HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 051 1985 0916ORDINANCE NO. 51
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK,
CALIFORNIA, REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 7 OF
THE CITY OF MOORPARK AND AMENDING THE
MOORPARK MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING CHAPTER
4 TO TITLE 5 RELATIVE TO MOBILE HOME PARK
RENTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No. 7 of the City of
Moorpark is hereby repealed in its entirety.
SECTION 2. The Moorpark Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding Chapter 4 to Title 5 to read as follows.
C HAPTEP 4
MOBILE HOME PARK RENT STABILIZATION
Section 5.04.010 - Purpose and Intent.
There is presently within the City a shortage of spaces for
the location of mobile homes. Because of this shortage,
there is a low vacancy rate and rents have for several years
risen rapidly and caused concern among a substantial number
of City residents. Because of the high cost of moving
mobile homes, the potential for damage resulting therefrom,
the requirements relating to the installation of mobile
homes, including permits, landscaping and site preparation,
the lack of alternative home sites for mobile home residents
and the substantial investment of mobile homeowners in such
homes, a virtual monopoly exists in the rental of mobile
home spaces, creating a situation where park owners have
unbridled discretion and ability to exploit mobile home park
tenants. For these reasons, among others, the City Council
finds and declares it necessary to protect the owners of
mobile homes from unreasonable rent increases, while at the
same time recognizing the need of park owners to receive a
fair return on their property and rental income sufficient
to cover increases in the costs of repairs, maintenance,
insurance, employee services, additional amenities and other
costs of operation.
Section 5.04.020 - Definitions.
For the purposes of this Chapter, the terms set forth in
this Section shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Accurate." Correct mathematically on the Rent
Schedule Form and any supplemental application
material.
(2) "Capital Improvement." Any addition of betterment
made to a mobile home park which consists of more than
mere repair or replacement of existing facilities or
improvements which has a useful life of five (5) or
more years, adds to the value of the property and
appreciably prolongs its useful life and which may be
amortized in accordance with applicable Internal
Revenue Code regulations.
(3) "City staff" or "staff." The staff of the City of
Moorpark.
(4) "Complete." Rent Schedule Forms filed are filled out
properly.
(5) "Compliance." The submittal of Rent Schedule Forms
and other requested material, documentation,
information and responses to staff questions to comply
with Section 5.04.060.
(6) "Consumer Price Index." The consumer price index for
the Los Angeles, Long Beach, Anaheim, Metropolitan
Area, All Urban Consumers, All Items, for the twelve
month period ending four (4) months prior to the
effective date of the proposed rent increase (e.g. -
November effective date would be for twelve (12) month
period ending June 30).
(7) "Mobile home." A structure with dimensions larger
than eight (8) feet by forty (40) feet or size larger
than three hundred twenty (320) square feet designed
for human habitation, transported over streets and
highways to a permanent occupancy site, and installed
on the site either with or without a permanent
foundation.
(8) "Mobile home ark" or "park." An area of land in the
City where two or more mobile home spaces are rented
or leased out for mobile homes used as residences.
Mobile home park does not include developments which
sell lots for mobile homes or manufactured housing, or
which provide condominium, community apartment, or
stock cooperative ownership, even if any homes in the
development are rented or leased out. Mobile home
park includes trailer park.
(9) "Mobile home park owner" or "owner." The owner,
lessor, operator or manager of a mobile home park.
Mobile home park owner includes trailer park owner.
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(ld) "Mobile home tenant or tenant." Any person entitled
by written or oral agreement or by sufferance to
occupy a mobile home park space to the exclusion of
others. Mobile home tenant includes trailer park
tenant.
(11) "Mobile Home Park Rent Review Board" or "Board "." The
City Council of the City of Moorpark.
(12) "Net operating income." Gross income less operating
expenses. Gross income includes the sum of the gross
space rent plus other income generated as a result of
operating the park (i.e., laundry facilities,
recreational vehicle storage, etc.) plus revenue
received from the sale of utility services (gas,
water, electricity, cable TV, refuse, etc.) where such
utilities are billed individually to the tenants by
the owners. Operating expenses include the costs of
operation and maintenance, as defined on the Rent
Schedule Forms.
(13) "Operation and Maintenance." Services provided by the
owner related to the use or occupancy of a mobile home
park space, including, but not limited to, water and
sewer, natural gas, electricity, refuse removal,
management and administration (including employee
salaries and fringe benefits), maintenance and
repairs, supplies, advertising, recreation facilities,
laundry facilities, parking, security services,
insurance, property taxes, other governmental
assessments, and other costs reasonably attributable
to the operation or maintenance of the park. The term
"Operation and Maintenance" shall not include legal
fees related to rent stabilization or tenant
relations, costs incurred in proceedings related to
this Chapter, or mortgage payments, whether for
principal, interest, or both.
(14) "Rehabilitation Work." Work done on or in a mobile
home park in order to comply with an order issued by
the City of Moorpark, County of Ventura or other
public agency, or to repair damage resulting from
fire, earthquake, or other natural disaster.
(15) "Rent Schedule Forms." Forms, including any
accompanying instructions, provided by the City and
required to be filed by the owner for a proposed rent
increase.
(16) "Space rent." The consideration, including any
bonuses, benefits or gratuities, demanded or received
in connection with the use and occupancy of a space in
a mobile home park, or for services provided, but
exclusive of any amount paid for the use of a mobile
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home or trailer, or utility charges or trash charges
which are billed separately whether or not the units
are individually metered. Space rent does not include
(i) reasonable user fees for services actually
rendered to some, but not all, of the tenants of a
park or (ii) any amount paid as a result of Board
approved capital improvements or rehabilitation work.
(17) "Trailer." A structure with dimensions of eight (8)
feet by forty (40) feet or less, or a size of three
hundred twenty (320) square feet or less, designed to
be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human
habitation or for carrying persons and property,
including a trailer coach or house trailer.
Section 5.04.030 - Exemptions.
The provisions of this Chapter shall not apply to the
following:
(1) Mobile home park spaces rented for non- residential
uses.
(2) Mobile home parks, the construction of which began
after September 1, 1982 provided, however, that
additional spaces created by the expansion of existing
parks are not exempted from the provisions of this
chapter. For the purposes of this section,
"construction" shall mean the erection of structures.
(3) Mobile home parks owned, leased, managed or operated
by the United States Government, the State of
California, the County of Ventura or the City of
Moorpark.
(4) Tenancies which do not exceed an occupancy of twenty
(20) days and which do not contemplate an occupancy of
more than twenty (20) days.
(5) Mobile home parks which are occupied by less than five
mobile homes or trailers.
(6) Tenancies covered by leases or contracts which provide
for more than a month -to -month tenancy. This
exemption is only for the duration of such lease or
contract. Upon the expiration or other termination of
any such lease or contract, this Chapter shall
immediately be applicable to the tenancy.
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Section 5.04.040 - Legality of Increases
A. Compliance with Chapter.
On and after the effective date of this Chapter, it
shall be unlawful for any owner to (i) increase any space
rent, and no increase in space rent shall be effective,
unless approved by the Board as set forth in this Chapter,
or (ii) fail to comply with any provision of this Chapter.
B. Effect on leases.
In any application for a space rent increase under this
Chapter, the owner shall indicate which, if any, of the
mobile home park spaces are covered by leases or contracts
which provide for more than a month -to -month tenancy,
together with the expiration date of each such lease or
contract. Any space rent increase approved by the Board
under this Chapter shall not be applicable to spaces covered
by such leases or contracts during the terms of such leases
or contracts. Upon the expiration of each such lease or
contract the space rent contained in that lease or contract
shall remain in effect until the next rent adjustment for
the particular mobile home park is decided by the Board.
This subsection is not intended to preclude the extension or
commencement of any lease or contract.
Section 5.04.050. - Space Rent Increase The Lesser of Five
Percent or Two Thirds of the Consumer Price Index.
A. Without Majority Protest.
The procedures and fees set forth in Sections 5.04.060
shall not apply to any proposed space rent increase which
does not exceed the lesser of five percent (50) or two -
thirds (2/3) of the increase in the Consumer Price Index, of
the total space rent of each affected mobile home park
space, provided that:
(1) The proposed space rent increase is to become
effective no sooner than one (1) year from the date
the last increase became effective at the particular
mobile home park.
(2) Not less than seventy -five (75) days prior to the
effective date of the proposed increase, the owner
files with the Board a Rent Schedule Form and
supporting documentation together with proof that he
served each affected tenant, personally or by mail,
with written notice of the proposed increase. Said
notice shall state (i) the proposed rent and effective
date thereof, (ii) that the tenant may protest the
proposed increase by filing a written protest with the
Board within thirty (30) days after service of the
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notice and (iii) that a copy of the Rent Schedule
Form and supporting documentation is available to and
affected tenant free of charge upon request at the
owner's office in the particular mobile home part.
Mailed notice shall be deemed served as of the second
day after deposit in the U.S. mail, postage prepaid.
The Rent Schedule Form shall show the existing rent
and proposed new maximum rent for each affected space,
calculated according to subsection A of Section
5.04.060, and shall include documentation supporting
the requested increase in the Remainder component.
(3) The tenants of less than fifty -one percent (510) of
the spaces affected by the proposed space rent
increase file written protests with the Board within
thirty (30) days after service of the written
notice. If a majority protest is not filed, the
proposed increase shall be placed on the Board's
agenda prior to the noticed effective date of the
increase for approval as a ministerial decision. The
decision of the Board shall be final.
B. With Majority Protest.
(1) If a majority protest is filed, the proposed increase
may not be implemented by the owner unless and until
approved by the Board in accordance with the proce-
dures set forth in subsection B (1), (2), (3) and (4)
of Section 5.04.060, except that compliance with
subsection A (2) of this Section shall constitute
compliance with subsection B (1) of Section 5.04.060.
(2) The Board shall, with respect to:
(a) The Operation and Maintenance component, approve
the increase noticed by the owner, based upon a
finding that the relevant portion_ of the Rent
Schedule Form, as originally filed by the owner or
as amended by the owner prior to the close of the
hearing, is accurate, complete and in compliance
with this Section.
(b) The Remainder component, (i) approve the increase
noticed by the owner, in whole or in part, based
upon a finding that the increase, as approved,
permits a fair return and sufficient rental income
in accordance with the purpose and intent of this
Chapter or (ii) deny in total the increase noticed
by the owner, based upon a finding that an increase
is not necessary for the owner to receive a fair
return and sufficient rental income in accordance
with the purpose and intent of this Chapter.
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Section 5.04.060 - Determination of Base Rent and Allowable
Increases.
A. Basis for Determination
(1) The proposed space rent increase is to become
effective no sooner than one (1) year from the date of
the last increase became effective at the particular
mobile home park.
(2) The base rent for purposes of this section shall be
the monthly space rent in effect at the time of
adoption of this Chapter. For purposes of determining
allowable increases, the space rent, shall be divided
into two components as follows:
(a) Operation and Maintenance The portion of the
space rent attributable to the cost of Operation
and Maintenance. This component shall be increased
as necessary to cover documented increases in this
component. Increases in income _`rom other park -
related sources shall be deducted in determining
the amount of increase in costs.
In the event a mobile home park owner who does not
separately bill utilities converts from a commonly
shared metered system to each space, or when the
owner initiates a segregated charge or a separate
trash or utility billing to the space, the owner
shall file a written report of such change with the
Board on or before the effective date of the
charge. The Board shall determine the amount to be
deducted from the space rent as a result of such
separate charges or billing. Thereafter, such
charges or billings shall not be a part of space
rent.
(b) Remainder. The remainder of the space rent. This
component may be increased by not more than seventy
percent (700) of the Consumer Price Index. In no
event, however, shall the increase in this
component exceed seven percent (70). Supporting
documentation shall be filed to justify the
requested increase.
(3) Calculations of space rent increases for the
particular mobile home park, as provided in this
Section, shall be based upon the consecutive twelve
(12) month period ending four (4) months prior to the
effective date of the proposed increase. In no event,
however, shall the Operation and Maintenance component
for any month, or portion thereof, be used in the
calculations for more than one space rent increase.
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B. Procpdi1ra
(1) Not less than seventy -five (75) days prior to the
effective date of the proposed increase, the owner
shall file with the Board a Rent Schedule Form and
supporting documentation together with proof that he
served each affected tenant, personally or by mail,
with written notice of the proposed increase. The
written notice shall state (i) the proposed rent and
effective date thereof, and (ii) that a copy of the
Rent Schedule Form and supporting documentation is
available to any affected tenant free of charge upon
request at the owner's office in the particular mobile
home park. Mailed notice shall be deemed served as of
the second day after deposit in the U.S. mail, postage
prepaid. The Rent Schedule Form shall show the
existing rent and proposed new maximum rent for each
affected space, calculated according to subsection A
of this Section, and shall include documentation
supporting the requested increase in the Remainder
component.
(2) The owner shall deposit one - thousand dollars ($1,000)
as a fee to cover the costs of processing the proposed
space rent increase. Upon conclusion of such
processing, the balance of the deposited processing
fees, if any, shall be refunded to the owner. If
additional costs are incurred, the owner shall be
billed for, and shall be liable for, payment of such
additional costs.
(3) The Board shall hear any request complying with the
requirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) no later than
forty five (45) days after receipt thereof. At least
ten (10) days prior to the hearing, the Board shall
give written notice of the time and place set for the
hearing to the owner, the tenants' representative and
any person who has filed with the City Clerk a written
request to be notified. No hearing or any part
thereof may be continued beyond twenty (20) days after
the initial hearing date without the owner's consent.
If the Board approves the increase as requested, or
lower than requested, the same shall take effect as
noticed by the owner or as the Board may otherwise
direct.
(4) The Board shall make a final decision no later than
ten (10) days after the conclusion of the hearing.
The Board's decision shall be based on the
preponderance of the evidence submitted at the
hearing. The owner and all tenants requesting written
notice shall be advised of the Board's decision and
given a copy of the findings upon which the decision
is based. The decision of the Board shall be final.
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(5) The Board shall, with respect to:
(a) The Operation and Maintenance component, approve
the increase noticed by the owner, based upon a
finding that the relevant porticn of the Rent
Schedule Form, as originally filed by the owner or
as amended by the owner prior to the close of the
hearing, is accurate, complete and in compliance
with this Section.
(b) The Remainder component, (i) approve the increase
noticed by the owner, in whole or in part, based
upon a finding that the increase, as approved,
permits a fair return and sufficient rental income
in accordance with the purpose and intent of this
Chapter or (ii) deny in total the increase noticed
by the owner, based upon a finding that an increase
is not necessary for the owner to receive a fair
return and sufficient rental income in accordance
with the purpose and intent of this Chapter.
Section 5.04.070 - Discretionary Space Rent Increases.
A. Basis for Determination
(1) An owner may apply to the Board for a discretionary
space rent increase above that otherwise allowed by
Section 5.04.050 or 5.04.060 in cases where he con-
tends that the facts and circumstances of the par-
ticular case warrant such an increase. It is not the
intent of this Section to require the owner to justify
space rent increases previously approved by the Board.
(2) It shall be the responsibility of the owner to provide
sufficient supporting documentation to justify the
requested increase. The supporting documentation must
demonstrate that as a result of one or more factors,
as proposed by the owner, an increase not otherwise
allowed by Section 5.04.050 or 5.04.060 is necessary
to permit a fair return and sufficient rental income
in accordance with the purpose and intent of this
Chapter. The owner shall comply with any staff
request for additional documentation to permit
evaluation of the requested increase.
(3) No increase in space rent shall be approved because of
increased principal, interest or other expenses
resulting from:
(a) The refinancing of the mobile home park.
(b) The sale of the mobile home park, except for
changes to property taxes and /or other governmental
assessments as a result of such sale.
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(c) Capital improvements.
(d) Rehabilitation work.
B. Procedure
(1) The procedures set forth in subsection B (1), (2), (3)
and (4) of Section 5.04.060 shall be applicable to
discretionary space rent increases, except that the
initial deposit shall be fifteen hundred dollars
($1,500).
(2) The Board shall with respect to space rent increase
noticed by the owner; (i) approve the increase, in
whole or in part, based upon a finding that the
increase, as approved, permits a fair return and
sufficient rental income in accordance with the
purpose and intent of this Chapter or (ii) deny in
total the increase, based upon a finding that an
increase is not necessary for the owner to receive a
fair return and sufficient rental income in accordance
with the purpose and intent of this Chapter
Section 5.04.080 - Amortization of Capital Improvements and
Rehabilitation Work.
A. Basis for Determination
(1) An owner may apply to the Board for approval of a
Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation Work
amortization schedule within twelve (12) months after
completion of the improvement or work. It is not the
intent of this Section to require the owner to justify
the improvement or work, provided that the improvement
or work satisfies the definition of either a Capital
Improvement or Rehabilitation Work.
(2) It shall be the responsibility of the owner to provide
sufficient supporting documentation to demonstrate
that the improvement or work satisfies the definition
of either a Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation Work
and to justify the requested amortization schedule.
The owner shall comply with any staff request for
additional documentation to permit evaluation of the
requested schedule.
(3) The amortization schedule shall spread the cost of the
Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation Work uniformly
among all of the mobile home park spaces in the
particular mobile home park, including spaces covered
by leases or contracts which provide for more than a
month -to -month tenancy, unless the owner can
demonstrate with supporting documentation that the
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improvement or work does not benefit all of the spaces
or that the spaces are not uniformly benefitted.
B. Procedure
(1) The procedures set forth in subsection B (1), (2), (3)
and (4) of Section 5.04.060 shall be applicable to the
amortization schedule for a Capital Improvement or
Rehabilitation Work, except that:
(a) The owner shall file an amortization schedule in
place of a Rent Schedule Form. The schedule shall
show that the improvement or work satisfies the
definition of either a Capital Improvement or
Rehabilitation Work, the total cost of the
improvement or work and the amortization of such
cost by mobile home park space on a monthly basis.
(b) The initial deposit shall be fifteen hundred
dollars ($1,500.00).
(2) The Board shall approve, in whole or in part, the
amortization schedule noticed by the owner, based upon
findings that:
(a) The improvement or work satisfies the definition of
either a Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation
Work;
(b) The amortization schedule spreads the cost of the
Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation Work to all
of the mobile home park spaces that are benefitted,
consistent with subsection A (3) of this Section;
(c) The financing of the improvement or work is at an
interest rate that does not exceed the rate
generally available to preferred customers for
similar projects from commercial lending
institutions located in Ventura County; and
(d) The amortization schedule permits a fair return and
sufficient rental income in accordance with the
purpose and intent of this Chapter.
C. Effect of Amortization Schedule
No owner shall demand or receive in connection with the
use and occupancy of a space in a mobile home park any
consideration, including bonuses, benefits or gratuities,
for any Capital Improvement or Rehabilitation Work, unless
an amortization schedule has been approved by the Board as
set forth in this Section. The amount a tenant is to pay
pursuant to an approved amortization schedule shall be in
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addition to, and not part of, the space rent. Such amount
shall not be used in calculating any increase in spa•e rent.
Section 5.04.090 - Conduct of Board Proceedings
Meetings and hearing of the Board shall be conducted in
accordance with the following:
(1) Except as authorized by State Law, all meeting and
hearings conducted by the Board shall be open to the
public.
(2) All parties to a hearing may have assistance from an
attorney or such other person as may be designed by
said parties in presenting evidence or in setting
forth by argument their position. All witnesses shall
be sworn in and all testimony shall be under penalty
of perjury.
(3) In the event that either the owner or any interested
tenant(s) should fail to appear at the hearing at the
specified time and place, the Board may hear and
review such evidence as may be presented and make such
decisions as if both parties had been present. .
(4) All hearings shall be tape recorded. Tapes shall be
preserved for two years, or longer if requested by any
party affected by the hearing.
Section 5.04.100 - Other Actions of the Board
A. The procedures of this Chapter are intended to result in
a final decision prior to the effective date of a proposed
space rent increase. If Staff or Board actions do not
result in a final decision by the effective date of the
proposed increase, the decision shall be retroactive to the
noticed effective date. The tenants shall pay the
retroactive amount to the owner within thirty (30) days
after the decision of the Board is announced.
B. If the Board finds that a space rent increase went into
effect in violation of this Chapter, or any portion thereof,
the owner shall refund the amount of the increase to the
tenant(s) within thirty (30) days after the decision of the
Board.
Section 5.04.110 - Procedural Irreaularities
Formal rules of evidence or procedure which must be followed
in court shall not apply to the Board proceedings, except to
the extent that the Board shall determine. No action of the
Board shall be held void or invalid or be set aside by any
court on the ground of the improper admission or rejection
of evidence, or by reason of any error, irregularity,
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informality, neglect or omission (hereinafter called
"error ") as to any matter pertaining to applications,
notices, findings, records, hearings, reports,
recommendations, or any matters of procedure whatever,
unless after an examination of the entire case, including
the evidence, the court shall be of the opinion that the
error complained of was prejudicial, and that by reason of
such error the party bringing the action or suit sustained
and suffered substantial injury, and that a different result
would have been probable if such error had not occurred or
existed. There shall be no presumption that error is
prejudicial or that injury was done if error is shown.
Section 5.04.120 - Notice to New Tenants
Prior to, or at the time of, agreeing to rent a mobile home
park space to a new tenant, the owner shall provide the new
tenant with a copy of this Chapter, as currently in force.
Section 5.04.130 - Tenant's Right of Refusal
A tenant may refuse to pay any increase in space rent which
is in violation of this Chapter. Such refusal to pay shall
be a defense in any action brought to recover possession of
a mobile home park space or to collect the space rent
increase.
Section 5.04.140 - Retaliatory Eviction
Notwithstanding Section 5.04.130, in any action brought to
recover possession of a mobile home park space, the court
may consider as grounds for denial any violation of any
provision of this Chapter. Further, the determination that
the action was brought in retaliation for the exercise of
any rights conferred by this chapter shall be grounds for
denial. Any action brought within three (3) months of the
determination of a request for a space rent increase
pursuant to Section 5.04.060 or 5.04.070, including a
determinatibn made as a result of a petition filed with the
Board by a tenant pursuant to Section 5.04.050, shall be
presumed to be retaliatory; this presumption affects the
burden of proof and is rebuttable by the owner.
Section 5.04.150 - Civil Remedies
If any owner demands, accepts, receives or retains any
payment of space rent in excess of the maximum approved by
the Board under this Chapter, the tenants affected by such
violation, individually or by class action, may seek relief
in a court of competent jurisdiction for injunctive relief
or damages or both. In any such court proceeding, the
prevailing party shall be awarded his reasonable attorney's
fees and court costs. In its discretion and in addition to
any other relief granted or damages awarded, the court shall
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be empowered to award to each tenant who is a party to the
action or suit, civil damages in the sum of not more t:ian
three times the total monthly space rent demanded by the
owner from each such tenant in violation of this Chapter.
Section 5.04.160 - Termination
This Chapter shall remain in effect only until July 31, 1988
and as of that date shall expire, unless earlier repealed or
extended by the City Council.
Section 5.04.170 - Review by the Citv Council
The City Council shall review the effectiveness of this
Chapter in addressing the problems giving rise to its
enactment at least three (3) months before its expiration
and take appropriate legislative action thereon.
SECTION 3 This Section shall apply to any
mobile home park, as defined in SECTION 2 of this Ordinance,
for which a space rent increase was approved at the
particular mobile home park pursuant to Ordinance No. 7 of
the City of Moorpark, provided that the one (1) year
anniversary date of the increase will occur within seventy -
five (75) days after the effective date of this Ordinance.
(1) The owner, as defined in SECTION 2 of
this Ordinance, of such a mobile home park who files for a
space rent increase within thirty (30) days after the
effective date of this Ordinance may request on the Rent
Schedule Form that the proposed increase be approved
retroactive to an effective date that is one (1) year from
the date the last increase became effective.
(2) The Board, as defined in SECTION 2 of
this Ordinance, shall approve the requested retroactive
space rent increase, provided that the Rent Schedule Form
and supportive documentation and the processing thereof
otherwise comply with all applicable provisions of SECTION 2
of this Ordinance.
(3) Within thirty (30) days after a
retroactive rent increase is approved by the Board, the
owner shall serve each affected tenant, as defined in
SECTION 2 of this Ordinance, personally or by mail, with
written notice of the difference between the space rent
previously paid by the tenant and the approved retroactive
space rent increase. The notice shall include a statement
that the tenant shall pay the difference to the owner within
thirty (30) days after timely service of notice pursuant to
this paragraph. Mailed notice shall be deemed served as of
the second day after deposit in the U.S. mail, postage
prepaid.
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(4) If an affected tenant fails to make
timely payment pursuant to paragraph (3) of this Section,
the owner may seek in a court of competent jurisdiction such
relief as the owner is entitled to at law or in equity
pursuant to the statutes of the legislature and the judicial
decisions of the courts of this state.
SECTION 4 Severability. If any provision or
clause of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance is held to be unconstitutional or to
be otherwise invalid by a final judgment of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not affect any
other provisions or clauses or applications thereof which
can be implemented without the invalid provision or clause
or application, and to this end, the provisions and clauses
of this Ordinance are declared to be severable.
SECTION 5 This Ordinance shall take effect
thirty (30) days after its passage and adoption.
SECTION 6 The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this Ordinance; shall enter the same
in the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make
a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records
of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is
passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen (15) days
after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be
published once in the Moorpark News, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, as defined in Section 6008 of the
Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is
hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this /day of
ATTEST:
StAL
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Mayor of th`e City of
Moorpark, California
1985.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF VENTURA ) ss.
CITY OF MOORPARK )
1, DORIS D. BANKUS , City Clerk
of the City of Moorpark, Calfiornia, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 5_ was adopted by the City Council of
the City of Moorpark, at a regular meeting thereof, held on the
16th day of September , 1985, and that the same was adopted
by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmembers Weak, Yancy- Sutton,
Ferguson, Woolard and Mayor Prieto;
NOES: None;
ABSENT: None.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City
this 16th day of September • 1985.
c'=
CITY CLERK