Personal Property

Plain English Breakdown

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Changes for Self-Service Storage Facilities

This law changes how self-service storage facilities handle rental agreement revisions and terminations.

What This Bill Does

• If a tenant does not sign an updated rental agreement but keeps using the storage space for at least 30 days, it is considered accepted as if signed.
• A tenant cannot use the facility after receiving a notice of termination or nonrenewal by hand delivery, certified mail, or email. The notice must give at least 15 days to remove items.
• The rental agreement can say that the owner can get rid of items more than 15 days after termination if not removed.

Who It Names or Affects

• Tenants who lease space in self-service storage facilities
• Owners and managers of self-service storage facilities

Terms To Know

Occupant

A person who rents a storage unit at a self-service facility.

Owner

The person or company that owns and manages the self-service storage facility.

Limits and Unknowns

• This law applies to conduct occurring on and after July 1, 2025.
• It does not specify what happens if a tenant disputes the changes in the rental agreement.

Official Summary Text

EFFECTIVENESS OF WRITTEN RENTAL AGREEMENT REVISIONS

If
an
occupant
who has
leas
ed space at a self-service storage facility
does not sign a written rental agreement revision that the
owner
of
the
facility, the agent of such person, or any person authorized by such person to manage the facility
(collectively, "
owner
")
has delivered to
the occupant by hand delivery, first class mail, or electronic mail, then
this bill provides that
the occupant's continued use of the storage space for not less than 30 days from the date of the revision constitutes an acceptance of the rental agreement wi
th the same effect as if it had been signed by the occupant.

EFFECTIVENESS OF TERMINATION OR NONRENEWAL OF RENTAL AGREEMENT

This bill prohibits

a
n occupant
from
us
ing
a self-service storage facility after the owner has delivered a written notice by hand
delivery, certified mail, or electronic mail of the termination or nonrenewal of the occupant's rental agreement. Such notice must provide the occupant with not less than
1
5 days after delivery of the notice to remove all personal property from the self-
service storage facility.

The rental agreement may contain a provision notifying the occupant of the owner's right to dispose of personal property at the self-service storage facility more than 15

days after the termination or nonrenewal of the rental agr
eement.

LIMITATION ON ACCESS TO THE FACILITY

Before the occupant's removal of all personal property,
this bill authorizes
the owner
to
place reasonable restrictions on the occupant's use of the self-service storage facility, including limiting or denyin
g the occupant's access to the self-service storage facility to remove the occupant's personal property outside of the owner's office hours. The owner may dispose of any personal property remaining in the self-service storage facility after the date prov
i
ded in the written notice.

Current Bill Text

SENATE BILL 559
By Reeves

HOUSE BILL 1154
By Lynn

HB1154
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 66,
Chapter 31, relative to self-service storage
facilities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 66-31-106, is amended by adding
the following as new subsections:
(c) If the occupant does not sign a written rental agreement revision that the
owner has delivered to the occupant by hand delivery, first class mail, or electronic mail,
then the occupant's continued use of the storage space for not less than thirty (30) days
from the date of the revision constitutes an acceptance of the rental agreement with the
same effect as if it had been signed by the occupant.
(d)
(1) An occupant shall not use a self-service storage facility after the
owner has delivered a written notice by hand delivery, certified mail, or electronic
mail of the termination or nonrenewal of the occupant's rental agreement. Such
notice must provide the occupant with not less than fifteen (15) days after
delivery of the notice to remove all personal property from the self-service
storage facility.
(2) The rental agreement may contain a provision notifying the occupant
of the owner's right to dispose of personal property at the self-service storage
facility more than fifteen (15) days after the termination or nonrenewal of the
rental agreement.

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(3) Before the occupant's removal of all personal property, the owner
may place reasonable restrictions on the occupant's use of the self-service
storage facility, including limiting or denying the occupant's access to the self-
service storage facility to remove the occupant's personal property outside of the
owner's office hours. The owner may dispose of any personal property
remaining in the self-service storage facility after the date provided in the written
notice pursuant to subdivision (d)(2).
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2025, the public welfare requiring it, and
applies to conduct occurring on and after that date.