California law protects Fresno tenants from landlord harassment intended to force them out, including utility shut-offs, lockouts, and threats based on immigration status. Violations expose landlords to civil damages and criminal liability.
California Civil Code Section 1940.2 prohibits landlords from using force, threats, or fraud to influence a tenant to vacate, including engaging in conduct that interferes substantially with the tenant's quiet enjoyment of the dwelling. Specific prohibitions include unlawful entry, repeated unwanted contact, removing or threatening to disclose immigration status, terminating utilities, removing personal property, and changing locks. Fresno does not maintain a dedicated local anti-harassment ordinance, so state law governs. Violations are enforceable through civil suits with damages of up to two thousand dollars per violation plus actual damages, and certain conduct constitutes misdemeanor criminal harassment.
Lockouts, utility shut-offs, immigration threats, or other coercive conduct intended to push out a Fresno tenant subjects landlords to civil penalties up to two thousand per violation, damages, and possible criminal charges.
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