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<br /> (l) TENANT means any person having the legal responsibility for the payment of rent for residential property in the City as identified under a valid lease or rental agreement with a landlord. <br /> <br />Article 3. Requirement to provide relocation assistance 4-37-300 Requirement to provide relocation assistance. No landlord shall effectuate a landlord-caused termination without paying relocation 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 Thousand Dollars ($10,000), where required by section 4-37-300, to an eligible tenant in the following amounts: (a) Three times the most current Fair Market Rents as published annually by the U.S. <br />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) is paying at the time the notice of the landlord-caused termination is delivered, whichever amount is greater. (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 /> 4-37-310 Procedures for relocation assistance payment. 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 lease or rental agreement; provided, however, if the tenant receives, as part 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 be paid to the tenant. Landlord may deduct from the relocation assistance payable <br />any and all past due rent owed by tenant during the twelve months prior to termination of <br />tenancy and may deduct from the relocation assistance any amounts paid by the landlord for any damage, 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 costs. To the extentd landlord is required to comply with an enforcement order of the City whichthat requires the payment of relocation paymentbenefits pursuant to California Health <br />& Safety Code Section 17975, et seq., then the amount of that relocation paymentbenefit shall <br />operate as a credit against any relocation assistance paid or to be paid to thea tenant under this Chapter. (b) After taking into account any adjustments in the amount of the relocation 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 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 />Formatted: Font: Italic <br />35