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To the Editor:  

I read the article regarding the Rent Stabilization Board (Daily Planet, Oct. 18). The article makes reference to a recently passed “rule that any roommate added within 30 days after the signing of a lease must be placed on the lease.” This is not the case. 

When the landlord initially rents a rental unit to a tenant and authorizes more than one tenant to occupy the unit, but fails to place the name of more than one tenant on the lease, all tenants who occupy the unit within one month, with permission of the landlord, express or implied, shall be considered to be original occupants. I am concerned that the interpretation of the article might mislead tenants into thinking that their landlord must add them to the lease and, thus, create other problems as far as tenant/landlord relations.  

Darcy Jojola 

Rent Stabilization Board 

Berkeley