DISPOSICIONES GENERALES

The leasing of all classes of dwellings and of urban premises destined to any other purpose is declared of public utility and of social interest.

The benefits that this law establishes in favor of tenants are non-waivable and, consequently, contractual stipulations that contravene them shall be void.

This law shall also prevail over everything stipulated in lease or sublease contracts entered into before its entry into force.

For all the effects of this law, the following are understood as:

a)LANDLORD: The legal owner, usufructuary, lessor or sublessor of urban immovable property or of parts thereof;

b)TENANT: Whoever receives or occupies from legal lessors or sublessors of urban immovable property or parts thereof;

c)DWELLINGS: Urban immovable property or parts thereof leased for the purpose of housing the tenant and the family group that resides with him in the same lodging;

d)PREMISES: Urban immovable property or parts thereof destined to shops, warehouses, storerooms, factories, workshops, offices and businesses or activities of any other nature, whether or not of a lucrative nature, and that do not have the character of dwellings; and

e)RENT OR LEASE AMOUNT: The sum that must be paid in money or that must be compensated in any other conventional form by the tenant in exchange for the use to which the dwellings or premises are destined.

The status of urban immovable property shall be fixed exclusively by resolution of the respective Municipality.