---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3605"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3605"
heading: "Notice of conversion and opportunity to purchase; responsibility of State and local governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3605"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Condominium and Cooperative Conversion Protection and Abuse Relief"
---

# §3605. Notice of conversion and opportunity to purchase; responsibility of State and local governments


It is the sense of the Congress that, when multifamily rental housing projects are converted to condominium or cooperative use, tenants in those projects are entitled to adequate notice of the pending conversion and to receive the first opportunity to purchase units in the converted projects and that [State](/usc/15/3603.md?p=23) and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1) which have not already provided for such notice and opportunity for purchase should move toward that end. The Congress believes it is the responsibility of [State](/usc/15/3603.md?p=23) and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1) to provide for such notice and opportunity to purchase in a prompt manner. The Congress has decided not to intervene and therefore leaves this responsibility to [State](/usc/15/3603.md?p=23) and [local governments](/usc/15/34.md?p=1) to be carried out.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–399, title VI, § 606, Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1676.)