Fiscal Note
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Repealing and recreating Section 32.08(5) of the Madison General Ordinances to require a lessor to provide written notice of denial of a residential tenancy.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This proposal requires a lessor to provide written notice of denial or non-renewal of a residential tenancy. The proposal makes the City’s ordinance consistent with Dane County by substantially adopting the language of Sec. 31.24 of the Dane County Code of Ordinances.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
Subsection (5) of Section 32.08 entitled “Housing Ownership, Defect and Information Disclosure” of the Madison General Ordinances is repealed and recreated to read as follows:
“(5) Written Reasons For Denial of or Non-Renewal of Tenancy.
(1) All applications for residential tenancy shall contain the following question in writing in a prominent place on the application: “Do you wish to receive a written explanation of the denial of tenancy? Yes____ No ____.”
(2) (a) Unless the applicant has indicated on the application that the applicant does not
want to receive a written explanation of a denial of tenancy, the lessor or any person authorized to enter into rental agreements on behalf of the lessor, shall provide any applicant who is denied tenancy with a written statement of reasons for the denial of tenancy as required by sub (4).
(b) If the applicant has indicated s/he does not want to receive a written explanation, the applicant may request a written explanation of a denial within thirty (30) days and the lessor shall provide the statement as required by sub. (4).
(3) A lessor that decides not to renew a tenant’s lease at the expiration of the lease term or terminates a periodic tenancy or tenancy at will, shall provide the affected tenant with a notice of non-renewal as required by sub. (4). The notice...
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