Minimum specifications for manufactured home construction (including the home plumbing, heating, and electrical systems) shall be those established in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards (24 C.F.R. 3280), if the home was built on or after June 15, 1976, the effective date of these standards, per 24 C.F.R. 3282.1(a). Section A119.1 of the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) code shall be the minimum construction standard for manufactured homes built before June 15, 1976. A manufactured home whose construction is altered may be required to comply with codes established under 1972 PA 230, the Stille-De-Rossetti-Hale Single State Construction Code Act.
The following definitions shall apply:
MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure, transportable in 1 or more sections, which is built on a 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 systems contained in the structure.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITY. A parcel or tract of land under the control of a person, upon which 3 or more manufactured homes are located on a continual, nonrecreational basis, and which is offered to the public for that purpose, regardless of whether a charge is made therefor, together with any building, structure, enclosure, street, equipment, or facility used or intended for use incident to the occupancy of a manufactured home. A PERSON, as used in this definition, means an individual, partnership, association, trust, corporation, or any other legal entity or combination of legal entities.
(Ord. passed 9-22-2008)