Senate File 198 - Introduced



                                   SENATE FILE       
                                   BY  HATCH, DVORSKY, HOGG,
                                       CONNOLLY, KREIMAN, QUIRMBACH,
                                       WOOD, DEARDEN, APPEL, KIBBIE,
                                       and SCHOENJAHN

                                       (COMPANION TO HF 57)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act to require a landlord to have good cause to terminate a
  2    mobile home space rental agreement.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1679SS 82
  5 av/cf/24

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 562B.10, subsection 4, Code 2007, is
  1  2 amended to read as follows:
  1  3    4.  Rental agreements shall be for a term of one year
  1  4 unless otherwise specified in the rental agreement.  Rental
  1  5 agreements shall be canceled by at least sixty days' written
  1  6 notice given by either party.  A notice to cancel under this
  1  7 section initiated by the landlord shall be for good cause.
  1  8 Good cause shall constitute a material noncompliance by the
  1  9 tenant with the rental agreement, a violation of this chapter,
  1 10 or a legitimate business reason.  A landlord shall not cancel
  1 11 a rental agreement solely for the purpose of making the
  1 12 tenant's mobile home space available for another mobile home.
  1 13                           EXPLANATION
  1 14    This bill provides that a landlord must have good cause
  1 15 before terminating a mobile home space rental agreement.
  1 16 "Good cause" is defined to mean a material noncompliance by
  1 17 the tenant with the rental agreement, a violation of Code
  1 18 chapter 562B, or a legitimate business reason.
  1 19 LSB 1679SS 82
  1 20 av:nh/cf/24