“Factory-built Housing” means a factory-built structure designed for long-term residential use, the components of which are essentially constructed or assembled prior to its delivery to and installation upon a site. Factory-built Housing has the following features or characteristics: It is mass produced in a factory; designed and constructed for transportation to a site with or without a chassis for installation and use when connected to require utilities; either an independent, individual factory erected building or a module with two or more sides erected at the factory, for combination with other elements to form a building on the site. For the purpose of this chapter, “factory-built housing” shall include the following:
(a) “Manufactured home” means any non self-propelled vehicle transportable in one or more sections and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a permanent dwelling unit with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein, and which bears a label certifying that it is built in compliance with the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards.
(b) “Modular home” means a factory fabricated transportable building designed to be used by itself to be incorporated with similar units at a building site into a modular structure. The term is intended to apply to major assemblies and does not include prefabricated panels, trusses, plumbing trees, and other prefabricated sub-elements which are to be incorporated into a structure at the site.
(c) “Sectional home” means a dwelling made of two or more modular units transported to the homesite, put on a foundation and joined to make a single dwelling.
(d) “Mobile home” means manufactured housing built in a chassis. A mobile home shall be construed to remain a mobile home, subject to all regulations applying thereto, even when wheels, axles, hitch, or other appurtenances of mobility are removed and regardless of the nature of the foundation provided. A mobile home shall not be construed to be a travel trailer of other form of recreational vehicle.
(e) “Mobile home, double-wide or triple-wide” means a mobile home consisting respectively of two or more sections combined horizontally at the site to form a single dwelling, while still retaining their individual chassis for possible future movement.
(f) “Mobile home, expandable” means a mobile home with one or more room sections that fold, collapse, or telescope into a principle unit when being transported and which can be expanded at the site to provide additional living area.
(Ord. 2814. Passed 11-29-95.)