Recent Rent Board Regulation Changes

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Regulation 1135 - Adopted the 2013 Annual General Adjustment Order. Adopted October 15, 2012. 

Regulation 884. Amended Regulation 884(B) – Other Waiver Requests, by adding subsection (12), which adds compliance with the Soft Story Ordinance as a criterion for discretionary review of waiver requests. Adopted July 30, 2012. 

Regulation 1282.  Adopted Regulation 1282 Individual Rent Adjustments for Units in Properties Where No Units Have Received a Vacancy Increase since December 31, 1998, to provide timely and fair adjustments of rents in properties where all of the units have tenancies that began before January 1, 1999. Adopted July 16, 2012. 

 Regulation 1313. Adopted Regulation 1313 Evictions under Berkeley Municipal Code Section 13.76.130A.2 [Prohibition against evictions for tenants’ failure to comply with unilateral changes in terms of tenancy]. Adopted December 20, 2011.

Regulation 403.5. Adopted Regulation 403.5 to clarify the definition of a rooming house. Adopted November 21, 2011. 

Regulation 883. Revised Regulation 883 to delete reference to automatic waivers for late payment of fees for a previously non-exempt unit (Section 883(H).  Adopted November 21, 2011. 

Regulation 1134. Adopted the 2012 Annual General Adjustment Order.  Adopted October 17, 2011. 

Regulation 702. Changed to clarify the rate of interest on security deposits to be paid to tenants when they permanently vacate rental units. Adopted April 26, 2011.

Appendix B to Chapter 12. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Information. Dated March 21, 2011.

Appendix C to Chapter 12.  HUD Lower Income Limits dated March 21, 2011. 

Appendix D to Chapter 12. Indexing of Regulation 1274(B) Rent Increase Limits for Calendar Year 2011. Dated March 21, 2011.

Regulation 1133  Adopted the 2011 Annual General Adjustment Order. Adopted October 18, 2010.

Regulation 1234   Added the 4th sentence in paragraph (A) and the word signed before “…in writing to the Board” in the 5th sentence of Section (A), and the word number after the word “…phone” in the 7th sentence in Section (A).  Adopted September 20, 2010.

Regulation 883 Revised (H) to add and all other balances due are paid within the 60 days and defined “landlord” for the purposes of this regulation, added (J) and references to it in (H) and (I), and made various other changes. Adopted December 13, 2010.

Regulation 884 Clarified the Executive Director’s role in (A), eliminating service of a 3-day notice as triggering a discretionary waiver in (B)3, added (B)9-11, establishing a new schedule in (C), defined “landlord” for this regulation in (D), and made various other changes. Adopted December 13, 2010.

Regulation 885 Added first sentence and clarified that landlord may address Board. Adopted December 13, 2010.

Regulation 702.  Amended Regulation 702 (D) – [Payment of Interest on Security Deposits] to provide a fixed method for determining the rate of interest to be paid on tenants’ security deposits upon tenants’ departure from their rental units. Adopted February 25, 2010. 

Regulation 1266.  Amended Regulation 1266 (A) – [Self Labor] to update the hourly rate to compensate for labor performed by the landlord in the operation of a rental property.  Adopted February 25, 2010.

Regulation changes prior to January 2010.