(a) If the registered owner of a mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle, in or about which methamphetamine laboratory activity occurred, does not take the action required by subdivision (b) of Section 25400.25, within 30 days, as required by the order issued by a local health officer, or does not pay the city or county for the costs of remediation specified in subdivision (c) of Section 25400.30, the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner may immediately initiate the actions authorized by paragraph (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 25400.28, including, but not limited to, terminating the tenancy of the owner of the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle, if any, by a written noncurable three-day notice to quit, and not later than 30 days after restitution of possession of the real property, or vacation or abandonment of the tenancy, the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner or operator may abate any nuisance and take any of the following actions:
(1) Remediate the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle in accordance with the requirements of this chapter, in compliance with the PSA workplan.
(2) Immediately cause an authorized contractor, to remove and dispose of the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle.
(3) Remove and dispose of the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle.
(4) In a special occupancy park, notwithstanding Section 3072 of the Civil Code or Sections 22851.3 or 22851.8 of the Vehicle Code, or in a mobilehome park, enforce a warehouseman’s lien in accordance with Sections 7209 and 7210 of the Commercial Code against the recreational vehicle.
(b) If the owner of a mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle, in or about which methamphetamine laboratory activity occurred, does not pay the city or county for the costs of remediation specified in subdivision (c) of Section 25400.30, or does not reimburse the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner where the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle is located, for any cost that the mobilehome park owner incurs pursuant to this chapter to remediate the property, a mobilehome park owner may, in addition to any other remedy allowed by law, treat the amount due as rent and serve a notice and initiate an action for nonpayment of rent as allowed by Section 798.56 of the Civil Code and a special occupancy park owner may treat the amount due as rent and serve a notice and initiate any action permitted for nonpayment of rent pursuant to the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law (Chapter 2.6 (commencing with Section 799.20) of Title 2 of Part 2 of the Civil Code).
(c) (1) A warehouseman’s lien may be enforced pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (a) only if the notification specified in paragraph (c) of subdivision (2) of Section 7210 of the Commercial Code, in addition to including the itemized statement of the claim of the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner, also includes an itemized statement of the city or county, if the city or county submits to the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner a claim for the costs of remediation specified in subdivision (c) of Section 25400.30 at least 10 days before service of the notification.
(2) A mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner may satisfy a warehouseman’s lien first from the proceeds of the sale of the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle.
(3) A warehouseman’s lien enforced pursuant to this section that does not include a claim submitted by the city or county pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be deemed to meet the notification requirements of paragraph (1), but any balance of the proceeds of any sale shall be held pursuant to subdivision (6) of Section 7210 of the Commercial Code, for delivery on demand to the city or county, and thereafter to any person to whom the mobilehome park or special occupancy park owner would have been bound to deliver the mobilehome, manufactured home, or recreational vehicle.
(Added by Stats. 2006, Ch. 789, Sec. 15. Effective January 1, 2007.)
Last modified: October 25, 2018