Just cause required for covered terminations
Los Angeles Municipal Code (JCO)City law
A landlord may terminate a covered tenancy only for just cause; the summary identifies at-fault and no-fault grounds.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… Just Cause For Eviction Ordinance (JCO) Back Print September 10th, 2026 | Click here for FAQs and information about the JCO/Just Cause Enforcement fee exemptions Just Cause For Eviction Ordinance (JCO) If you own rental property in the City of Los Angeles, it may be subject to the Just Cause Ordinance (JCO). It prohibits terminations of tenancies without just cause and requires relocation assistance for no-fault evictions. Rental Units Covered Under JCO The JCO covers most residential properties in the City of Los Angeles that are not regulated by the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO). In order to apply to a tenancy, it requires that the tenant either has lived in the…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D040, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Most residential properties in Los Angeles not regulated by the RSO; the source lists additional exceptions.
- Exemptions
- The source lists exceptions including transient hotels, licensed care facilities, fraternity or sorority houses, an owner’s roommate, certain cooperatives, some nonprofit facilities, and some HACLA or government properties.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- A landlord may terminate a covered tenancy only for just cause; the summary identifies at-fault and no-fault grounds.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 50%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is CA-LOS-ANGELES.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against the year the building was built, what the building is used for; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 250 sample addresses in California on Oct 1, 2026.
- 25 applies
- 8 unknown
- 217 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 2 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 10635 Sherman Grove Ave, Los Angeles: Unknown. Unknown whether Los Angeles Municipal Code (JCO) covers this address: depends on built 1978 (year_built, LA County eGIS parcels), but the cutoff is on or before October 1, 1978 and the year alone can't settle it. Check the certificate-of-occupancy date (city building department or the landlord).