The following words and terms when used in this subchapter shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
CLOSURE STATEMENT. A statement prepared by the park owner clearly stating the park is closing, addressing the availability, location and potential costs of adequate replacement rental sites within a 25 mile radius of the park that is closing and the probable relocation costs of the manufactured homes located in the park to other parks within the 25 mile radius.
DISPLACED RESIDENT. A resident of an owner-occupied manufactured home who rents a lot in a manufactured home park, including members of the resident’s household, as of the date the park owner submits a closure statement to the City Planning Commission.
LOT. An area within a manufactured home park, designed and used for the accommodation of a manufactured home.
MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure, not affixed to or part of real estate, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight feet or more in width or 40 feet or more in length, or, when erected onsite, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical system contained in it.
PARK OWNER. The owner of a manufactured home park and any person acting on behalf of the owner in the operation or management of a park.
PERSON. Any individual, corporation, firm, partnership, incorporated and unincorporated association or any other legal or commercial entity.
PURCHASER. The person buying the manufactured home park from the park owner. In the
event that the park owner intends to retain ownership and convert the park to a different use, all references to the purchaser refer to the park owner.
RELOCATION COSTS. The reasonable cost of relocating a manufactured home from a manufactured home park within the city that is being closed or converted to another use to another manufactured home park within a 25-mile radius of the park, as follows:
(1) Preparation for move. Reasonable costs incurred to prepare the eligible manufactured home for transportation to another site. This category includes crane services if needed, but not the cost of wheel axles, tires, frame welding, or trailer hitches.
(2) Transportation to another site. Reasonable costs incurred to transport the eligible manufactured home to another manufactured home park within a 25 mile radius. This category also includes the cost of insuring the manufactured home while the home is in the process of being relocated, and the cost of obtaining moving permits provided that the park owner shall not be required to pay delinquent taxes on a manufactured home if necessary in order to obtain a moving permit. This category does not include the cost of moving personal property separate and distinct from the mobile home and separate and distinct from the appliances and appurtenances of the mobile home.
(3) Hook-up at new location.
(a) The reasonable cost of connecting the eligible manufactured home to utilities at the relocation site, including crane services if needed. The park owner shall not be required to upgrade the electrical or plumbing systems of the manufactured home.
(b) Relocation costs do not include the cost of any repairs or modifications to the manufactured home needed to bring the home into compliance with the state and federal manufactured home building standards for the year in which the home was constructed. Relocation costs also do not include the cost of any repairs or modifications to the home or appurtenances needed to bring the home or appurtenances into compliance with the rules and regulations of the manufactured home park to which the manufactured home is to be relocated, if those rules and regulations are no more stringent than the rules and regulations of the park in which the home is located and the resident was notified of noncompliance with the rules and regulations of the park in which it is located within 60 days prior to delivery of the closure statement.
(Ord. 669, passed 3-23-00)