Section 1942

Citation: Section 1942
Parent Document: Drouet v. Superior Court, 73 P.3d 1185 (2003)
Jurisdiction: California (state)
Effective Date: 2003-08-11
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2585536/drouet-v-superior-court/ ↗

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Tenants also relied below on a letter by the bill’s author to Governor Deukmejian in which Senator Ellis recalled the “large number of amendments,” which dealt with situations such as when “a landlord were to go temporarily out of business and then again offered his units for rental” and which declared “that the bill only extended to the right to go out of business and not any further right which the owner did not already possess (in other words—the bill does not convey a right to rezoning, to condominium conversion, etc.). [][] Despite the many amendments,” Senator Ellis explained, “the original thrust has been maintained: the good faith right to make a personal decision to go out of business for whatever reason, including potential liability, frustration with a personal service aspect of this business, psychological demands, or investment decisions.” (Sen. Ellis, sponsor of Sen. Bill No. 505 (1985-1986 Reg. Sess.), letter to Governor, Sept. 13, 1985, italics added.) Although this letter is of “very little value” to the extent it merely recounts the views of the bill’s author (Bermudez v. Municipal Court (1992) *5991 Cal.4th 855, 863, fn. 6 [4 Cal.Rptr.2d 609, 823 P.2d 1210]), we nonetheless note that it in no way bolsters Tenants’ interpretation of the statute.

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