(3) Beginning on the ninety-second day after the
expiration date of the final eviction moratorium through the one hundred
fifty-second day after the expiration date of the final eviction moratorium,
the rent due shall be equal to or greater than two months of rent; and
(4) Beginning on the one hundred fifty-third day
after the expiration date of the final eviction moratorium through the three
hundred sixty-fifth day after the expiration date of the final eviction
moratorium, the rent due shall be equal to or greater than one month rent.
For purposes of this subsection, "final
eviction moratorium" means an emergency proclamation or supplementary
proclamation, or any extension thereof, issued by the governor and relating to
wildfires, that prohibits any eviction from a residential dwelling for a
failure to pay rent, and either is not intended to be renewed by the governor
or, if renewed or extended, is not intended to include any prohibition related
to evictions from a residential dwelling unit for failure to pay rent; provided
that nothing in this section shall prevent the governor from either renewing or
issuing a new emergency proclamation that contains a prohibition against
eviction from a residential dwelling for failure to pay rent if that intention
should change.
(j) Each tenant and landlord shall be
responsible for bearing the party's own costs, including attorney's fees,
relating to the mediation.
(k) A landlord or the landlord's agent may
bring an action for rent alone at any time after the landlord has demanded
payment of past due rent and notified the tenant of the landlord's intention to
bring such an action. [L 2024, c 202, §2]
Note
Section effective on the date of the expiration of the final
eviction moratorium. L 2024, c 202, §8.