LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 761, as amended, Charles Calderon. Mobilehomes: rent control.
The mobilehome residency law Mobilehome
Residency Law generally regulates the terms and conditions of
mobilehome tenancies in mobilehome parks. Existing law permits rent
control in mobilehome parks. Existing law exempts certain rental
agreements relating to mobilehomes from any local measure
establishing the maximum amount that a landlord may charge a tenant
for rent.
This bill would provide, in addition, that upon the sale,
assignment, transfer, or termination of an interest in a mobilehome
or a mobilehome tenancy in a mobilehome park, the management of the
park may offer a new rental agreement containing an initial rent
that is the lesser of an amount in excess of the
maximum rent established by a local measure by specified percentages,
which would increase over the next 5 years ,
beginning January 1, 2011, up to 100% of the last-charged rent
, or market levels, as specified . The bill would except
certain mobilehome parks from its provisions, including those that
have common facilities that have been cited as health and safety
risks that remain unabated for 6 months or longer. The bill would
provide that, after an increase in initial rent, the rent should be
governed by the local measure. The bill would specify that it does
not apply to rental rate adjustments provided under a local rent
control ordinance that are in excess of what the bill's provisions
would permit , or that are not subject to a local rent control
ordinance .