Manufactured housing: foundation systems: installation: common interest developments.

The Mobilehome Parks Act requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to establish regulations for manufactured home, mobilehome, and commercial modular foundation systems. Existing law requires an owner or licensed contractor to obtain a building permit from the appropriate enforcement agency to install a manufactured home, mobilehome, or commercial modular on a foundation system by, among other things, submitting written evidence that the manufactured home, mobilehome, or commercial modular owner owns, holds title to, or is purchasing the real property where the manufactured home, mobilehome, or commercial modular is to be installed. A willful violation of those provisions is a crime. This bill would specify that a registered owner of a manufactured home or mobilehome in a mobilehome park that is converted or proposed to be converted to a resident-owned subdivision, stock cooperative, or condominium project, may submit written evidence of that owner's resident ownership in the mobilehome park in order to comply with this requirement. Because the bill would expand the scope of a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.