{
  "section": "4740",
  "code": "California Civil Code",
  "law_code": "CIV",
  "citation": "California Civil Code § 4740",
  "heading": "Rental Restrictions — The Date of Acquisition Rule",
  "heading_is_editorial": true,
  "effective": "2021-01-01",
  "amended_by": "Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 198, Sec. 1. (AB 3182) Effective January 1, 2021.",
  "official_credit_line": "Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 198, Sec. 1. (AB 3182) Effective January 1, 2021.",
  "official_url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&sectionNum=4740.",
  "page_url": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals",
  "pending_amendment": null,
  "version_history": [],
  "verified": "two sources agree",
  "verification_note": "Text taken verbatim from the Legislative Counsel of California official code database and checked word for word against an independent publisher.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "url": "https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "name": "leginfo (Legislative Counsel official bulk code database, LAW_SECTION_TBL)",
      "note": "Authoritative. Retrieved with tools/fetch.py, which reads the archive's central directory by HTTP range request and fetches only this section's member. The leginfo.legislature.ca.gov HTML page sits behind a bot challenge; this is the same database that backs it."
    },
    {
      "url": "https://california.public.law/codes/civil_code_section_4740",
      "accessed": "2026-10-11",
      "name": "California Public Law (Public.Law)",
      "note": "Independent publisher, used to check the text word for word.",
      "edition": "2025"
    }
  ],
  "subdivisions": [
    {
      "id": "a",
      "label": "(a)",
      "text": "An owner of a separate interest in a common interest development shall not be subject to a provision in a governing document or an amendment to a governing document that prohibits the rental or leasing of any of the separate interests in that common interest development to a renter, lessee, or tenant unless that governing document, or amendment thereto, was effective prior to the date the owner acquired title to their separate interest.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "b",
      "label": "(b)",
      "text": "For purposes of this section, the right to rent or lease the separate interest of an owner shall not be deemed to have terminated if the transfer by the owner of all or part of the separate interest meets at least one of the following conditions:",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-b"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-1",
      "label": "(b)(1)",
      "text": "Pursuant to Section 62 or 480.3 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, the transfer is exempt, for purposes of reassessment by the county tax assessor.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-b-1"
    },
    {
      "id": "b-2",
      "label": "(b)(2)",
      "text": "Pursuant to subdivision (b) of, solely with respect to probate transfers, or subdivision (e), (f), or (g) of, Section 1102.2, the transfer is exempt from the requirements to prepare and deliver a Real Estate Transfer Disclosure Statement, as set forth in Section 1102.6.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-b-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "c",
      "label": "(c)",
      "text": "Prior to renting or leasing their separate interest as provided by this section, an owner shall provide the association verification of the date the owner acquired title to the separate interest and the name and contact information of the prospective tenant or lessee or the prospective tenant’s or lessee’s representative.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-c"
    },
    {
      "id": "d",
      "label": "(d)",
      "text": "Nothing in this section shall be deemed to revise, alter, or otherwise affect the voting process by which a common interest development adopts or amends its governing documents.",
      "anchor": "https://quoroom.org/law/rentals#s4740-d"
    }
  ]
}