Landlords Disclosure Mold Law California
California Mold Disclosure Law
The new California mold
disclosure law took effect in California on Jan. 1, 2002, but real estate
sellers and prospective landlords won't have to disclose the presence of
mold in California homes and buildings to prospective buyers and prospective
tenants under the first state law to address growing public fears about mold
problems until some future date [probably Jan. 1, 2004] when the State of
California publishes both mold contamination and mold remediation standards.
The California state government has until July 1, 2003, to establish such
standards.
Sellers, real estate brokers
and agents, and home inspectors will have to be diligent in following the
law. In conforming with the law, the property seller's transfer
disclosure statement a requirement in real estate transactions since 1985
will now include mold.
In addition, the California
State Department of Toxic Substance Control will soon include a chapter on
toxic mold in its Environmental Hazards Handbook, which is provided
to all buyers and sellers.
Enforcement of mold standards
and mold disclosure statements will be done by local governmental agencies
under the new mold law. [Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 2001] To read
the complete final law as passed by the Calif. legislature, visit:
Mold Law Text.
For questions and answers about
the new California mold disclosure law,
please visit:
California Mold
Disclosure.
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Whether or not you
are a mold victim, or a present or future mold plaintiff or mold
defendant, the
Mold Legal Guide will help you and your lawyer to deal
with and to
survive financially the immense and complicated legal problems arising
from mold issues that are commonly arising in today's lawsuit-crazy
world in such business relationships as: landlord and tenant, employer
and employee, property seller and buyer, realtor or real estate agent
and seller or buyer, mortgage lender and debtor, home builder and buyer,
and contractor and customer. For more information, please visit
Mold Law Book. |