The lessor may object to the right to renew a lease for a specified or an unspecified duration
without having to pay an eviction indemnity in the following cases:
1°) where he shows good and proper cause for such objection;
Such cause shall either be the failure by the lessee to perform a substantial obligation under
the lease or the fact that the business of the lessee is no longer in operation.
Such cause may not be invoked unless the state of affairs continued to exist or started again
more than two months after a formal notice by the lessor through an extrajudicial act for
such facts to cease.
2°) where he intends to demolish and to rebuild the structures in which the premises rented
are located.
In this case, the lessor shall show proof of the nature and description of the planned works.
The lessee shall have the right to stay on the premises until the commencement of the
demolition works and shall have a preferential right to be granted a new lease in the
reconstructed building.
Where the rebuilt premises are for a purpose different from that of the premises under the
lease or where the lessee is not offered a lease on the new premises, the lessor shall have to
pay the lessee the eviction indemnity provided for in Article 94 above.
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In force from 17 April 1997
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