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California Civil Code Section 2929.5

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(a) A secured lender may enter and inspect the real
property security for the purpose of determining the existence,
location, nature, and magnitude of any past or present release or
threatened release of any hazardous substance into, onto, beneath, or
from the real property security on either of the following:
   (1) Upon reasonable belief of the existence of a past or present
release or threatened release of any hazardous substance into, onto,
beneath, or from the real property security not previously disclosed
in writing to the secured lender in conjunction with the making,
renewal, or modification of a loan, extension of credit, guaranty, or
other obligation involving the borrower.
   (2) After the commencement of nonjudicial or judicial foreclosure
proceedings against the real property security.
   (b) The secured lender shall not abuse the right of entry and
inspection or use it to harass the borrower or tenant of the
property.  Except in case of an emergency, when the borrower or
tenant of the property has abandoned the premises, or if it is
impracticable to do so, the secured lender shall give the borrower or
tenant of the property reasonable notice of the secured lender's
intent to enter, and enter only during the borrower's or tenant's
normal business hours.  Twenty-four hours' notice shall be presumed
to be reasonable notice in the absence of evidence to the contrary.
   (c) The secured lender shall reimburse the borrower for the cost
of repair of any physical injury to the real property security caused
by the entry and inspection.
   (d) If a secured lender is refused the right of entry and
inspection by the borrower or tenant of the property, or is otherwise
unable to enter and inspect the property without a breach of the
peace, the secured lender may, upon petition, obtain an order from a
court of competent jurisdiction to exercise the secured lender's
rights under subdivision (a), and that action shall not constitute an
action within the meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 726 of the
Code of Civil Procedure.
   (e) For purposes of this section:
   (1) "Borrower" means the trustor under a deed of trust, or a
mortgagor under a mortgage, where the deed of trust or mortgage
encumbers real property security and secures the performance of the
trustor or mortgagor under a loan, extension of credit, guaranty, or
other obligation.  The term includes any successor-in-interest of the
trustor or mortgagor to the real property security before the deed
of trust or mortgage has been discharged, reconveyed, or foreclosed
upon.
   (2) "Hazardous substance"  includes all of the following:
   (A) Any "hazardous substance" as defined in subdivision (h) of
Section 25281 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (B) Any "waste" as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 13050 of
the Water Code.
   (C) Petroleum, including crude oil or any fraction thereof,
natural gas, natural gas liquids, liquefied natural gas, or synthetic
gas usable for fuel, or any mixture thereof.
   (3) "Real property security" means any real property and
improvements, other than a separate interest and any related interest
in the common area of a residential common interest development, as
the terms "separate interest," "common area," and "common interest
development" are defined in Section 1351, or real property consisting
of one acre or less which contains 1 to 15 dwelling units.
   (4) "Release" means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring,
emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching,
dumping, or disposing into the environment, including continuing
migration, of hazardous substances into, onto, or through soil,
surface water, or groundwater.
   (5) "Secured lender" means the beneficiary under a deed of trust
against the real property security, or the mortgagee under a mortgage
against the real property security, and any successor-in-interest of
the beneficiary or mortgagee to the deed of trust or mortgage.



(2930.) Section Twenty-nine Hundred and Thirty.  Title acquired by
the mortgagor subsequent to the execution of the mortgage, inures to
the mortgagee as security for the debt in like manner as if acquired
before the execution.

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