To provide a less costly and more efficient way for manufactured/mobile homeowners and park owners to resolve disputes. A dispute resolution program would be created through the Office of the Attorney General. The Attorney General would be authorized to accept complaints, conduct investigations, and make determinations.   Official Text and Analysis.

To replace the Department of Licensing (DOL) with The Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development as the entity charged with registering manufactured/mobile home communities. The per lot annual assessment fee is raised from $5 to $10, $5 of which may be passed on to tenants. The DOL will also charge each park an annual fee of $15 for first-time registrations and $9 for renewal registrations and will charge late fees. The late fee for an initial park registration is changed to a flat $250 instead of a per-day rate of $20. The Attorney General will produce and distribute educational materials to landlords, and to complainants and respondents upon request. The fine the Attorney General may impose on violators is changed from a maximum of $500 a day to a maximum of $250 a day.

To remove the $400,000 appropriation.

To remove language making violations of the dispute resolution program a per se violation of the Consumer Protection Act. (The dispute resolution program created by this act is intended to address disputes arising from violations of the Manufactured/Mobile Home Landlord-Tenant Act, which is subject to the Consumer Protection Act under current law).

To require registration notifications sent by DOL to manufactured/mobile home community landlords be delivered by certified mail.