No. HB 853
Filed under Housing.
Mobile Home Park Regulations; Authorizes counties & municipalities to adopt & enforce local laws, codes, or ordinances relating to mobile home park lot tenancies; authorizes code enforcement officer to cite certain violations to mobile home park owner or mobile home owner; revises obligations & responsibilities of mobile home park owner; revises obligations & responsibilities of mobile home owner; removes provision that mobile home owner is responsible for certain fines; authorizes unit of local government to adopt & enforce local laws, ordinances, or codes for specified purpose; authorizes unit of local government to adopt & enforce local laws, ordinances, or codes for specified purpose; authorizes unit of local government to bring civil proceeding against mobile home park owner or mobile home lot.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDCounties and cities may now write and enforce their own rules for mobile home parks, giving local code officers the power to issue citations directly to residents.
Mobile home owners are no longer automatically responsible for all local government fines; instead, they are only responsible for correcting violations specifically cited to them.
Park owners must now maintain up-to-date records of every resident and provide them to local governments upon request to help enforce these new rules.
Local governments can now place liens or fines on a mobile home lot if the park owner fails to fix a code violation after receiving written notice.
AIGrants counties and municipalities the authority to adopt and enforce local laws, codes, or ordinances to ensure compliance with state mobile home park regulations, and allows code enforcement officers to issue citations directly to either the park owner or the mobile home owner for violations.
AIRequires mobile home park owners to comply with applicable building, housing, fire, and health codes, maintain common areas in good repair, provide access to residents, maintain utility systems, enforce park rules, require mobile home registration stickers, maintain up-to-date records of mobile home owners, and require removal of unapproved exterior modifications.
AIRequires mobile home owners to receive written approval from the park owner before making any exterior modification or addition to the home, and to remove any debris and other property left on the mobile home lot when vacating the premises.
AIAllows a unit of local government to bring a lien, penalty, fine, or other administrative or civil proceeding against a mobile home park owner or a mobile home lot if the unit provided written notice of a code violation, the correction period expired, and the park owner failed to take reasonable steps to comply.
AIRemoves the provision that made mobile home owners responsible for all fines imposed by local government for noncompliance with local codes, shifting the responsibility for correcting cited violations to the party responsible for the underlying duty.
AIRequires mobile home owners to be responsible for correcting a violation of any local law, ordinance, or code cited by a unit of local government under s. 723.024, ensuring that the party who caused the violation handles the correction.