landlord tenant water
What laws prohibit dirty water and poor sewage systems at apartment complexes in California?
<p>What law requires habitable living conditions that require clean water and no bad sewage smells coming from the bathroom at an apartment?</p>

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<p>What law requires habitable living conditions that require clean water and no bad sewage smells coming from the bathroom at an apartment?</p>
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<p>The landlord's <em>implied warranty of habitability</em> is mentioned in <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?division=3.&amp;chapter=2.&amp;part=4.&amp;lawCode=CIV&amp;title=5." rel="nofollow noreferrer">sections 1942.3(b), 1954.06(i) of the California Civil Code</a>. It can be adduced also from other sections such as 1942.4(a)(1) regarding the &quot;<em>endanger[ment of] the life, limb, health, property, safety, or welfare of the public or the occupants of the dwelling</em>&quot;.</p>
<p>Additionally, see <a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/197462610cal3d6161589" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Green v. Superior Court</em>, 10 Cal.3d 616, 627, 637 (1974)</a>:</p>
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<p>[P]ublic policy compels landlords to bear the primary responsibility
for maintaining safe, clean and habitable housing in our state [...]
This implied warranty of habitability [...] does mean that &quot;bare
living requirements&quot; must be maintained.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.leagle.com/decision/incaco20140317034" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>Grabowiec v. Schopmeyer</em>, CoA (unpublished, March 2014)</a>, cites precedents in the sense that &quot;<em>the leaking of sewage from the bathroom plumbing, [...] lack of proper plumbing connection to sewage system in bathroom [has] supported a breach of implied warrant of habitability claim</em>&quot; (brackets added).</p>
