Termination of lease; conditions; applicability of section to leases entered into, renewed, or renegotiated after effective date.

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MI Code › Chapter 554 › Act Act-348-of-1972 › Section 554.601a

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Sec. 1a.

A rental agreement shall provide that a tenant who has occupied a rental unit for more than 13 months may terminate a lease by a 60-day written notice to the landlord if 1 of the following occurs:

The tenant becomes eligible during the lease term to take possession of a subsidized rental unit in senior citizen housing and provides the landlord with written proof of that eligibility.

The tenant becomes incapable during the lease term of living independently, as certified by a physician in a notarized statement.

This section applies only to leases entered into, renewed, or renegotiated after the effective date of this section, in accordance with the constitutional prohibition against impairment of contracts provided by section 10 of article I of the state constitution of 1963.

History: Add. 1995, Act 79, Imd. Eff. June 15, 1995

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