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Committee passes bill letting self‑storage owners advertise auctions online instead of two-week newspaper notices
Summary
House Bill 131 would modernize advertising requirements for delinquent self‑storage auctions by allowing "commercially reasonable" online advertising in place of the current two-week newspaper-ad requirement; the committee passed the bill after industry testimony.
Representative Reeves introduced House Bill 131 to update Georgia's statute governing advertising and sale of goods from delinquent self-storage units, saying the law predates the Internet and still requires two weeks of newspaper ads. "The statute before you was drafted years ago ... before the Internet was invented," Reeves said, and the bill would permit commercially reasonable advertising, including online methods that generate bidders.
Industry witnesses told the committee that online listings now generate…
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