california residential-lease
60 days Notice allowed for Month-to-Month rental in California?
<p>Can a California landlord require 60 days notice on a month-to-month rental agreement?</p>

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  <p>Can a California landlord require 60 days notice on a month-to-month
  rental agreement?</p>
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<p>No. California legislation does not appear to recognize clauses which <em>require</em> a tenant's notice to exceed 30 days. See <a href="http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&amp;sectionNum=1946." rel="nofollow noreferrer">Section 1946 of the California Civil Code</a>: </p>

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  <p><em>[A]s to tenancies from month to month either of the parties may terminate the same by giving at least 30 days’ written notice [...].
  It shall be competent for the parties to provide by an agreement at
  the time the tenancy is created that a notice of the intention to
  terminate the same may be given at any time not less than seven days
  before the expiration of the term thereof.</em></p>
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<p>Thus, there being a provision that allows agreements to <em>reduce</em> the notice period down to seven days, but no provision allowing agreements to <em>stretch</em> the notice period, the legislative intent seemingly is to prevent a landlord from requiring a 60-day termination notice.</p>
