s.233 — Offences requiring knowledge

233 A person is guilty of an offence if the person knowingly, (a) withholds the reasonable supply of a vital service, care service or food or interferes with the supply in contravention of section 21; (b) alters or causes to be altered the locking system on any door giving entry to a rental unit or the residential complex in a manner that contravenes section 24 or 35; (c) restricts reasonable access to the residential complex by political candidates or their authorized representatives in contravention of section 28; (d) seizes any property of the tenant in contravention of section 40; (d.1) provides false or misleading information in connection with the giving of a notice under subsection 47.1 (1) or 47.2 (1); (e) fails to afford a tenant a right of first refusal in contravention of section 51 or 53; (f) recovers possession of a rental unit without complying with the requirements of section 48.1, 49.1, 52, 54 or 55; (g) coerces a tenant to sign an agreement referred to in section 121; (h) harasses, hinders, obstructs or interferes with a tenant in the exercise of, (i) securing a right or seeking relief under this Act or in a court, (ii) participating in a proceeding under this Act, or (iii) participating in a tenants’ association or attempting to organize a tenants’ association; (i) harasses, coerces, threatens or interferes with a tenant in such a manner that the tenant is induced to vacate the rental unit; (j) harasses, hinders, obstructs or interferes with a landlord in the exercise of, (i) securing a right or seeking relief under this Act or in a court, or (ii) participating in a proceeding under this Act; (k) obtains possession of a rental unit improperly by giving a notice to terminate in bad faith; or (l) coerces a tenant of a mobile home park or land lease community to enter into an agency agreement for the sale or lease of their mobile home or land lease home or requires an agency agreement as a condition of entering into a tenancy agreement.  ; ; ;