Section 35-12A-6 Storage of dwelling and personal property of tenant. - Alabama Statutes

Section 35-12A-6

Storage of dwelling and personal property of tenant.

(a) After notifying the tenant and lienholder as required by Sections 35-12A-3 and 35-12A-4, the manufactured dwelling community owner shall do all of the following:

(1) Store any abandoned manufactured dwelling on the rented space and exercise reasonable care for the manufactured dwelling.

(2) Store all other abandoned personal property of the tenant, including goods left inside a manufactured dwelling or left upon the rented space outside a manufactured dwelling, in a place of safekeeping and exercise reasonable care for the personal property. For purposes of this chapter, "personal property" does not include a manufactured dwelling.

(b) The manufactured dwelling community owner shall be entitled to reasonable or actual storage charges and costs incidental to storage or disposal, including any cost of removal to a place of storage occurring after the expiration of the date by which a tenant, lienholder, or owner is to contact the manufactured dwelling community owner as set forth in Section 35-12A-5. The storage charge shall be no greater than the monthly space rent last payable by the tenant.

(Act 2003-516, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 1537, §6.)