AB720: Bill Text

AB720,17,20 30.44 (1) (title) Structures; manufactured homes and mobile homes.

AB720, s. 15 Section 15. 30.44 (1) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,17,23 30.44 (1) (b) 2. Placement or replacement of a manufactured home or mobile home.

AB720, s. 16 Section 16. 30.44 (1) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,2 30.44 (1) (b) 3. Modification of a structure or a, manufactured home or mobile home.

AB720, s. 17 Section 17. 30.44 (1) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,5 30.44 (1) (b) 5. Repair of a manufactured home or mobile home unless exempt under par. (g).

AB720, s. 18 Section 18. 30.44 (1) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,8 30.44 (1) (c) 1. Sufficient vegetation exists on the land to allow the structure or, manufactured home or mobile home to be visually inconspicuous.

AB720, s. 19 Section 19. 30.44 (1) (c) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,12 30.44 (1) (c) 2. The structure or, manufactured home or mobile home shall not be higher than the surrounding vegetation during the time when the leaves are on the deciduous trees.

AB720, s. 20 Section 20. 30.44 (1) (c) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,16 30.44 (1) (c) 5. The site of the structure or, manufactured home or mobile home shall be at least 100 feet behind the top of the bluff or 100 feet below the top of the bluff.

AB720, s. 21 Section 21. 30.44 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,19 30.44 (1) (e) The height of the structure or, manufactured home or mobile home shall not result in its being visible from the river.

AB720, s. 22 Section 22. 30.44 (1) (g) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,18,23 30.44 (1) (g) (intro.) Paragraphs (b) (intro.) to (f) (intro.) do not apply to the repair of a damaged structure or, manufactured home or mobile home or to the reconstruction of a destroyed structure if all of the following apply:

AB720, s. 23 Section 23. 30.44 (1) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,19,3 30.44 (1) (g) 2. The repaired manufactured home or mobile home or the repaired or reconstructed structure will not be larger in size or more visible from the river than it was immediately before it was damaged or destroyed.

AB720, s. 24 Section 24. 32.19 (4) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,19,14 32.19 (4) (a) Owner-occupants. (intro.) In addition to amounts otherwise authorized by this subchapter, the condemnor shall make a payment, not to exceed $25,000, to any displaced person who is displaced from a dwelling actually owned and occupied, or from a mobile home or manufactured home site actually owned or occupied, by the displaced person for not less than 180 days prior to the initiation of negotiations for the acquisition of the property. For the purposes of this paragraph, a nonprofit corporation organized under ch. 181 may, if otherwise eligible, be considered a displaced owner. A displaced owner may elect to receive the payment under par. (b) 1. in lieu of the payment under this paragraph. Such payment includes only the following:

AB720, s. 25 Section 25. 32.19 (4) (a) 1m. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,20,9 32.19 (4) (a) 1m. In the case of a person displaced from a mobile home or manufactured home site, the amount, if any, which when added to the trade-in or salvage value of the mobile home or manufactured home equals the reasonable cost of a comparable mobile home or manufactured home which is decent, safe and sanitary, plus an amount equal to 48 times the difference between the monthly rent being paid for the site on which the mobile home or manufactured home is located and the monthly rent for a comparable mobile home or manufactured home site or the amount necessary to enable the displaced person to make a down payment on the purchase of a comparable mobile home or manufactured home site, provided that the owner of a mobile home or manufactured home shall be eligible for such payments only if: a) the mobile home or manufactured home is not considered to be a decent, safe and sanitary dwelling unit; or b) the structural condition of the mobile home or manufactured home is such that it cannot be moved without substantial damage or unreasonable cost; or c) there are no adequate or available replacement sites to which the mobile home or manufactured home can be moved. If a comparable mobile home or manufactured home dwelling is not available, the replacement housing payment shall be calculated on the basis of the next highest type of mobile home or manufactured home or a conventional dwelling that is available and meets the requirements and standards for a comparable dwelling.

AB720, s. 26 Section 26. 45.356 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,20,17 45.356 (2) The department may lend a veteran not more than $15,000 for the purchase of a mobile home, manufactured home, recreational vehicle, business or business property, the repair of or addition to his or her home or business property, the construction of a garage, the education of the veteran or his or her spouse or children, the payment of medical or funeral expenses or the consolidation of debt. The department may prescribe loan conditions, but the term of the loan may not exceed 10 years.

AB720, s. 27 Section 27. 45.71 (11) of the statutes is created to read:

AB720,20,20 45.71 (11) "Manufactured home" means a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2), which:

AB720,20,21 (a) Is used as the veteran's principal place of residence; and

AB720,20,22 (b) Meets or exceeds the statutory size under s. 348.07 (2).

AB720, s. 28 Section 28. 45.71 (12) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,20,25 45.71 (12) (intro.) "Mobile home" means a mobile home, as defined under s. 340.01 (29) 101.91 (1), which:

AB720, s. 29 Section 29. 45.71 (14m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB720,21,2 45.71 (14m) "Recreational vehicle" has the meaning given in s. 218.10 (8m).

AB720, s. 30 Section 30. 45.76 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,21,8 45.76 (1) (a) 1. A mobile or manufactured home or recreational vehicle or real property on which a mobile or manufactured home or recreational vehicle is to be situated, but only if the veteran has available and applies on the total cost of the property, an amount equivalent to at least 15% of the total cost. This 15% requirement does not apply to a person who qualifies under s. 45.745.

AB720, s. 31 Section 31. 45.79 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,21,13 45.79 (3) (a) 2. No loan may be made under this section for the purchase or improvement of a mobile or manufactured home or a recreational vehicle unless such loan is secured by both a first mortgage on real estate and a primary chattel security agreement covering the mobile or manufactured home or recreational vehicle itself.

AB720, s. 32 Section 32. 49.47 (4) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,21,17 49.47 (4) (b) 1. A home and the land used and operated in connection therewith, or in lieu thereof a manufactured home or mobile home, if the home, manufactured home or mobile home is used as the person's or his or her family's place of abode.

AB720, s. 33 Section 33. 59.97 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,21,20 59.97 (4) (d) Trailer camps, or tourist camps and motels or both and manufactured and mobile home parks.

AB720, s. 34 Section 34. 66.058 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,21,22 66.058 (title) Mobile Manufactured and mobile home parks.

AB720, s. 35 Section 35. 66.058 (1) (a) of the statutes is repealed.

AB720, s. 36 Section 36. 66.058 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,2 66.058 (1) (b) "Licensee" means any person licensed to operate and maintain a manufactured and mobile home park under this section.

AB720, s. 37 Section 37. 66.058 (1) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,5 66.058 (1) (c) "Licensing authority" means the city, town or village wherein a manufactured and mobile home park is located.

AB720, s. 38 Section 38. 66.058 (1) (cg) of the statutes is created to read:

AB720,22,7 66.058 (1) (cg) "Manufactured home" has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (2).

AB720, s. 39 Section 39. 66.058 (1) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,13 66.058 (1) (d) "Mobile home" is that which is, or was as originally constructed, designed to be transported by any motor vehicle upon a public highway and designed, equipped and used primarily for sleeping, eating and living quarters, or is intended to be so used; and includes any additions, attachments, annexes, foundations and appurtenances has the meaning given in s. 101.91 (1).

AB720, s. 40 Section 40. 66.058 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,18 66.058 (1) (e) "Mobile "Manufactured and mobile home park" means any plot or plots of ground upon which 2 3 or more units mobile homes or manufactured homes, occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes, are located, regardless of whether or not a charge is made for such accommodation.

AB720, s. 41 Section 41. 66.058 (1) (f) of the statutes is repealed.

AB720, s. 42 Section 42. 66.058 (1) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,21 66.058 (1) (g) "Park" means manufactured and mobile home park.

AB720, s. 43 Section 43. 66.058 (1) (i) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,22,24 66.058 (1) (i) "Space" means a plot of ground within a mobile home park, designed for the accommodation of one mobile home unit.

AB720, s. 44 Section 44. 66.058 (1) (j) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,23,1 66.058 (1) (j) "Unit" means a mobile home unit or a manufactured home unit.

AB720, s. 45 Section 45. 66.058 (2) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,23,12 66.058 (2) (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain or operate within the limits of any city, town or village, any mobile home park unless such person shall first obtain from the city, town or village a license therefor. All such parks in existence on August 9, 1953, shall within 90 days thereafter, obtain such license, and in all other respects comply fully with the requirements of this section except that the licensing authority shall upon application of a park operator, waive such requirements that require prohibitive reconstruction costs if such waiver does not affect sanitation requirements of the city, town or village or create or permit to continue any hazard to the welfare and health of the community and the occupants of the park.

AB720, s. 46 Section 46. 66.058 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,24,5 66.058 (2) (b) In order to protect and promote the public health, morals and welfare and to equitably defray the cost of municipal and educational services required by persons and families using or occupying trailers, mobile homes, trailer camps or mobile home parks for living, dwelling or sleeping purposes, each city council, village board and town board may establish and enforce by ordinance reasonable standards and regulations for every trailer and trailer camp and every mobile home and mobile home park;, may require an annual license fee to operate the same a park and may levy and collect special assessments to defray the cost of municipal and educational services furnished to such trailer and trailer camp, or mobile home and mobile home a park. They may limit the number of units, trailers or mobile homes that may be parked or kept located in any one camp or park, and limit the number of licenses for trailer camps or parks in any common school district, if the mobile housing development of a park would cause the school costs to increase above the state average or if an exceedingly difficult or impossible situation exists with regard to providing adequate and proper sewage disposal in the particular area. The power conferred on cities, villages and towns by this section is in addition to all other grants and shall be deemed limited only by the express language of this section.

AB720, s. 47 Section 47. 66.058 (2) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,24,12 66.058 (2) (c) In any town in which the town board adopts an ordinance regulating trailers mobile homes and manufactured homes under the provisions of this section and has also adopted and approved a county zoning ordinance under the provisions of s. 59.97, the provisions of the ordinance which is most restrictive shall apply with respect to the establishment and operation of any trailer camp park in said town.

AB720, s. 48 Section 48. 66.058 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,25,3 66.058 (2) (d) Any license granted under the provisions of this section shall be subject to revocation or suspension for cause by the common council, village board or town board that issued the license upon complaint filed with the clerk of the city, village or town signed by any law enforcement officer, local health officer, as defined in s. 250.01 (5), or building inspector after a public hearing upon the complaint, provided that the holder of the license shall be given 10 days' notice in writing of the hearing, and the holder of the license shall be entitled to appear and be heard as to why the license shall not be revoked. Any holder of a license that is revoked or suspended by the governing body of any city, village or town may within 20 days of the date of the revocation or suspension appeal therefrom to the circuit court of the county in which the trailer camp or mobile home park is located by filing a written notice of appeal with the city, village or town clerk, together with a bond executed to the city, village or town, in the sum of $500 with 2 sureties or a bonding company approved by the said clerk, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of the appeal and the payment of costs adjudged against the license holder.

AB720, s. 49 Section 49. 66.058 (3) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,25,6 66.058 (3) (title) License and monthly mobile home Monthly permit fee; review.

AB720, s. 50 Section 50. 66.058 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,25,13 66.058 (3) (a) The licensing authority shall exact from the licensee an annual license fee of not less than $25 and not more than $100 for each 50 spaces or fraction thereof within each mobile home park within its limits, except that where the park lies in more than one municipality the amount of the license fee shall be such fraction thereof as the number of spaces in the park in the municipality bears to the entire number of spaces in the park.

AB720, s. 51 Section 51. 66.058 (3) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,27,15 66.058 (3) (c) (intro.) In addition to the license fee provided in pars. (a) and (b), each local taxing authority shall collect from each mobile home unit occupying space or lots in a park in the city, town or village, except from mobile homes and manufactured homes that constitute improvements to real property under s. 70.043 (1) and from recreational mobile homes and camping trailers and travel trailers as defined in s. 70.111 (19), a monthly parking permit fee computed as follows: On January 1, the assessor shall determine the total fair market value of each mobile home unit in the taxation district subject to the monthly parking permit fee. The fair market value, minus the tax-exempt household furnishings thus established, shall be equated to the general level of assessment for the prior year on other real and personal property in the district. The value of each mobile home unit thus determined shall be multiplied by the general property gross tax rate, less any credit rate for the property tax relief credit, established on the preceding year's assessment of general property. The total annual parking permit fee thus computed shall be divided by 12 and shall represent the monthly mobile home parking permit fee. The fee shall be applicable to mobile homes units moving into the tax district any time during the year. The park operator shall furnish information to the tax district clerk and the assessor on mobile homes units added to the park within 5 days after their arrival, on forms prescribed by the department of revenue. As soon as the assessor receives the notice of an addition of a mobile home unit to a park, the assessor shall determine its fair market value and notify the clerk of that determination. The clerk shall equate the fair market value established by the assessor and shall apply the appropriate tax rate, divide the annual parking permit fee thus determined by 12 and notify the mobile home unit owner of the monthly fee to be collected from the mobile home owner. A municipality, by ordinance, may require the mobile home park operator to collect the monthly parking permit fee from the mobile home unit owner. Liability for payment of the fee shall begin on the first day of the next succeeding month and shall remain on the mobile home unit only for such months as the mobile home unit remains in the tax district. A new fee and a new valuation shall be established each January and shall continue for that calendar year. The valuation established shall be subject to review as are other values established under ch. 70. If the board of review reduces a valuation on which previous monthly payments have been made the tax district shall refund past excess fee payments. The monthly parking permit fee shall be paid by the mobile home unit owner to the local taxing authority on or before the 10th of the month following the month for which such parking permit fee is due. No such fee shall be imposed for any space occupied by a mobile home accompanied by an automobile for an accumulating period not to exceed 60 days in any 12 months if the occupants of the mobile home are tourists or vacationists. Exemption certificates in duplicate shall be accepted by the treasurer of the licensing authority from qualified tourists or vacationists in lieu of monthly mobile home parking permit fees. The credit under s. 79.10 (9) (bm), as it applies to the principal dwelling on a parcel of taxable property of an owner shall apply to the estimated fair market value of a mobile home unit that is the principal dwelling of the owner. The owner of the mobile home unit shall file a claim for the credit with the treasurer of the municipality in which the property is located no later than January 31. To obtain the credit under s. 79.10 (9) (bm), the owner shall attest on the claim that the mobile home unit is the owner's principal dwelling, as defined in s. 79.10 (1) (f). The treasurer shall reduce the owner's parking monthly permit fee by the amount of any allowable credit. The treasurer shall furnish notice of all claims for credits filed under this paragraph to the department of revenue as provided under s. 79.10 (1m).

AB720, s. 52 Section 52. 66.058 (3) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,27,19 66.058 (3) (c) 1. The licensee of a park shall be liable for the monthly parking permit fee for any mobile home unit occupying space therein as well as the owner and occupant thereof.

AB720, s. 53 Section 53. 66.058 (3) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,27,22 66.058 (3) (d) This section shall not apply where a mobile home park is owned and operated by any county under the provisions of s. 59.07 (13) (b).

AB720, s. 54 Section 54. 66.058 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,28,7 66.058 (3) (e) If a mobile home unit is permitted by local ordinance to be located outside of a licensed park, the monthly parking permit fee shall be paid by the owner of the land on which it stands, and the owner of such land shall be required to comply with the reporting requirements of par. (c). The owner of the land may collect the fee from the owner of the mobile home unit and, on or before January 10 and on or before July 10, shall transmit to the taxation district all fees owed for the 6 months ending on the last day of the month preceding the month when the transmission is required. Nothing contained in this subsection shall prohibit the regulation thereof by local ordinance.

AB720, s. 55 Section 55. 66.058 (3m) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,28,12 66.058 (3m) Park operator reimbursement. A park operator who is required by municipal ordinance to collect the monthly parking permit fee from the mobile home unit owner may deduct, for administrative expenses, 2% of the monthly fees collected.

AB720, s. 56 Section 56. 66.058 (4) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,28,17 66.058 (4) Application for license. (intro.) Original application for mobile home a park license shall be filed with the clerk of the licensing authority. Applications shall be in writing, signed by the applicant and shall contain the following:

AB720, s. 57 Section 57. 66.058 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,28,19 66.058 (4) (b) The location and legal description of the mobile home park.

AB720, s. 58 Section 58. 66.058 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB720,29,3 66.058 (5) Plans and specifications to be filed. Accompanying, and to be filed with an original application for a mobile home park, shall be plans and specifications which shall be in compliance with all applicable city, town or village ordinances and provisions of the department of health and social services. The clerk after approval of the application by the governing body and upon completion of the work according to the plans shall issue the license. A mobile housing development harboring only nondependent mobile homes as defined in sub. (1) (f) shall not be required to provide a service building.