Iowa Code 562B.24 – Tenant’s remedies for landlord’s unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of services
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- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
562B.24 Tenant’s remedies for landlord’s unlawful ouster, exclusion or diminution of services.
If the landlord unlawfully removes or excludes the tenant from the manufactured home
community or mobile home park or willfully diminishes services to the tenant by interrupting or causing the interruption of electric, gas, water or other essential service to the tenant, the tenant may recover possession, require the restoration of essential services or terminate the rental agreement and, in either case, recover an amount not to exceed two months’ periodic rent and twice the actual damages sustained by the tenant.
[C79, 81, §562B.24]
2001 Acts, ch 153, §16
Referred to in §562B.32
If the landlord unlawfully removes or excludes the tenant from the manufactured home
community or mobile home park or willfully diminishes services to the tenant by interrupting or causing the interruption of electric, gas, water or other essential service to the tenant, the tenant may recover possession, require the restoration of essential services or terminate the rental agreement and, in either case, recover an amount not to exceed two months’ periodic rent and twice the actual damages sustained by the tenant.
[C79, 81, §562B.24]
2001 Acts, ch 153, §16
Referred to in §562B.32