30 Day Notice to Terminate Tenancy at Will for Residential from Tenant to Landlord
§ 45-1402. Same - Month to month or quarter to quarter
tenancy; expiration of notice.
A tenancy from month to month, or from quarter to quarter,
may be terminated by a 30 days notice in writing from the landlord to the
tenant to quit, or by such a notice from the tenant to the landlord of
his intention to quit, said notice to expire, in either case, on the day
of the month from which such tenancy commenced to run.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1219; 1973 Ed.,
§ 45-902.)
§ 45-1403. Notice of termination - Tenancies at will.
A tenancy at will may be terminated by 30 days notice in writing
by either landlord or tenant.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1220; 1973 Ed.,
§ 45-903.)
§ 45-1404. Same - Tenancies by sufferance; apportionment of
rent.
A tenancy by sufferance may be terminated at any time by a
notice in writing from the landlord to the tenant to quit the premises
leased, or by such notice from the tenant to the landlord of his intention
to quit on the 30th day after the day of the service of the notice. If
such notice expires before any periodic instalment of rent falls due, according
to the terms of the tenancy, the landlord shall be entitled to a proportionate
part of such instalment to the date fixed for quitting the premises.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1221; 1973 Ed.,
§ 45-904.)
§ 45-1405. Notice not to be recalled without consent; effect
of expiration of notice.
Neither landlord nor tenant, after giving notice as aforesaid,
shall be entitled to recall the notice so given without the consent of
the other party, but after the expiration of the notice given by the tenant
as aforesaid the landlord shall be entitled to the possession as if he
had given the proper notice to quit; and after the expiration of the notice
given by the landlord as aforesaid the tenant shall be entitled to quit
as if he had given the proper notice of his intention to quit.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1222; June 30,
1902, 32 Stat. 542, ch. 1329; 1973 Ed., § 45-905.)
§ 45-1406. Service of notice to quit.
Every notice to the tenant to quit shall be served in English
and Spanish upon him personally, if he can be found, and if he can not
be found it shall be sufficient service of said notice to deliver the same
to some person of proper age upon the premises, and in the absence of such
tenant or person to post the same in some conspicuous place upon the leased
premises. If the notice is posted on the premises, a copy of the
notice shall be mailed first class U.S. mail, postage prepaid, to the premises
sought to be recovered, in the name of the person known to be in possession
of the premises, or if unknown, in the name of the person occupying the
premises, within 3 calendar days of the date of posting.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1223; 1973 Ed., §
45-906; June 29, 1984, D.C. Law 5-90, § 3, 31 DCR 2537.)
§ 45-1407. Refusal to surrender possession; double rent.
If the tenant, after having given notice of his intention
to quit as aforesaid, shall refuse, without reasonable excuse, to surrender
possession according to such notice, he shall be liable to the landlord
for rent at double the rate of rent payable according to the terms of tenancy
for all the time that the tenant shall so wrongfully hold over, to be recovered
in the same way as the rent accruing before the termination of the tenancy.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1382, ch. 854, § 1224; 1973 Ed.,
§ 45-907.)
§ 45-1408. Parties may agree to alternate notice provisions;
waiver.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing
the parties to a lease, by agreement in writing, from substituting a longer
or shorter notice to quit than is above provided or to waive all such notice.
(Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1384, ch. 854, § 1236; 1973 Ed., §
45-908.)