Manufactured Housing Act of 1980: notice of transfer and release of liability.

Existing law, the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980, requires, with certain exceptions, manufactured homes, mobilehomes, commercial coaches, and floating homes sold or used within this state to be subject to annual registration with the Department of Housing and Community Development upon the appropriate forms approved by the department and payment of prescribed registration fees. Existing law prohibits transfer of title of a registered manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, truck camper, or floating home until the transferor has properly endorsed and delivered the certificate of title and delivery of the registration card to the transferee. Existing law makes it unlawful for any person to fail or neglect properly to endorse, date, and deliver the certificate of title and, when having possession, to fail to deliver the registration card to a transferee who is lawfully entitled to a transfer of registration. This bill would prohibit an owner, as defined, from being liable for taxes and fees specified in the Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 that accrue after the compliance date if the owner properly endorses and delivers the certificate of title to the transferee and delivers or mails to the Department of Housing and Community Development the completed notice of sale or transfer form developed by the department.