Title: Self-Service Storage Facilities

Summary: Provides that advertisement of sale or disposition of property may be published on certain websites; deletes required alternative form of advertisement.

Full Text:
An act relating to self-service storage facilities; amending s. 83.806, F.S.; providing that advertisement of a sale or disposition of property may be published on certain websites; deleting a required alternative form of advertisement; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 83.806, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 83.806 Enforcement of lien.-An owner's lien as provided in s. 83.805 may be satisfied as follows: (4) After the expiration of the time given in the notice, an advertisement of the sale or other disposition shall be published once a week for consecuti ve weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the area where the self-service storage facility or self-contained storage unit is located or published continuously for consecutive days on a public website that customarily conducts personal property a uctions. (a) A lien sale may be conducted on a public website that customarily conducts personal property auctions. The facility or unit owner is not required to hold a license to post property for online sale. Inasmuch as any sale may involve property of more than one tenant, a single advertisement may be used to CS/HB 2018 dispose of property at any one sale. (b) The advertisement shall include: 1. A brief and general description of what is believed to constitute the personal property contained in the storage unit, as provided in paragraph (2)(b). 2. The address of the self-service storage facility or the address where the self-contained storage unit is located and the name of the tenant. 3. The time, place, and manner of the sale or other disposition. The sale or other disposition shall take place at least days after the first publication. (c) If there is no newspaper of general circulation in the area where the self-service storage facility or self-contained storage unit is located, the advertisement shall be posted at least days before the date of the sale or other disposition in at least three conspicuous places in the neighborhood where the self-service storage facility or self-contained storage unit is located. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.