(1) The division shall register all mobile home parks on an individual basis and renew this registration annually.
(2) The division shall send registration notifications and information packets to all known landlords of unregistered mobile home parks. These information packets must include:
Registration forms that satisfy all of the requirements of subsection (7) of this section;
Information about the different methods of registration;
Information about the single, statewide toll-free telephone number described in subsection (11) of this section;
Registration assessment information, including registration due dates and late fees,and the collections procedures, liens, and charging costs to home owners; and
A description of the protections afforded home owners under section 38-12-1105 (13).
The division shall annually send registration renewal notifications and informationpackets to all registered mobile home parks.
A landlord must file for registration or registration renewal by submitting to the division, either through the division's website, by mail, or in person, a registration or registration renewal form provided by the division and pay a registration fee as described in subsection (8) of this section.
A landlord must notify the division within thirty days of a change in the ownership ofthe landlord's mobile home park so that the division may update the mobile home park's registration information.
The division shall make available on the division's website electronic forms to register a mobile home park. These forms must be available in both English and Spanish and satisfy all of the requirements of subsection (7) of this section.
The registration forms provided by the division must require information necessaryto assist the division in identifying and locating a mobile home park and other information that may be useful to the state including, at a minimum:
The name and address of the landlord;
The name and address of the mobile home park;
The number of lots within the mobile home park;
The number of mobile homes within the mobile home park; and(e) The address of each mobile home within the mobile home park.
For the 2020 calendar year, the division shall charge each landlord a twenty-fourdollar registration fee for each mobile home independently owned on rented land within the landlord's mobile home park. Each year thereafter, the division shall establish by rule a fee that each landlord shall pay to the division as an annual registration fee for each mobile home independently owned on rented land within the landlord's mobile home park. A landlord may charge a home owner not more than half of the fee. The registration fee for each mobile home must be deposited into the fund. The division shall review the annual registration fee and, if necessary, adjust the annual registration fee through rule-making to ensure it continues to reasonably relate to the cost of administering the program.
Initial registrations of mobile home parks must be filed before February 1, 2020, andafter that date within three months of the availability of mobile home lots for rent within a new park. A landlord who was sent an initial registration form and who missed the deadline for registration is subject to a delinquency fee of up to five thousand dollars. Landlords who receive registration renewal notifications and do not renew their registration by the expiration date as assigned by the division are also subject to a delinquency fee of up to five thousand dollars.
Registration is effective on the date determined by the division, and the divisionmust issue a registration number to each registered mobile home park. The division must provide an expiration date, assigned by the division, to each registered mobile home park.
The division shall establish a system, including but not limited to a single, statewidetoll-free telephone number, for responding directly to inquiries about the registration process.
Source: L. 2019: Entire part added, (HB 19-1309), ch. 281, p. 2636, § 9, effective May 23.