By Raymond H.B. No. 3552
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the regulation of manufactured housing; providing
1-3 penalties.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsections (b), (c), and (d), Section 6B, Texas
1-6 Manufactured Housing Standards Act (Article 5221f, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
1-8 (b) A manufactured home constructed on or after September 1,
1-9 1997, [the effective date of this section] must meet the Wind Zone
1-10 II standards adopted by the United States Department of Housing and
1-11 Urban Development in order to be installed in a Wind Zone II
1-12 county.
1-13 (c) All manufactured homes constructed prior to September 1,
1-14 1997, [the effective date of this section] may be installed in Wind
1-15 Zone I or Wind Zone II without restriction.
1-16 (d) A consumer purchasing a manufactured home constructed on
1-17 or after September 1, 1997, [the effective date of this section] to
1-18 Wind Zone I standards must be given a notice by the selling
1-19 retailer that:
1-20 (1) the home was not designed nor constructed to
1-21 withstand hurricane force winds which may occur in Wind Zone II or
1-22 III areas; and
1-23 (2) the home is not permitted to be installed in Wind
2-1 Zone II counties in Texas, and there may be restrictions in other
2-2 states prohibiting installation in Wind Zone II or III areas.
2-3 SECTION 2. Subsection (a) of Section 17, Texas Manufactured
2-4 Housing Standards Act (Article 5221f, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-5 Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
2-6 (a) A person, individual, or director, officer, or agent of
2-7 a corporation who knowingly and willfully violates a provision of
2-8 this Act or any rule, regulation, or administrative order of the
2-9 department in a manner that threatens the health or safety of any
2-10 purchaser or consumer commits a Class A misdemeanor and on
2-11 conviction shall be fined not more than $4,000 [$2,000] or shall be
2-12 confined in the county jail not longer than one year or both.
2-13 SECTION 3. Subsection (o) of Section 19, Texas Manufactured
2-14 Housing Standards Act (Article 5221f, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-15 Statutes), are amended to read as follows:
2-16 (o) (1) The department shall furnish each county tax
2-17 assessor-collector in this state a monthly [quarterly] report that
2-18 lists the following information:
2-19 (A) the name of the owner of each manufactured
2-20 home installed in the county during the preceding calendar quarter;
2-21 [,]
2-22 (B) the name of the manufacturer; [,]
2-23 (C) the model designation; [,]
2-24 (D) the identification number of each section or
2-25 module; [,] and,
2-26 (E) the address or location where the
3-1 manufactured home is installed.
3-2 (2) The report shall include the same information for
3-3 all manufactured homes previously installed in the county for which
3-4 a transfer of ownership was recorded by the issuance of a document
3-5 of title during the month [quarter].
3-6 (3) The director shall furnish a copy of the report to
3-7 the chief appraiser of the appraisal district established for the
3-8 county in which the manufactured home is installed.
3-9 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
3-10 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the crowded
3-11 condition of the calendars in both houses create an emergency and
3-12 an imperative public necessity that the constitutional rule
3-13 requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house be
3-14 suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.