RTA · Mobile Home Sites Tenancies Act
Part 6 — General
63 Offences and penalties
(a) section 7(3), 20, 26, 27(3), 48, 49, 50 or 51(1) or (5),
(b) the regulations, or
(c) an order of a court made under this Act
is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than $5000.
(1.1) A landlord who fails to give the minimum required period of
notice under section 13 when terminating a tenancy for the
purposes referred to in section 13(1) is guilty of an offence and
liable to a fine of not more than $10 000.
(2) Where a corporation is convicted of an offence, every officer,
director, employee or agent of the corporation who authorized the
commission of the offence or assented to it or acquiesced or
participated in it is also guilty of an offence and is liable to the
penalty provided for in subsection (1) or (1.1).
(3) A justice who convicts a landlord of contravening section 51(1)
or (5) may, on the application of a tenant who is entitled to all or
part of a security deposit, order the landlord to pay to the tenant the
whole or part of the security deposit together with interest
calculated under section 50.
(4) If an amount that is ordered to be paid under subsection (3) is
not paid within the time ordered by the justice, the tenant may, by
filing the order, enter as a judgment in the Court of King's Bench
the amount ordered to be paid, and that judgment is enforceable
against the landlord in the same manner as if it were a judgment
RSA 2000
rendered against the landlord in the Court of King's Bench in civil
proceedings.
RSA 2000 cM-20 s63;2007 c11 s2;AR 217/2022