Bill Text: MI HB4887 | 2023-2024 | 102nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Mobile homes: other; prohibition of unfair or deceptive practices in mobile home parks or seasonal mobile home parks; expand. Amends sec. 28 of 1987 PA 96 (MCL 125.2328). TIE BAR WITH: HB 4886'23, HB 4888'23, HB 4889'23
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2023-07-19 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 07/18/2023 [HB4887 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2023-HB4887-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL NO. 4887
A bill to amend 1987 PA 96, entitled
"The mobile home commission act,"
by amending section 28 (MCL 125.2328), as amended by 1993 PA 241.
the people of the state of michigan enact:
Sec. 28. (1) An owner or operator of a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park shall not engage, or permit an employee or agent to engage, in any of the following unfair or deceptive methods, acts, or practices:
(a) Directly or indirectly charging or collecting from a person an entrance a fee to enter the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park.
(b) Requiring a person to directly or indirectly purchase a mobile home from another person as a condition of entrance to, or the lease or rental of a space within, a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park. space.
(c) Directly or indirectly charging or collecting from a person a refundable or nonrefundable exit fee to exit the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park.
(d) Requiring or coercing a person to purchase, rent, or lease goods or services from another person as a condition of any of the following:
(i) Entering into a the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park. or lease.
(ii) Selling a mobile home through the park owner or operator, of the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park, or his or her the agent or designee of the owner of the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park upon leaving a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park.
(iii) Renting space in a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park.
(e) Directly or indirectly charging or collecting from a person money or other thing of value for electric, fuel, or water service without the use of that service by a resident or tenant being first accurately and consistently measured, unless that service is included in the a rental charge as an incident of tenancy.
(f) Conspiring, combining, agreeing, aiding, or abetting in the employment of a method, act, or practice that violates this act.
(g) Renting or leasing a mobile home or site in a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park to a person that owns the mobile home located in that mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park without offering that person the opportunity to enter into a written lease or agreement that complies with section 4a of the truth in renting act, 1978 PA 454, MCL 554.634a.
(h) Subject to section 28a, prohibiting a resident from selling his or her the resident's mobile home on-site for a price determined by that resident, if the purchaser qualifies for tenancy and the mobile home meets the conditions of written park rules or regulations. This subdivision does not apply to seasonal mobile home parks.
(i) Subject to reasonable mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park rules governing the location, size, and style of exterior television antenna, antennas, prohibiting a person from installing or maintaining an exterior television antenna on a mobile home within located in the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park unless the mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park provides park residents, without charge, a central television antenna for UHF-VHF reception.
(2) A tenant of a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park may bring an action on his or her the tenant's own behalf for a violation of this section.
(3) If the commission has reason to suspect that the owner of a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park is engaged in conduct that violates existing water utility tariffs or qualifies the owner of a mobile home park or seasonal mobile home park for regulation as a water utility, the commission shall promptly send a written report of the alleged violation to the Michigan public service commission.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 102nd Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4886 (request no. 03258'23).
(b) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4888 (request no. 03260'23).
(c) Senate Bill No.____ or House Bill No. 4889 (request no. 03261'23).
