In the absence of a notice to quit, a tenant who wishes to renew his lease must apply for renewal either within the six months preceding the expiry of the lease or, where applicable, at any time during its extension.
The request for renewal must be notified to the lessor by extrajudicial act or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt . Unless otherwise stipulated or notified by the latter, it may, as well as to himself, be validly addressed to him in the person of the manager, who is deemed to have standing to receive it. If there are several owners, a request addressed to one of them shall, unless otherwise stipulated or notified, be valid in respect of all of them.
It must, on pain of nullity, reproduce the terms of the paragraph below.
Within three months of notification of the request for renewal, the lessor must, by extrajudicial act, inform the applicant whether he refuses the renewal, specifying the reasons for his refusal. If he fails to make his intentions known within this period, the lessor is deemed to have accepted the principle of renewing the previous lease.
The extrajudicial document notifying the refusal to renew must, on pain of nullity, state that the tenant who intends either to contest the refusal to renew or to request the payment of an eviction indemnity must apply to the court before the expiry of a period of two years from the date on which the refusal to renew is served.