Columbia Eviction notice ordinance (§ 13-272)
Chapter 13: Licenses, Permits and Miscellaneous Business Regulations · Article XI. Manufactured or Mobile Home Land Lease Communities
In short: A manufactured or mobile home community landlord must give tenants and home owners written notice at least 180 days (or the time left on the lease, if longer) before requiring them to leave for a change in use or closing. No rent increases in the 60 days before notice or after it, except for property tax increases, and rent is waived for the last three months. Abatement applies only to rental agreements entered into after November 7, 2011. Landlords may still evict on shorter notice for lease violations or as otherwise allowed by law.
Our plain-English summary, not the official text or legal advice. The ordinance below is what counts.
(a) A landlord of a manufactured or mobile home land lease community shall provide written notice to all of the community's tenants and owners of manufactured or mobile homes at least one hundred eighty
(180) days prior to requiring such tenants to vacate the property due to a change in use of the property or the closing of the community. In cases where more than one hundred eighty (180) days remain on a current lease, the longer time period shall apply for purposes of providing notice pursuant to this section. The landlord shall not increase the rent, except for rent increase based solely on an increase in property taxes, for any tenant of the manufactured or mobile home land lease community during the sixty-day period prior to providing such notice or at any time after providing such notice. Rent shall be abated for the last three (3) months of the one hundred eighty-day notice period.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant with less than one hundred eighty (180) days' notice for a violation of the lease or as otherwise provided by law.
(c) The rent abatement provided for in subsection (a) shall only apply to rental agreements entered into after November 7, 2011.
Official source: City of Columbia official Code of Ordinances (online): look up Sec. 13-272
Text from Supplement 139 (September 3, 2026).
Last checked November 1, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.