For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. The installation of new improvements and facilities and/or the replacement or reconstruction of existing improve-ments and facilities which consist of more than ordinary maintenance or repairs and have a useful life of at least five years. Keeping the streets and common areas in good repair and/or replacing them shall not be considered capital improvement.
CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (CPI). The CPI published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the Los Angeles-Anaheim-Riverside Metropolitan Area, All Urban Consumers.
HOUSING SERVICES. Services connected with use or occupancy of a rental space in a mobile home park which are provided to residents for the rent charged for a space including, but not limited to, utilities, ordinary repairs, replacement and
maintenance, laundry facilities, recreational facilities, a resident manager, refuse removal, parking street cleaning and maintenance, and other benefits, privileges, facilities or terms and conditions of the tenancy.
MANUFACTURED HOME or MOBILE HOME. A structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width, or 40 body 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; except that such term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this definition except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification and complies with the standards established herein. MANUFACTURED HOME includes a mobile home subject to National Manufactured Housing Construc-tion and Safety Act of 1974 (42 USC 5401 et seq.).
(Cal. Health & Safety Code § 18007)
MOBILE HOME PARK. Any area of land within the city where two or more spaces are rented, or held for rent, to accommodate mobile homes used for human habitation, but shall not include parks which rent spaces exclusively to recreational vehicles as that term is defined in Cal. Civ. Code § 799.29.
OWNER. A person or entity who receives or is entitled to receive rent for the use or occupancy of a mobile home park space or an agent or representative authorized to act on behalf of such person or entity.
RENT. The consideration paid for use or occupancy of a mobile home space and the provision or related housing services.
RENT ADMINISTRATOR. The person desig-nated by the City Manager to administer the pro-visions of this subchapter.
RESIDENCY. The right to entitlement of a mobile home owner to use, occupy and place a mobile home on a rental space in a mobile home park and to related housing services.
RESIDENT. An owner of a mobile home who has a residency.
VACANCY. A vacant space, or the sale by a resident of a mobile home in place in a mobile home park to a new owner.
('81 Code, § 8.48.020)