(c) A landlord or the landlord's agent shall
provide the ten-calendar-day notice to a state-funded mediation center that
offers free mediation for residential landlord-tenant matters. All
state-funded mediation centers shall offer mediation services to landlords, or
landlords' agents, and tenants through in-person and remote means, and shall
allow mediation participants to utilize remote appearances, if requested. If a
mediation center schedules mediation within the ten-calendar-day period and the
tenant participates in the mediation, regardless of whether the scheduled
mediation session occurs within the ten-calendar-day period, the landlord or
landlord's agent shall only file a summary possession proceeding after the
expiration of twenty calendar days from the date of the tenant's receipt of the
ten-calendar-day notice, unless the tenant fails to appear at mediation or
cancels the mediation. If the tenant schedules mediation, the landlord or
landlord's agent shall participate. Mediation shall take place within thirty
days from the date that the mediation center makes contact with both the
landlord, or the landlord's agent, and tenant. Upon request by the landlord or
landlord's agent, the mediation center shall provide copies of a document or
documents verifying that the landlord or landlord's agent provided a copy of
the required ten-calendar-day notice to the mediation center.
(d) The summary possession complaint for
nonpayment of rent shall include: