Item 24 - Councilmember Requested Item to Prepare an Ordinance Prohibiting the Use of Algorithmic Pricing Tools

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(7) REAL ESTATE LESSOR.—The term "real estate lessor"means any individual, corporation, partnership, association,joint-stock company, trust, or unincorporated organization that owns real property and leases such property or any portion thereof in the form of a residential dwelling unit. SEC. 4. ENFORCEMENT. (a) Enforcement.— (1) IN GENERAL.— (A) PUBLIC ENFORCEMENT.—The Attorney General or any city, county, or district attorney may bring a civil action, as parens patriae on behalf of natural persons residing in the state, in the superior court of any county which has jurisdiction of a defendant, to secure monetary relief as provided in this section for injury sustained by those natural persons to their property by reason of any violation of this chapter. (B) PRIVATE RIGHT OF ACTION. Any person who is injured by reason of anything forbidden or declared unlawful by this chapter, may sue therefor in any court having jurisdiction in the county where the defendant resides or is found, or any agent resides or is found, or where service may be obtained, without respect to the amount in controversy. (2) UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION.—A violation of this Act shall also constitute an unfair method of competition. (3) AWARD AMOUNT.— (A) TREBLE DAMAGES.—The court shall award to the plaintiff threefold the damages sustained by the plaintiff. (B) INTEREST ON DAMAGES.—Pursuant to a motion by the plaintiff promptly made, the court may award simple interest on actual damages sustained by the plaintiff for the period beginning on the date of service of the pleading of the plaintiff setting forth a claim under this Act and ending on the date of judgment, or for any shorter period therein. (4) INVALIDITY OF PRE-DISPUTE ARBITRATION AGREEMENTS AND JOINT-ACTION WAIVERS.—At the election of the person alleging conduct constituting a violation of this section, or the named representative of a class or in a collective action alleging such conduct, no pre- dispute arbitration agreement or pre-dispute joint-action waiver shall be valid or enforceable with respect to a case which is filed under Federal, Tribal, or State or Local law and relates to a violation of this section. (5) ATTORNEYS FEES AND COSTS.--In the case of any successful action to enforce liability pursuant to this Act, the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court shall be awarded to plaintiffs. Costs and attorney fees shall be awarded to the attorney general or a city, county, or district attorney in all actions where the attorney general or the city, county, or district attorney successfully enforces this article. SEC. 5. SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such a provision to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions of this Act, and the application of such provisions to any person or circumstance shall not be affected thereby.