Chapter 2 - HIRING OF REAL PROPERTY

Section 1940 - Applicability; not included in term persons who hire; dwelling unit defined
Section 1940.05 - Immigration or citizenship status defined
Section 1940.1 - Requiring occupant of residential hotel to move or check out and reregister to maintain transient occupancy status
Section 1940.2 - Unlawful acts for purpose of influencing tenant to vacate
Section 1940.20 - Use of clothesline or drying rack
Section 1940.3 - Immigration or citizenship status of tenant
Section 1940.35 - Unlawful disclosures
Section 1940.4 - Posting or displaying political signs
Section 1940.41 - Personal micromobility devices
Section 1940.45 - Restrictions on display of religious items on entry doors
Section 1940.5 - Refusal to rent based on possession of waterbed
Section 1940.6 - Notice of application for permit to demolish residential dwelling
Section 1940.7 - Notice of actual knowledge of former federal or state ordnance locations in neighborhood area
Section 1940.7.5 - [Repealed]
Section 1940.8 - Copy of notice provided by registered structural pest control company
Section 1940.8.5 - Notice to tenants regarding use of pesticides
Section 1940.9 - Disclosure that tenant's gas and electric meter serves area outside tenant's dwelling unit
Section 1940.10 - Personal agriculture in private areas
Section 1941 - Duty to put building in condition fit for human occupancy and repair subsequent dilapidations
Section 1941.1 - Dwelling deemed untenantable
Section 1941.2 - Tenant's violations contributes to existence of dilapidation or interferes with duty to repair
Section 1941.3 - Duty to install dead bolt locks
Section 1941.4 - Installing telephone jacks and wiring
Section 1941.5 - [Repealed Effective 1/1/2025] Changing locks of protected tenant's dwelling unit upon request of protected tenant
Section 1941.5 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Changing locks of eligible tenant's dwelling unit upon request of eligible tenant; documentation required
Section 1941.6 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Changing locks of protected tenant's dwelling unit upon request of protected tenant
Section 1941.6 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Changing locks of protected tenant's dwelling unit when restrained person is also a tenant
Section 1941.7 - Repair of dilapidation relating to mold
Section 1942 - Repair of dilapidations by tenant
Section 1942.1 - Agreement waiving or modifying rights under section 1941 or 1942 void; agreement to arbitrate
Section 1942.2 - Deduction of utility payment from rent
Section 1942.3 - Rebuttable presumption landlord breached habitability requirements in unlawful detainer action
Section 1942.4 - Conditions prohibiting landlord from demanding rent, collecting rent, issuing notice of rent increase
Section 1942.5 - Retaliation by lessor against lessee for exercising rights under chapter
Section 1942.6 - Person entering property upon invitation of occupant to provide information regarding tenants' right or participation in lessees' association
Section 1942.7 - Prohibited acts when animal allowed on premises
Section 1942.8 - [Repealed]
Section 1942.9 - Prohibited actions against tenant who has submitted declaration of COVID-19 related financial distress
Section 1943 - Month to month tenancy presumed, exception
Section 1944 - Hiring for unspecified term
Section 1945 - Lessee remaining in possession after expiration and rent accepted by lessor
Section 1945.5 - Automatic renewal and extension of lease provision
Section 1946 - Renewal of hiring for term not specified by parties
Section 1946.1 - Notice of intention terminate hiring for term not specified by parties
Section 1946.2 - [Effective Until 1/1/2030] Termination without just cause of tenancy after continuous and lawful occupation
Section 1946.5 - Notice of termination of hiring of room by lodger on periodic basis
Section 1946.7 - Notice by victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, elder abuse, and certain other crimes of intent to terminate
Section 1946.8 - Provisions limiting right to summon law enforcement or emergency assistance
Section 1946.9 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Lock change request and status as victim of abuse or violence not to impact tenant screening; violations; penalties
Section 1947 - Rents payable at termination of holding not exceeding one year
Section 1947.1 - Unbundled parking
Section 1947.3 - Form of payment of rent
Section 1947.5 - Prohibition of smoking of cigarettes or other tobacco products
Section 1947.7 - Remedies for failure to comply with local rent stabilization programs
Section 1947.6 - Rental property; electric vehicle charging stations
Section 1947.8 - Establishment and certification of permissible rent levels
Section 1947.9 - Temporary displacement of tenant household in units governed by San Francisco rent stabilization program
Section 1947.10 - Eviction by owner of residential rental unit governed by local rent stabilization program
Section 1947.11 - Owner charging rent in excess of certified rent level established under local rent stabilization program
Section 1947.12 - [Effective Until 1/1/2030] Caps on rental rates
Section 1947.13 - [Effective until 1/1/2030] Expiration of rental restrictions; establishment of initial unassisted rental rates for units without regard to caps
Section 1947.15 - Expenses, fees and costs for professional services incurred in pursuing rights under local rent stabilization program
Section 1948 - Attornment of tenant to stranger
Section 1949 - Duty to inform landlord upon receiving notice of proceeding to recover real property occupied by tenant
Section 1950 - Entitlement to possession of whole room
Section 1950.1 - Reusable tenant screening reports
Section 1950.5 - Security for rental agreement
Section 1950.6 - Application screening fee
Section 1950.7 - Deposit to secure performance of rental agreement for other than residential property
Section 1950.8 - Demanding payment as condition of initiating, continuing or renewing lease of commercial or nonresidential tenancies
Section 1951 - Rent and lease defined
Section 1951.2 - Recovery by lessor upon breach of lease and abandonment of property by lessee
Section 1951.3 - Notice by lessor of belief of abandonment
Section 1951.35 - Abandonment of commercial property
Section 1951.4 - Continuation of lease and enforcement of rights and remedies even though lessee breaches lease and abandons property
Section 1951.5 - Liquidated damages
Section 1951.7 - Notice that property relet
Section 1951.8 - Lessor's right to equitable relief
Section 1952 - Separate right of action for relief not recoverable in unlawful detainer proceeding
Section 1952.2 - Inapplicability of sections 1951 to 1952
Section 1952.3 - Unlawful detainer proceeding becomes ordinary civil action where possession of property no longer issue
Section 1952.4 - Agreement for exploration for or removal of natural resources not lease of real property
Section 1952.6 - Inapplicability of sections 1951 to1952.2 to lease between public entity and nonprofit corporation
Section 1952.7 - Prohibitions on installation of electric vehicle charging stations void
Section 1952.8 - Vapor control system required for lease of gasoline service station
Section 1953 - Agreement to modify or waive rights
Section 1954 - Entry of dwelling by landlord
Section 1954.05 - Right of assignee for benefit of creditors to occupy business premises held under lease by assignor
Section 1954.06 - [Effective until 7/1/2025] Reporting rental payment information to consumer reporting agency