FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 492
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR STOLL.
Read 1st time February 25, 1999, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2128.01I
AN ACT
To repeal sections 700.015, 700.025, 700.045 and 700.050, RSMo 1994, relating to manufactured homes, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to the same subject.
Section A. Sections 700.015, 700.025, 700.045 and 700.050, RSMo 1994, are repealed and four new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 700.015, 700.025, 700.045 and 700.050, to read as follows:
700.015. 1. No person shall rent, lease, sell or offer for sale any new manufactured home manufactured after January 1, 1974, or any new recreational vehicle within this state, unless such new manufactured home or new recreational vehicle complies with the code and bears the proper seal.
2. No person shall manufacture in this state any manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or modular unit for rent, lease or sale within the state which does not bear a seal evidencing compliance with the code.
3. Unless otherwise required by federal law or regulations, nothing in sections 700.010 to 700.115 shall apply to a manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or modular unit being built expressly for export and sold for use solely outside this state.
4. No person shall offer for rent, lease or sale a modular unit manufactured after January 1, 1974, unless such modular unit complies with the code and bears a seal issued by the commission evidencing compliance with the code.
700.025. No person shall alter or cause to be altered any new manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or new or used modular unit to which a seal has been affixed, if such alteration or conversion causes the manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or modular unit to be in violation of the code.
700.045. It shall be a misdemeanor:
(1) For a manufacturer or dealer to manufacture, rent, lease, sell or offer to sell any manufactured home, recreational vehicle or modular unit after January 1, 1977, unless there is in effect a registration with the commission;
(2) To rent, lease, sell or offer to sell any new manufactured home or new or used modular unit manufactured after January 1, 1974, or any new recreational vehicle which does not bear a seal as required by sections 700.010 to 700.115;
(3) To affix a seal or cause a seal to be affixed to any manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or modular unit which does not comply with the code;
(4) To alter a manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or modular unit in a manner prohibited by the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115;
(5) To fail to correct within a reasonable time not to exceed ninety days after being ordered to do so in writing by an authorized representative of the commission a code violation in a new manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or new or used modular unit owned, manufactured or sold [within a reasonable time not to exceed ninety days after being ordered to do so in writing by an authorized representative of the commission], if the same is manufactured after January 1, 1974; or
(6) To interfere with, obstruct, or hinder any authorized representative of the commission in the performance of his duties.
700.050. The issuance of seals to any manufacturer in violation of the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115 may be suspended by the commission and no further seals shall be issued to any such manufacturer except upon proof satisfactory to the commission that the conditions which brought about the violation have been remedied. Seals remain the property of the state and may be removed by the commission from any new manufactured home, recreational vehicle, or new or used modular unit which is in violation of the code.