Sec 41-2142. Definitions

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Accessory structure" means the installation, assembly, connection or construction of any one-story habitable room, storage room, patio, porch, garage, carport, awning, skirting, retaining wall, evaporative cooler, refrigeration air conditioning system, solar system or wood decking attached to a new or used manufactured home, mobile home or residential single family factory-built building.

2. "Act" means the national manufactured home construction and safety standards act of 1974 and title VI of the housing and community development act of 1974 (P.L. 93-383, as amended by P.L. 95-128, 95-557, 96-153 and 96-339).

3. "Alteration of units" means the replacement, addition, modification or removal of any equipment or installation after the sale by a manufacturer to a dealer or distributor but prior to the sale by a dealer to a purchaser, which may affect compliance with the standards, construction, fire safety, occupancy, plumbing or heat-producing or electrical system. Alteration does not mean the repair or replacement of a component or appliance requiring plug-in to an electrical receptacle if the replaced item is of the same configuration and rating as the component or appliance being repaired or replaced. Alteration also does not mean the addition of an appliance requiring plug-in to an electrical receptacle if such appliance is not provided with the unit by the manufacturer and the rating of the appliance does not exceed the rating of the receptacle to which such appliance is connected.

4. "Board" means the board of manufactured housing.

5. "Broker" means any person who, on behalf of another, sells, exchanges, buys, offers or attempts to negotiate or acts as an agent for the sale or exchange of a used manufactured home or mobile home except as exempted in section 41-2178.

6. "Component" means any part, material or appliance which is built-in as an integral part of the unit during the manufacturing process.

7. "Consumer" means either a purchaser or seller of a unit regulated by this chapter who utilizes the services of a person licensed by the department.

8. "Consummation of sale" means that a purchaser has received all goods and services that the dealer or broker agreed to provide at the time the contract was entered into or the transfer of title. Consummation of sale does not include warranties.

9. "Dealer" means any person who sells, exchanges, buys, offers or attempts to negotiate or acts as an agent for the sale or exchange of factory-built buildings, subassemblies, manufactured homes or mobile homes except as exempted in section 41-2178. A lease or rental agreement by which the user acquired ownership of the unit with or without additional remuneration is considered a sale under this chapter.

10. "Defect" means any defect in the performance, construction, components or material of a unit that renders the unit or any part of the unit unfit for the ordinary use for which it was intended.

11. "Department" means the department of fire, building and life safety.

12. "Director" means the director of the department.

13. "Earnest monies" means all monies given by a purchaser or a financial institution to a dealer or broker before consummation of the sale.

14. "Factory-built building" means a residential or nonresidential building including a dwelling unit or habitable room thereof which is either wholly or in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be assembled on-site, except that it does not include a manufactured home, recreational vehicle or mobile home as defined in this section.

15. "HUD" means the United States department of housing and urban development.

16. "Imminent safety hazard" means an imminent and unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury.

17. "Insignia of approval" means a numbered or serialized label or seal issued by the deputy director of the office of manufactured housing as certification of compliance with this chapter.

18. "Installation" means:

(a) Connecting new or used mobile homes, manufactured homes or factory-built buildings to on-site utility terminals or repairing these utility connections.

(b) Placing new or used mobile homes, manufactured homes, accessory structures or factory-built buildings on foundation systems or repairing these foundation systems.

(c) Providing ground anchoring for new or used mobile homes or manufactured homes or repairing the ground anchoring.

19. "Installation supervision" means that the installer may act as an installer of accessory structures for manufactured homes, mobile homes or residential single family factory-built buildings and may also contract with the purchaser or owner of a unit, or a dealer licensed under this chapter, to arrange for, control and supervise all aspects of the installation of a unit and accessory structures, including retaining and supervising persons whose activities are licensed under this chapter. A licensed installer may not contract with the purchaser or owner of a unit or with a dealer licensed under this chapter, to arrange for, retain and supervise a person who is licensed or regulated by an agency other than the office of manufactured housing, unless the licensed installer is also licensed by the same agency which licenses or regulates the person whom the installer retains and supervises. Installation supervision also includes the installer's right, if authorized by the purchaser, owner or dealer, to seek and obtain recourse, remedies or relief against all persons whose activities are supervised. If requested by a licensed installer or an applicant for an installer's license, and approved by the deputy director pursuant to sections 41-2175 and 41-2176, an installer may obtain a license that includes installation supervision.

20. "Installer" means any person who engages in the business of performing installations of manufactured homes, mobile homes or residential single family factory-built buildings.

21. "Installer of accessory structures" means any person who engages in the business of installing accessory structures.

22. "Listing agreement" means a document which contains the name and address of the seller, a description of the unit to be listed and the terms which include the period of time that the agreement is in force, the price the seller is requesting for the unit, the commission to be paid to the licensee and the signatures of the sellers and the licensee who obtains the listing.

23. "Local enforcement agency" means a zoning or building department of a city, town or county or its agents.

24. "Manufactured home" means a structure built in accordance with the act.

25. "Manufacturer" means any person engaged in manufacturing, assembling or reconstructing any unit regulated by this chapter.

26. "Mobile home" means a structure built prior to June 15, 1976, on a permanent chassis, capable of being transported in one or more sections and designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation as a dwelling when connected to on-site utilities except recreational vehicles and factory-built buildings.

27. "Purchaser" means a person purchasing a unit in good faith from a licensed dealer or broker for purposes other than resale.

28. "Qualifying party" means a person who is an owner, employee, corporate officer or partner of the licensed business and who has active and direct supervision of and responsibility for all operations of that licensed business.

29. "Reconstruction of a unit" means construction work performed for the purpose of restoration or modification of a unit by changing or adding structural components or electrical, plumbing or heat or air producing systems.

30. "Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular type unit which is:

(a) A portable camping trailer mounted on wheels and constructed with collapsible partial sidewalls which fold for towing by another vehicle and unfold for camping.

(b) A motor home designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use and built on or permanently attached to a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis or on a chassis cab or van that is an integral part of the completed vehicle.

(c) A park trailer built on a single chassis, mounted on wheels and designed to be connected to utilities necessary for operation of installed fixtures and appliances and has a gross trailer area of not less than three hundred twenty square feet and not more than four hundred square feet when it is set up, except that it does not include fifth wheel trailers.

(d) A travel trailer mounted on wheels, designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or travel use, of a size or weight that may or may not require special highway movement permits when towed by a motorized vehicle and has a trailer area of less than three hundred twenty square feet. This subdivision includes fifth wheel trailers. If a unit requires a size or weight permit, it shall be manufactured to the standards for park trailers in A 119.5 of the American national standards institute code.

(e) A portable truck camper constructed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, travel or camping use and consisting of a roof, floor and sides designed to be loaded onto and unloaded from the bed of a pickup truck.

31. "Salesperson" means any person who, for a salary, commission or compensation of any kind, is employed by or acts on behalf of any dealer or broker of manufactured homes, mobile homes or factory-built buildings to sell, exchange, buy, offer or attempt to negotiate or act as an agent for the sale or exchange of an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home or factory-built building.

32. "Seller" means a natural person who enters into a listing agreement with a licensed dealer or broker for the purpose of resale.

33. "Site development" means the development of an area for the installation of the unit's or units' locations, parking, surface drainage, driveways, on-site utility terminals and property lines at a proposed construction site or area.

34. "Statutory agent" means an adult person who has been a bona fide resident of this state for at least three years and has agreed to act as agent for a licensee.

35. "Subassembly" means a prefabricated wall, floor, ceiling, roof or similar combination of components.

36. "Title transfer" means a true copy of the application for title transfer which is stamped or validated by the appropriate government agency.

37. "Unit" means a manufactured home, mobile home, factory-built building, subassembly or accessory structures.

38. "Unit safety" means the performance of a unit in such a manner that the public is protected against any unreasonable risk of the occurrence of accidents due to the design or construction of such unit, or any unreasonable risk of death or injury to the user or to the public if such accidents occur.

39. "Used unit" means any unit which is regulated by this chapter and which has been sold, bargained, exchanged or given away from a purchaser who first acquired the unit which was titled in the name of such purchaser.

40. "Workmanship" means a minimum standard of construction or installation reflecting a journeyman quality of the work of the various trades.