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Public Order Under City of Los Angeles Emergency Authority, Commercial Leases Affected by COVID-19 (Mar. 17, 2020)

Public Order Under City of Los Angeles Emergency Authority: Commercial Leases Affected by COVID-19

Mayor Eric Garcetti · City of Los Angeles (City)

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Jurisdiction
City of Los Angeles · Los Angeles · California
Level
City
Authority
L.A. Admin. Code ch. 3, sec. 8.29; EO N-28-20 (Mar. 16, 2020)
Issued
2020-03-17 Mar. 17, 2020
Effective
2020-03-17 11:59 p.m. until Mar. 31, 2020 12:00 p.m., and 'during the pendency of the local emergency period' as to the eviction bar (read as 2020-03-17)
End
Codified and extended by Ordinance 186585 (Mar. 31, 2020; Ex. MET-LA-031) (read as 2020-06-30)
In force
Mar. 17, 2020 to June 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q2
Limitation types
Other
Addressees
  • commercial landlords in the City
Functions reached
  • CM commercial leasing
  • PM
  • SV collections
Collection
Los Angeles MET-LA

Operative words

I hereby order, effective at 11:59 p.m. tonight, until March 31, 2020 at 12:00 p.m., that: No landlord shall evict a commercial tenant in the City of Los Angeles during this local emergency period if the tenant is able to show an inability to pay rent due to circumstances related to the COVID-19 pandemic... This subsection shall remain in effect during the pendency of the local emergency period.

Enforcement

L.A. Admin. Code sec. 8.77

Notes

Recites the Mar. 15 residential moratorium and EO N-28-20's suspension of state preemption