House Journal: Page 1160: Thursday, April 17, 2003
20 date of the beginning of the service member's period
21 of military service. The notice may be delivered by
22 placing it in an envelope properly stamped and
23 addressed to the lessor or the lessor's agent and
24 depositing the notice in the United States mail.
25 b. Termination of a month-to-month lease or rental
26 agreement shall not be effective until thirty days
27 after the first day on which the next rental payment
28 is due and payable after the date when notice is
29 delivered or mailed. As to all other leases or rental
30 agreements, termination shall be effective on the last
31 day of the month following the month in which notice
32 is delivered or mailed. Any unpaid rent for the
33 period preceding the termination in such cases shall
34 be computed on a pro rata basis and any rent paid in
35 advance after termination shall be refunded by the
36 lessor or the lessor's agent.
37 c. Upon application by the lessor and prior to the
38 termination period provided in the notice, a court may
39 modify or restrict any relief granted in this
40 subsection as the interests of justice and equity
41 require.
42 3. A person who knowingly seizes, holds, or
43 detains the personal effects, clothing, furniture, or
44 other property of any person who has lawfully
45 terminated a lease or rental agreement covered under
46 this section or who interferes in any manner with the
47 removal of property from the premises for the purposes
48 of subjecting the property to a claim for rent
49 accruing subsequent to the date of termination of the
50 lease or rental agreement commits a simple
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1 misdemeanor."
2 2. Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
3 word "detention" the following: "and providing a
4 penalty".
Amendment H-1285 was adopted.
Paulsen of Linn offered the following amendment H-1282 filed by
him and Struyk of Pottawattamie and moved its adoption:
H-1282
1 Amend Senate File 359, as amended, passed, and
2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
3 1. Page 1, by inserting after line 11, the
4 following:
5 "Sec. . Section 562A.27, Code 2003, is amended
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