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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.; revising written 3
notice requirements relating to the satisfaction of an 4
owner's lien; revising publication requirements 5
relating to advertising the sale or other disposition 6
of self-service storage facilities; amending s. 7
83.808, F.S.; requiring that rental agreements 8
authorize tenants to designate an optional alternate 9
contact for purposes of providing specified notice; 10
specifying that designating an alternate contact does 11
not give such person an interest in the contents 12
stored at a self-service storage facility or in a 13
self-contained storage unit; requiring that rental 14
agreements include a specified warning; providing an 15
effective date. 16
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 18
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Section 1. Subsections (1) and (4) of section 83.806, 20
Florida Statutes, are amended, and paragraph (f) is added to 21
subsection (2) of that section, to read: 22
83.806 Enforcement of lien. —An owner's lien as provided in 23
s. 83.805 may be satisfied as follows: 24
(1) The tenant must shall be notified by written notice 25
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delivered in person, by e -mail, or by first-class mail with a 26
certificate of mailing to the tenant's last known address and 27
the last known address of the alternate contact person 28
designated by the tenant under the rental agreement, if any, and 29
conspicuously posted at the self -service storage facility or on 30
the self-contained storage unit. If the owner sends notice of a 31
pending sale of property to the tenant's and the alternate 32
contact person's last known e-mail address and does not receive 33
a response, return receipt, or delivery confirmation from the 34
same e-mail address, the ow ner must send notice of the sale to 35
the tenant and the alternate contact person by first-class mail 36
with a certificate of mailing to the tenant's and the alternate 37
contact person's last known address before proceeding with the 38
sale. 39
(2) The notice shall include: 40
(f) If the advertisement for sale will be published on a 41
public website that customarily conducts or advertises personal 42
property auctions, the name of the website on which the 43
advertisement will be published. 44
(4) After the expiration of the t ime given in the notice, 45
an advertisement of the sale or other disposition must shall be 46
published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of 47
general circulation in the area in which where the self-service 48
storage facility or self -contained storage unit is located or 49
for 7 consecutive full days on a public website that customarily 50
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conducts or advertises personal property auctions . 51
(a) A lien sale may be conducted on a public website that 52
customarily conducts personal property auctions. The faci lity or 53
unit owner is not required to hold a license to post property 54
for online sale. Inasmuch As any sale may involve property of 55
more than one tenant, a single advertisement may be used to 56
dispose of property at any one sale. 57
(b) The advertisement must shall include: 58
1. A brief and general description of what is believed to 59
constitute the personal property contained in the storage unit, 60
as provided in paragraph (2)(b). 61
2. The address of the self -service storage facility or the 62
address at which where the self-contained storage unit is 63
located and the name of the tenant. 64
3. The time, place, and manner of the sale or other 65
disposition. The sale or other disposition shall take place at 66
least 15 days after the first publication. 67
(c) If there is no ne wspaper of general circulation in the 68
area in which where the self-service storage facility or self -69
contained storage unit is located and the owner does not publish 70
the advertisement on a public website that customarily conducts 71
or advertises personal prop erty auctions, the advertisement must 72
shall be posted at least 10 days before the date of the sale or 73
other disposition in at least three conspicuous places in the 74
neighborhood in which where the self-service storage facility or 75
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self-contained storage unit is located. 76
Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 83.808, 77
Florida Statutes, to read: 78
83.808 Contracts.— 79
(4) A rental agreement must contain the following: 80
(a) A provision authorizing the tenant to designate an 81
optional alternate contact person, which person may be contacted 82
only for purposes of providing notice under s. 83.806(1) or as 83
otherwise authorized by the rental agreement. Designating an 84
alternate contact person does not give such person an interest 85
in the contents stored at the s elf-service storage facility or 86
in the self-contained storage unit. 87
(b) A warning that, if the property is advertised for sale 88
or other disposition, a description of what is believed to 89
constitute the personal property contained in the storage unit 90
will be published in the advertisement. 91
Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024. 92