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Technical amendment to self‑storage delinquency notices reflects prior industry‑consumer protection agreement
Summary
HB979 implements a previously negotiated change to self‑storage delinquency notice procedures: if a tenant fails to respond to an initial 10‑day notice, a second notice must be sent via verified mail after five days. Industry and the Attorney General's consumer protection division confirmed the language implements their prior agreement.
Delegate Andre Johnson presented HB979 to add a procedural step to delinquency notices for self‑storage accounts that reflects an earlier agreement between the industry and the Attorney General's consumer protection division.
Under the amendment, a second notice must be sent via verified mail five days after the initial 10‑day notice if the tenant has not responded. Bruce Bariano, representing the Maryland Self Storage Industry, said the language in HB979 matches the agreement reached with the Attorney General's office and described the change as technical and pro‑consumer.
Committee members recorded no opposition and the measure concluded as a technical implementation of a prior negotiated arrangement.
