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07/23/2018 <br />D. Ensure there are no constraints on landlord raising rents at the end of the lease <br />agreement and each time the lease agreement is renewed. <br />42A.3 Definitions <br />The following words and terms as used in this Chapter shall have the meaning <br />respectively ascribed thereto: <br />A. "Landlord" means an owner, lessor or sublessor, or the agent, representative or <br />successor of any of the foregoing persons who receives, or is entitled to receive, <br />rent for the use and occupancy of any rental unit or portion thereof. <br />B. "Rent" means the consideration, including any bonus, benefit, or gratuity <br />demanded or received by a landlord or in connection with the use or occupancy <br />of a rental unit. <br />C. "Rental unit" means a dwelling (as defined by Article 2 of the Redwood City <br />Zoning Ordinance) that is used as rental housing, provided, however, that the <br />term "rental unit" shall not include: <br />1. A single-family dwelling; <br />2. Duplexes; <br />3. Rooms or accommodations in hotels and boardinghouses which are <br />rented to transient guests for a period of less than thirty (30) consecutive <br />days; <br />4. Housing accommodations in any hospital, skilled nursing, health or care <br />facility, extended -care facility, nonprofit home for the aged; <br />5. Dwelling units in which housing accommodations are shared by landlord <br />and tenant; <br />6. Secondary dwelling units; <br />7. Dwelling units in a condominium, planned unit development or community <br />apartment; <br />8. Housing accommodations rented by a medical institution which are then <br />subleased to a patient or patient's family; <br />9. Dwelling units whose rents are controlled or regulated by any government <br />unit, agency or authority, or whose rent is subsidized by any government <br />unit, agency or authority; or <br />10. Dwelling units acquired by the City or any other governmental unit, agency <br />or authority intended to be used for public purposes. <br />D. "Tenant" means a person or persons entitled by written or oral agreement to <br />occupy a rental unit to the exclusion of others. <br />E. "Lease" means a written contract used to make a legal agreement by which <br />money is paid to occupy a residential dwelling unit for a specific period of time. <br />ATTY/ORD.457/RC MIMIMUM LEASE TERMS ORDINANCE NO. 2449 <br />REV: 07-09-18 PR MUFF NO. 301 <br />Page 3 of 6 <br />