BILL NUMBER: SB 337	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kehoe

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act to add Section 1940.4 to the Civil Code, relating to
tenancy.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 337, as introduced, Kehoe. Tenancy: noncommercial signs.
   Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of residential
tenancies. Existing law prohibits the governing documents of a common
interest development from prohibiting the posting or displaying of
noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners on or in an owner's
separate interest, except as specified.
   This bill would prohibit a landlord from prohibiting a tenant for
posting or displaying noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners
on or within any portion of a dwelling unit leased by the tenant,
unless the posting or display would violate a local, state, or
federal law.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1940.4 is added to the Civil Code, to read:
   1940.4.  (a) A landlord shall not prohibit a tenant from posting
or displaying noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners on or
within any portion of a dwelling unit leased by the tenant, unless
the posting or display would violate a local, state, or federal law.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that this section is
declaratory of existing law.