SB105 Summary

• Defines an abandoned manufactured dwelling as one where the tenant has been absent for 30 days following default, lease termination/expiration, or a court order requiring vacancy due to lease violations.

• Requires community owners to provide written notice to tenants by personal delivery, certified mail, or affixing notice to the dwelling doors, and notify lienholders by certified/registered mail with return receipt no later than 14 days before sale.

• Reduces the timeframe for tenants to contact community owners after receiving notice from 45 days to 30 days to arrange removal of the abandoned dwelling.

• Authorizes community owners to store abandoned dwellings and personal property, charge reasonable storage fees (not exceeding monthly space rent), and sell the dwelling through newspaper notice published weekly for two consecutive weeks.

• Allows community owners to deduct notice costs, storage charges, unpaid rental fees, and attorney fees from sale proceeds, and permits conditioning occupancy approval for new tenants upon verification they meet rental criteria in existence at the time of original lease execution.