AB 498 (Rodriguez, Michelle D) Self-service storage facilities: lien notices: email.

Current Text: Amended: 3/17/2025 
Last Amend: 3/17/2025
Status: 3/27/2025-Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
Location: 3/25/2025-A. CONSENT CALENDAR
Summary: The California Self-Storage Facility Act authorizes a self-storage facility owner to terminate
the right of an occupant to the use of a storage space if rent or other charges due remain unpaid for
14 consecutive days by sending a lien notice and the total sum due has not been paid by the
termination date specified in the preliminary lien notice, in accordance with specified procedures.
Current law authorizes an owner to send lien notices to the occupant by email if the rental agreement
states that lien notices may be sent by email and the occupant provides a written signature on the
rental agreement consenting to receive lien notices by email. Current law specifies the ways an owner
may demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of the lien notices sent by email, including by posting the
document on the owner’s secure internet website and there is evidence demonstrating that the
occupant logged onto the licensee’s secure internet website and downloaded, printed, viewed, or
otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document. This bill, instead, would provide that an owner may
demonstrate actual delivery and receipt of a lien notice by delivering the document to the occupant’s
email address and there is evidence demonstrating that the occupant downloaded, printed, viewed,
opened, or otherwise acknowledged receipt of the document.