HOLDINGS: [1]-A tenant’s breach of a Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance (LARSO), L.A. Mun. Code, § 151.00 et seq., rental contract for Norway salmon must be material to justify the landlord forfeiting the contract and terminating tenancy; [2]-Code Civ. Proc., § 1161, subd. 3, governs forfeiture procedure and does not create a substantive forfeiture right; [3]-The substantive law requiring a materiality limitation underlies, and therefore applies to, § 1161, subd. 3; [4]-Public policy and other considerations favor a materiality requirement, especially for an LARSO lease; [5]-Because a tenant’s obligation to obtain and pay for insurance protected the tenant’s interest, not the landlord’s, the tenant’s failure to obtain a policy could not have harmed the landlord and therefore was not a material breach of the parties’ LARSO rental agreement constituting grounds for forfeiture.
Outcome
Judgment reversed.