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07/23/2018 42A.4 Requirement to Offer Minimum Lease Terms A. Offer. If a tenant or prospective tenant wishes to rent a rental unit from a landlord and the landlord wishes to rent the rental unit to the tenant or prospective tenant, the landlord must offer to the tenant or prospective tenant a written lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year. Offers must be made in writing. Signing of a lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year shall be considered an offer in writing. B. Acceptance. If the tenant or prospective tenant accepts the offer of a written lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year, this acceptance must be in writing. Signing a lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year will be considered an acceptance. C. Rejection. If the tenant or prospective tenant rejects the offer for a written lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year, this rejection must be in writing, and the landlord and tenant or prospective tenant may then enter into an agreement, oral or written, that provides for a rental term of less than one (1) year. D. Rent. If the landlord and tenant enter into a written lease which has a minimum term of one (1) year, such lease must set the rent for the rental unit at a rate or rates certain and these rates shall not otherwise be modified during the term of such lease. E. Renewal of Lease. So long as both the landlord and tenant wish to continue the rental relationship, upon the expiration of the initial written lease, or any lease renewal thereafter, which has a minimum term of one (1) year, a lease shall be offered again in accordance with the procedures of subsections A -D above. If, however, either the landlord or tenant does not wish to continue the rental relationship, then there shall be no obligation for the landlord to offer, or for the tenant to accept, any renewal of the lease. F. Applicability. This section shall not apply to: 1. A unit which is rented on or before the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, provided that, (A) if the unit is rented subject to a written lease, when the lease in effect for such unit expires, the ordinance codified in this chapter shall then apply; and (B) if the unit is rented without a written lease, the landlord shall offer a written lease to the tenant in accordance with this section, at the time of lease renewal; or 2. An owner -occupied unit that is rented to a tenant for less than one (1) year; or 3. A rental unit occupied by a tenant who subleases that unit to another tenant for less than one (1) year; or ATrY/ORD.457/RC MIMIMUM LEASE TERMS REV: 07-09-18 PR Page 4 of 6 ORDINANCE NO. 2449 MUFF NO. 301