BILL NUMBER: AB 1511	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  91
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 13, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 13, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 28, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 21, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 14, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 8, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        JANUARY 12, 2012

   An act to add Section 2079.10.5 to the Civil Code, relating to
real property.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1511, Bradford. Real property: disclosures: transmission
pipelines.
   Existing law requires certain natural hazard disclosures to be
made upon the transfer of residential real property, as specified,
and prescribes the manner and the form of the disclosures.
   This bill would require all contracts for the sale of residential
real property entered into on or after July 1, 2013, to contain a
specified notice pertaining to gas and hazardous liquid transmission
pipelines. The bill would provide that nothing in the notice
requirement would alter any existing duty under any other statute or
decisional law imposed upon the seller or broker of the residential
real property, as specified.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 2079.10.5 is added to the Civil Code, to read:
   2079.10.5.  (a) Every contract for the sale of residential real
property entered into on or after July 1, 2013, shall contain, in not
less than 8-point type, a notice as specified below:


   NOTICE REGARDING GAS AND HAZARDOUS LIQUID TRANSMISSION PIPELINES

   This notice is being provided simply to inform you that
information about the general location of gas and hazardous liquid
transmission pipelines is available to the public via the National
Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS) Internet Web site maintained by the
United States Department of Transportation at
http://www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov/. To seek further information about
possible transmission pipelines near the property, you may contact
your local gas utility or other pipeline operators in the area.
Contact information for pipeline operators is searchable by ZIP Code
and county on the NPMS Internet Web site.

   (b) Upon delivery of the notice to the transferee of the real
property, the seller or broker is not required to provide information
in addition to that contained in the notice regarding gas and
hazardous liquid transmission pipelines in subdivision (a). The
information in the notice shall be deemed to be adequate to inform
the transferee about the existence of a statewide database of the
locations of gas and hazardous liquid transmission pipelines and
information from the database regarding those locations.
   (c) Nothing in this section shall alter any existing duty under
any other statute or decisional law imposed upon the seller or
broker, including, but not limited to, the duties of a seller or
broker under this article, or the duties of a seller or broker under
Article 1.5 (commencing with Section 1102) of Chapter 2 of Title 4 of
Part 4 of Division 2.