No. SB 956
Filed under Legal.
Multifamily Residential Properties; Prohibiting the owner or principal operator of a multifamily residential property from receiving a presumption against liability if a certain number of specified crimes were reported to have occurred at the property within a specified timeframe, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDOwners and operators of apartment complexes and other multifamily rental housing can normally invoke a legal presumption against liability when someone is criminally attacked on the premises. This bill blocks that presumption at properties with a recent violent-crime history.
The block applies when two or more of seven listed crimes -- murder, robbery, sexual battery, aggravated assault, battery, kidnapping or false imprisonment, or a crime involving a firearm -- were reported at the property in the 24 months before the incident.
Losing the presumption does not make an owner liable by itself. It removes a legal head start in court, so the lawsuit is judged on its own facts instead.
AIOwners and operators lose the presumption against liability for an incident if two or more of seven listed violent crimes -- murder, robbery, sexual battery, aggravated assault, battery, kidnapping or false imprisonment, or firearm crimes -- were reported at the property within the preceding 24 months.