[WSBARP] King County Ordinance 19118 enacted June 23 - re residential and "small commercial" tenants

[Eric Nelsen]

I haven't seen any talk about this so I thought I would send it around-this is for unincorporated King County, based on King County ordinance passed on June 23. It's basically a prohibition on evicting based on failure to pay rent, effective as to payments missed between March 2020 and March 2021, for residential and "small commercial" tenants as defined in the ordinance. The terms seem a little squishy and lots of ambiguities I think. It has a repayment plan provision, again kind of squishy and arguable.

I think I've attached the ordinance as passed but I am not totally positive. If I got it wrong, apologies.

Here's the news release from the County<https://www.kingcounty.gov/council/news/2020/June/6-23-CB-tenant-protections-release.aspx>, which unhelpfully did not include a link to the actual ordinance.

Sincerely,

Eric

Eric C. Nelsen
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