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City of Kansas City MO, Office of Tenant Advocacy, Tenant Resources

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Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and the City Council passed legislation creating a Tenant Bill of Rights, insuring the rights of tenants across Kansas City. Working with several citizen advisory and community groups including KC Tenants, the Tenant Bill

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 35 (Housing) § 35-21

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Tenants' right to counsel program. (a) Establishment. There is hereby established within the department, subject to annual appropriations, a tenants' right to counsel program ("the program") to provide high-quality legal representation in all covered proceedings. The tenant legal services

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 35 (Housing) § 35-22

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Tenants' right to counsel committee. (a) Establishment. There is hereby established a tenants' right to counsel advisory committee ("the committee") to ensure that the legislative intent of the program is fulfilled and to provide advice and recommendations to the tenant

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 34 (Health and Sanitation) § 34-848

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Complaint by tenants; retaliation prohibited. (a) In an attempt to provide an opportunity for corrective action to occur without the initiation of a field investigation, unless there are allegations of health hazardous conditions, the director may request a complainant

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 34 (Health and Sanitation) § 34-408

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Danger to inhabitants; tenants' rights. (a) If an inhabitant whose health is threatened, or that person's parents or guardian on his or her behalf, voluntarily and permanently vacates the dwelling in question, then the requirements set forth in this

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 56 (Property Maintenance Code) § 56-500

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Identification of registered agent or owner to tenant. Every owner or lessee required to file a registration statement by this article shall also provide the tenant of each rooming unit or dwelling unit in the buildings or structures described therein

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 35 (Housing) § 35-23

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Administration. (a) Tenant legal services and assistance director. There shall be established within the housing and community development department a tenant legal services and assistance director who will administer and oversee the program, as well as any necessary supporting positions

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 38 (Civil Rights) § 38-105

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made available; or c. Any person associated with that person. (9) To sexually harass a property owner or tenant. (10) To refuse to take into account a tenant's verifiable and lawful sources of income. (11) To increase charges, reduce

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 34 (Health and Sanitation) § 34-831

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Permit means a permit issued by the director for making an offer to rent to a prospective tenant or owning, operating or managing rental property. The terms "permit" and "rental permit" are used interchangeably. Permit holder means a person

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 35 (Housing) § 35-20

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property located within the City of Kansas City filed by a property owner that demands removal of a tenant from the tenant's current residence, including those seeking possession for the non-payment of rent, property, holdover, retaliatory evictions

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 48 (Nuisances) § 48-51

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shall be unlawful for a landlord to terminate the lease agreement or periodic tenancy of any tenant or otherwise retaliate against any tenant because the tenant complained to the city about nuisance activities on the landlords premises. It shall

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 34 (Health and Sanitation) § 34-857

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Refund application fees, or waive fees for renewing a previously submitted application, for prospective tenants who, as a result of violations of section 38-105 of this Code, had their rental application denied. (2) Submit all rental advertisements

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 35 (Housing) § 35-10

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accessible fashion— about laws, rules, and other policy matters, including but not limited to, the rights of tenants to safe and quality housing and owners' and tenants' rights to organize and form owner and tenant organizations, and their rights

Kansas City, MO Code of Ordinances ch. 48 (Nuisances) § 48-1

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legal or equitable interest in a parcel of real property other than a fee interest, including a lite tenant, tenant, lessee, tenant at will, tenant at sufferance or adverse possessor, as well as a person in possession or a person