Non-Payment of Rent Cases under the COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020 (AB 3088) The COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020 applies to all non-payment of rent cases between March 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021. Landlords will need to serve a 15 day notice to pay or quit, instead of the normal 3 day notice. The notice must include a blank declaration. Not quite. Any landlord may issue an eviction notice if you don't pay the rent or do something to break the agreement. The thing is that those properties exempted from 1482 do not need to pay you one-month's severance if the tenancy ends and they have you leave the property.