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S.O. 2006, c. 17 · PART X MOBILE HOME PARKS AND LAND LEASE COMMUNITIES

Section 159 — Assignment

Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 · General

The statute text

159 (1) If a tenant has sold or entered into an agreement to sell the tenant’s mobile home and the tenant asks the landlord to consent to the assignment of the site for the mobile home to the purchaser of the mobile home,

(a) clause 95 (3) (c) does not apply; and

(b) the landlord may not refuse consent to the assignment unless, on application under subsection (2), the Board determines that the landlord’s grounds for refusing consent are reasonable.

(2) The landlord may apply to the Board, within 15 days after the tenant asks the landlord to consent to the assignment, for a determination of whether the landlord’s grounds for refusing consent are reasonable.

(3) The landlord shall set out in the application the landlord’s grounds for refusing consent.

(4) If the landlord does not apply to the Board in accordance with subsections (2) and (3), or the Board determines that the landlord’s grounds for refusing consent are not reasonable, the landlord shall be deemed to have consented to the assignment.

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Reproduced under the King’s Printer for Ontario / Open Government Licence – Ontario. Confirm against the official e-Laws consolidation before relying on it.

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