(A) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DEPARTMENT. The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
HUD-CODE MANUFACTURED HOME. A structure constructed on or after 6-15-1976, according to the rules of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 body feet of 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. The term does not include a recreational vehicle as that term is defined by 25 C.F.R. § 3282.8(g).
INSTALLATION. When used in reference to manufactured housing means the transporting of manufactured homes or manufactured components to the place where they will be used by the consumer, the construction of the foundation system, whether temporary or permanent, and the placement and erection of a manufactured home or manufactured home component on the foundation system, and includes supporting, blocking, leveling, securing, anchoring and proper connection of air-conditioning, and minor adjustments.
INSTALLER. Any person, including a retailer or manufacturer, who performs installation functions on manufactured housing.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING or MANUFACTURED HOME. A HUD-code manufactured home of a mobile home and collectively means and refers to both.
MOBILE HOME. A structure that was constructed before 6-15-1976, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or 40 feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis 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.
MOBILE HOME PARK. A parcel of land under single or multiple ownership, which has been planned and improved for the placement of two or more manufactured homes.
PERSON. Any individual, partnership, company, corporation, association or other group, however organized.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE. A vehicle as defined by 24 C.F.R. § 3282.8(g):
(a) Built on a single chassis;
(b) Four hundred square feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection;
(c) Self-propelled or permanently towable by a light duty truck; and
(d) Designed primarily not for use as a permanent dwelling but as temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use.
REGISTRANT. Any person who has registered with the State Commission of Licensing and Regulations and has been issued a certificate of registration as manufactured housing installer.
(B) The definitions of “mobile home”, “HUD-code manufactured home” and “manufactured housing” set forth in division (A) above are binding on all persons in the city as a matter of law. A mobile home is not a HUD-code manufactured home and a HUD-code manufactured home is not a mobile home for any purpose under the law of the state.
(Ord. passed 11-15-2011)