Senate Bill S240

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires a manufactured home park owner or operator to give every manufactured home resident a copy of their resident's bill of rights

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S240 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง233, RP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S8368
2013-2014: S1059

2011-S240 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a manufactured home park owner or operator to give every manufactured home resident a copy of their resident's bill of rights; requires the conspicuous posting of such bill of rights; provides that the resident's bill of rights shall be created and disseminated by the division of housing and community renewal.

2011-S240 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S240 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   240

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
  Community Development

AN  ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring a manu-
  factured home park owner or operator to give every  manufactured  home
  resident a copy of their resident's bill of rights

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Section 233 of the real property law, as amended by  chap-
ter  566 of the laws of 1996, paragraph 6 of subdivision b as amended by
chapter 561 of the laws of 2008, paragraph 1 of subdivision f as amended
by chapter 48 of the laws of 1998, paragraph 5 of subdivision f as added
by chapter 103 of the laws of 1996, subdivision w as amended by  section
18 of part B of chapter 389 of the laws of 1997, paragraph 3-a of subdi-
vision  w  as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 2001, subdivision x as
added by chapter 561 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
  S 233. Manufactured home parks; duties, responsibilities. a.  Wherever
used in this section:
  1.  The term "manufactured home [tenant] RESIDENT" means one who rents
space in a manufactured home park from a manufactured home park owner or
operator for the purpose of parking his OR HER manufactured home or  one
who  rents  a manufactured home in a manufactured home park from a manu-
factured home park owner or operator.
  2. The term "manufactured home owner" means one who holds title  to  a
manufactured home.
  3.  The  term  "manufactured  home  park" means a contiguous parcel of
privately owned land which is used for the  accommodation  of  three  or
more manufactured homes occupied for year-round living.
  4.  The  term  "manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in
one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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