Ord 2021-011 Urgency Ord nonpmt of rent

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based upon the facts stated in the recitals above, and in the staff report dated March 23, 2020, as well as any oral and written testimony at the March 23, 2020 City Council meeting. This Ordinance and any moratorium that may be established thereunder is declared by the City Council to be an urgency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, welfare, or safety. The facts constituting such urgency are all of those certain facts set forth and referenced in this Ordinance and the entirety of the record before the City Council. SECTION 3. ORDINANCE The City Council hereby makes the findings contained herein and hereby adopts the uncodified Ordinance to read as follows. COVID-19 Eviction Moratorium Ordinance Section 1. Moratorium on Eviction for Nonpayment of Rent During the COVID- 19 Emergency A. During the term of this Ordinance, no landlord shall endeavor to evict a residential, mobile homeowner, or commercial tenant for nonpayment of rent, including but not limited to any such provision under Civil Code sections 798.56 et seq., 1940 et. seq., or 1954.25 et. seq., if the tenant, or mobile homeowner demonstrates that the inability to pay rent is: 1. Due to, or arising out of a substantial decrease in household or business income (including but not limited to the circumstances described in subsections B and C) or substantial out-of-pocket medical expenses; and 2. The decrease in household or business income, or out-of-pocket medical expenses, was caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, or by any local, state, or federal government response to COVID-19, and is documented in writing. For the purposes of this Ordinance, mobile homeowner also means recreational vehicle (RV) owner. B. "Substantial decrease in household income" includes but is not limited to income loss caused by COVID-19 illness or caring for a household or family member with COVID-19 illness, work closures, layoffs, job loss, a reduction in the number of compensable hours or other economic or employer impacts of COVID-19, missing work due to a minor child's school or day care closure, compliance with government health authority orders, or other similarly -caused reason resulting in loss of household income due to COVID-19, substantiated with written documentation or other objectively verifiable proof of same. C. "Substantial decrease in business income" includes, but is not limited to, income loss caused by work closures, reduction in staff reporting to work, reduction in opening hours, or reduction in consumer demand, compliance with government health authority orders, or other similarly -caused reason resulting in loss of business income due to COVID-19, substantiated with written documentation or other objectively verifiable proof of same. ORDINANCE NO. 2020-003 4