> (b) One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) for special-circumstances households. A tenant is only entitled to claim a special-circumstances household payment of One Thousand Dollars <br />($1,000) per residential property. <br /> <br />4-37-310 Procedures for relocation assistance payment. <br /> The landlord shall pay relocation assistance as follows: (a) The entire relocation assistance amount shall be paid to the tenant or tenants who <br />executed the rental agreement. If the residential property is occupied by two (2) or more <br />individuals, then relocation assistance shall be paid to the individual entitled to occupy the <br />residential property under the rental agreement; provided, however, if the tenant receives, as part <br />of the termination of tenancy, relocation assistance from a governmental agency, then the amount of that relocation assistance shall operate as a credit against any relocation assistance to <br />be paid to the tenant. Landlord may deduct from the relocation assistance payable any and all <br />past due rent owed by tenant during the twelve months prior to termination of tenancy and may <br />deduct from the relocation assistance any amounts paid by the landlord for any damage, <br />cleaning, key replacement, or other purposes served by a security deposit as defined by the rental agreement, to the extent the security deposit is insufficient to provide the amounts due for such <br />costs. To the extent landlord is required to comply with an enforcement order of the City that <br />requires the payment of relocation benefits pursuant to California Health & Safety Code Section <br />17975, et seq., then the amount of that relocation benefit shall operate as a credit against any <br />relocation assistance paid or to be paid to a tenant under this Chapter. (b) After taking into account any adjustments in the amount of the relocation <br />assistance under section 4-37-310(a), the landlord shall pay one half of the relocation assistance <br />no later than five business days following service of the notice to a tenant of landlord-caused <br />termination and one half of the relocation assistance no later than the last day of tenancy for <br />which the landlord has received rent. For landlord-caused terminations where a landlord provides a proposed rent increase that raises the rent, or proposed multiple rent increases that <br />cumulatively raise the rent, to an amount more than twelve percent (12%) greater than the base <br />43