(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a change in ownership shall not include a transfer of a floating home marina to a nonprofit corporation, stock cooperative corporation, limited equity stock cooperative, or other entity formed by the tenants of a floating home marina for the purpose of purchasing the floating home marina, provided that the individual tenants who were renting at least 51 percent of the berths in the floating home marina prior to the transfer participate in the transaction through the ownership of an aggregate of at least 51 percent of the voting stock of, or other ownership or membership interests in, the entity that acquires the floating home marina.

(b) (1) If the transfer of a floating home marina has been excluded from a change in ownership pursuant to subdivision (a) and the floating home marina has not been converted to condominium, stock cooperative ownership, or limited equity cooperative ownership, any transfer of shares of the voting stock of, or other ownership or membership interests in, the entity that acquired the floating home marina in accordance with subdivision (a) shall be a change in ownership of a pro rata portion of the real property of the floating home marina, unless the transfer is for the purpose of converting the floating home marina to condominium, stock cooperative ownership, or limited equity cooperative ownership, or is excluded from change in ownership by Section 62, 63, or 63.1.

(2) A floating home marina that does not utilize recorded deeds to transfer ownership interest in the berths shall file, by February 1 of each year, a report with the county assessor’s office containing all of the following information:

(A) The full name and mailing address of each owner, stock holder, or holder of an ownership interest in the floating home marina.

(B) The situs address, including berth number and dock, of each unit.

(C) The date the ownership interest was acquired.

(D) The Department of Housing and Community Development decal number or serial number, or both.

(3) Within 30 days of a change in ownership, the new resident owner or other purchaser or transferee of a floating home within a floating home marina that does not utilize recorded deeds to transfer ownership interest in the berths, shall file a change in ownership statement described in either Section 480 or 480.2.

(c) For purposes of this section, both of the following shall apply:

(1) “Floating home marina” has the same meaning as defined in Section 800.4 of the Civil Code.

(2) “Pro rata portion of the real property” means the total real property of the floating home marina multiplied by a fraction consisting of the number of shares of voting stock, or other ownership or membership interests, transferred divided by the total number of outstanding issued or unissued shares of voting stock of, or other ownership or membership interests in, the entity that acquired the floating home marina in accordance with subdivision (a).

(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 817, Sec. 1. (AB 2046) Effective September 30, 2012.)