{"id":51200,"date":"2014-05-02T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T00:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=51200"},"modified":"2014-05-07T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T00:32:23","slug":"bill-to-deter-squatters-clears-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/05\/02\/bill-to-deter-squatters-clears-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to deter squatters clears committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28257\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28257\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Fox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28257\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Fox-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Fox\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Fox-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Steve-Fox.jpg 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28257\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SACRAMENTO &#8211; Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) today announced that Assembly Bill (AB) 1513, a bill that deters illegal squatting in residential real properties, received bipartisan support from members of the Assembly Judiciary Safety Committee and passed by a margin of 9-1.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now will move to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomeowners in the Antelope Valley who have a squatter in their house bear the cost of not being able to lease or sell their home, as well as the cost of having to go to a court in downtown Los Angeles,\u201d said Fox. \u201cThis program will give homeowners a local solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Squatters are individuals who break into an unoccupied home and live on the property without the knowledge or consent of the landowner. Over the past decade there has been a rise in the reported number of properties that are unlawfully occupied by such individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, there is no state law that provides local government officials with specific tools to combat the illegal occupancy of residences. It can take two months to evict a sophisticated squatter.<\/p>\n<p>AB 1513 would create a pilot program in the cities of Palmdale and Lancaster that allows landowners to file a Declaration of Ownership with local law enforcement agencies identifying a property that will be vacant. The property owner would then post the Declaration on an unoccupied home and regularly inspect the property to ensure it is vacant.<\/p>\n<p>AB 1513 provides a means to deter illegal squatting on residential real property at an early stage and to provide a chance for squatters to vacate the premises in lieu of arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHomeowners should have the right to remove a trespasser,\u201d concluded Fox.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Information via press release from the office of Assemblymember Steve Fox.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO &#8211; Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) today announced that Assembly Bill (AB) 1513, a bill that deters illegal squatting in residential real properties, received bipartisan support from members of the Assembly Judiciary Safety Committee and passed by a margin of 9-1. The bill now will move to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. \u201cHomeowners in the Antelope [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}