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House committee debates how to give tenants notice as rental reform shortens eviction timelines
Summary
Lawmakers and counsel questioned when a tenant is legally 'noticed' — via mail, posting or email — and whether statutes should preserve a receipt requirement while expanding rebuttable presumptions to modern methods. The committee heard that proof of mailing and presumption mechanics will affect how quickly landlords may begin ejectment proceedings.
Members of the House Committee on General and Housing spent the session parsing when tenants should be treated as having ‘received’ a notice that a landlord intends to terminate a rental agreement, a threshold that determines how quickly an ejectment can follow.
Cameron Wood of the Office of Legislative Council told the committee the statute currently defines “actual notice” as receipt of written notice delivered or mailed and creates a rebuttable presumption that mail creates receipt three days after mailing if the sender used first-class or certified…
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