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Present law requires a landlord or lessor of a residential or dwelling premises to return any advance or deposit furnished by a tenant or lessee within one month after the lease termination. If the landlord or lessor retains all or a portion of the advance or deposit, the landlord or lessor is required to send an itemized statement accounting of the retained proceeds and reasons why the proceeds were not returned within one month after the tenancy terminates.
Proposed law changes present law by permitting the landlord or lessor and a tenant or lessee to agree in writing a date for the return of the advance or deposit if the date does not exceed two months after lease termination.
Proposed law also permits the landlord or lessor to send the itemized statement accounting for the retained proceeds on the date agreed by the landlord or lessor and tenant or lessee in writing not to exceed two months after the tenancy terminates.
(Amends R.S. 9:3251(A))