(a) The term “manufactured home” means any non self-propelled vehicle transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty feet or more in length or, when erected on site, 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 systems contained therein. The calculations used to determine the number of square feet in a structure are based on the structure’s exterior dimensions and measured at the largest horizontal projections when erected on site. These dimensions include all expandable rooms, cabinets, and other projections containing interior space, but do not include bay windows.
(b) Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing definition to the contrary, the term “manufactured home” does not include any modular, sectional or other factory built housing that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) The structure is installed upon and properly attached to a foundation system that goes around the entire outside perimeter of the structure and provides adequate support of the structure’s vertical and horizontal load and transfer these and other imposed forces, without failure, from the structure to the undisturbed ground below the frost line;
(2) Minimum roof pitch of 2 ½ by 12;
(3) Minimum of 8-foot side walls; and
(4) Minimum of 26 feet in width per unit.
(Ord. 6-1999. Passed 6-14-99.)