Legal Question in Real Estate Law in California

You were either asking the wrong questions, or talking to people who have no idea what they are talking about. A lease with an option to extend is not covered by the code sections you were provided. Those apply to a tenant who remains in possession after a lease expires. Your lease contract gives the tenant the option to extend the lease before it expires. If the tenant exercises that option, the lease does not expire until the end of the extension. Only then would the code apply.

In addition to what Mr. McCormick told you, the City of Los Angeles DOES have a rent control ordinance. Additionally, many of the cities that are in the County of Los Angeles, but outside the City of Los Angeles, have rent control ordinances.

I agree with both prior answers. 30-day (and 60-day) notices are for month-to-month, etc. periodic tenancies including holdovers. Leases expire according to their terms, and notices are unnecessary, although tenants and landlords who are on good terms often exchange courtesy reminders and other communications as termination or extension time approaches.