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Senate Bill S5286

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits self-service facility owners from enforcing liens on personal property held in a self-storage facility during state disaster emergencies or states of emergency

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2025-S5286 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Lien Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §182, Lien L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S9084
2021-2022: S6648
2023-2024: S4347

2025-S5286 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits self-service facility owners from enforcing liens, by private or public sale, on personal property held in a self-storage facility during state disaster emergencies or county states of emergency.

2025-S5286 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5286 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5286
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the lien law, in relation to prohibiting self-service
   facility owners from enforcing liens on personal property  held  in  a
   self-storage  facility  during  state  disaster  emergencies or county
   states of emergency
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 7 of section 182 of the lien law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) AN OWNER SHALL NOT ENFORCE A LIEN, BY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SALE, HELD
 UPON PERSONAL PROPERTY STORED AT A SELF-SERVICE STORAGE FACILITY  DURING
 A  STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY, AS DESCRIBED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT OF THE
 EXECUTIVE LAW, OR COUNTY STATE OF EMERGENCY,  AS  DESCRIBED  IN  SECTION
 TWENTY-FOUR OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09897-01-5

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