Sections
27 entriesSection 21700Establishes the act's official name as the "California Self-Service Storage Facility Act." The naming provision creates no separate duty, prohibition, deadline, monetary…Section 21701Defines self-service storage facility, owner, occupant, rental agreement, personal property, and last known address for the chapter. Excludes private-residence garages and residential…Section 21701.1Exempts storage-container transport by self-storage owners/operators or household-goods carriers from carrier regulation when transfer fees do not exceed $100, cargo insurance at…Section 21702Establishes a lien for a self-service storage facility owner and the owner's heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns on all personal property…Section 21702.5Sets priority for title-recorded vehicle or vessel liens over liens created by this chapter and requires statutory lien-sale procedures outside this chapter.…Section 21703Allows a self-service storage owner to terminate an occupant's use right when rent or charges remain unpaid for 14 consecutive days by…Section 21704Sets a form of preliminary lien notice that satisfies the referenced notice requirement, stating unpaid storage charges due for more than 14…Section 21705Allows a storage owner, after notice and nonpayment by the termination date, to deny access, enter the space, and safeguard property. Requires…Section 21706Allows a storage owner, subject to the referenced sale requirements, to sell stored property when a declaration opposing the lien sale is…Section 21707Requires advertising a storage lien sale after notice, weekly for two consecutive weeks in a qualifying newspaper or once there and once…Section 21708Allows a person with a perfected security interest to claim liened stored property by paying the total due in the preliminary lien…Section 21709Allows a person claiming rights to goods, before a lien sale, to prevent sale by paying the lien amount plus one month's…Section 21710Limits lien enforcement after an owner timely receives a valid opposition declaration to a court action, including small claims when the lien…Section 21711Allows a good-faith purchaser of goods sold to enforce a self-service-storage lien, or a judgment on that lien, to take the goods…Section 21712Requires every self-service-storage rental agreement to be written and warn that property may be liened and sold after charges remain unpaid for…Section 21712.3Requires a storage owner to notify an occupant in writing before termination or nonrenewal, including the two-day opportunity to reclaim property and…Section 21712.4Sets the notice for former occupants to reclaim storage property, with early-claim date at least two days after rental ends and reclamation…Section 21712.6Requires property described in the notice to remain at the self-service storage facility or in owner-provided safekeeping until released or disposed of…Section 21712.7Requires a storage owner to release noticed property when the former occupant timely pays rent and takes possession, or later before disposal…Section 21712.8Requires unreleased stored property to be sold publicly by competitive bidding, but allows the owner to keep, sell, destroy, or otherwise dispose…Section 21713Allows parties to a storage rental agreement to create additional rights, duties, and obligations, including a limit on the value of property…Section 21713.5Allows a storage owner to charge one late fee per unpaid rent only after at least 10 days of nonpayment and if…Section 21714Limits the chapter's application to rental agreements that are entered into, extended, or renewed after the chapter's effective date. The chapter applies…Section 21715Extends the validity of rental agreements entered before the chapter's effective date if they are not extended or renewed afterward, together with…Section 21715.2Requires self-service storage rental agreements first entered on or after January 1, 2026 to disclose initial and renewal terms, promotions, possible first-year…Section 21715.5Allows a storage owner to change rental-agreement terms after at least 30 days' written notice delivered personally, by first-class mail to the…Section 21716Establishes that the chapter's provisions are severable, so if a provision or its application to a person or circumstance is held invalid,…