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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to self -service storage facility 2
liens; amending s. 83.806, F.S.; requiring the owner 3
of a self-service storage space to provide certain 4
notice to an alternative contact person under certain 5
circumstances; reducing the number of times a certain 6
advertisement must be published; authorizing the 7
advertisement to be published on certain public 8
websites; reducing the amount of time in which a sa le 9
or other disposition must take place after publication 10
of the advertisement; conforming provisions to changes 11
made by the act; amending s. 83.808, F.S.; providing 12
requirements for self -service storage space rental 13
agreements and applications for rental agreements; 14
providing an effective date. 15
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 17
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Section 1. Subsections (1) and (4) and paragraph (e) of 19
subsection (2) of section 83.806, Florida Statutes, are amended 20
to read: 21
83.806 Enforcement of lien.—An owner's lien as provided in 22
s. 83.805 may be satisfied as follows: 23
(1)(a) The owner tenant shall notify the tenant be 24
notified by written notice delivered in person, by e -mail, or by 25
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first-class mail with a certificate of mailing to the te nant's 26
last known address and conspicuously posted at the self -service 27
storage facility or on the self -contained storage unit. If the 28
owner sends notice of a pending sale of property to the tenant's 29
last known e-mail address and does not receive a response , 30
return receipt, or delivery confirmation from the same e -mail 31
address, the owner must send notice of the sale to the tenant by 32
first-class mail with a certificate of mailing to the tenant's 33
last known address before proceeding with the sale. 34
(b) If the tenant provided the owner with the contact 35
information of an alternative contact person in his or her 36
rental agreement or application for a rental agreement, the 37
owner must also provide the required notice under paragraph (a) 38
to the alternative contact pe rson. 39
(2) The notice shall include: 40
(e) The name, street address, and telephone number of the 41
owner whom the tenant or an alternative contact person, if 42
applicable, may contact to respond to the notice. 43
(4) After the expiration of the time given in t he notice, 44
an advertisement of the sale or other disposition must shall be 45
published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of 46
general circulation in the area where the self -service storage 47
facility or self-contained storage unit is located or on a 48
public website that customarily conducts or advertises personal 49
property auctions. 50
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(a) A lien sale may be conducted on a public website that 51
customarily conducts personal property auctions. The facility or 52
unit owner is not required to hold a licens e to post property 53
for online sale. Inasmuch as any sale may involve property of 54
more than one tenant, a single advertisement may be used to 55
dispose of property at any one sale. 56
(b) The advertisement must shall include: 57
1. A brief and general descripti on of what is believed to 58
constitute the personal property contained in the storage unit, 59
as provided in paragraph (2)(b). 60
2. The address of the self -service storage facility or the 61
address where the self -contained storage unit is located and the 62
name of the tenant. 63
3. The time, place, and manner of the sale or other 64
disposition. The sale or other disposition must shall take place 65
at least 10 15 days after the first publication of the 66
advertisement. 67
(c) If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the 68
area where the self-service storage facility or self -contained 69
storage unit is located, the advertisement must shall be posted 70
at least 10 days before the date of the sale or other 71
disposition in at least three conspicuous places in the 72
neighborhood where the self-service storage facility or self -73
contained storage unit is located. 74
Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 83.808, 75
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Florida Statutes, to read: 76
83.808 Contracts.— 77
(4) A rental agreement or an application for a rental 78
agreement must contain a provision informing a tenant that he or 79
she may provide the name, address, and e -mail address of an 80
alternative contact person and that the alternative contact 81
person may only be contacted for purposes of providing notice 82
under s. 83.806(1) or as otherwise permitted by the rental 83
agreement. The rental agreement or the application for the 84
rental agreement must also inform the tenant that providing the 85
name, address, and e -mail address of an alternative contact 86
person does not give th at person an interest in the contents 87
stored at the self-service storage facility or in the self -88
contained storage unit. 89
Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023. 90