Relocation of a mobile home - collection of taxes.

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(1) Any person who intends to remove his or her mobile home from a county or from one location in a county to a new location in the same county shall notify the treasurer of this fact, and all property taxes levied or assessed on such mobile home shall thereupon become due and payable if the mobile home is to be removed from the county. Upon the request of the treasurer, the assessor shall certify to such person the valuation for assessment of the mobile home for the current year.

  1. Repealed.

  2. For property tax years commencing on or after January 1, 1999:

  1. If a mobile home located in a county on the assessment date is to be removed fromthe county to another county in this state before the next following assessment date, all property taxes levied or assessed on such mobile home shall, upon the mobile home owner providing notice of such removal to the treasurer pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, become due and payable for the current property tax year without proration.

  2. If a mobile home located in a county on the assessment date is to be removed fromthis state before the next following assessment date, all property taxes levied or assessed on such mobile home shall, upon the mobile home owner providing notice of such removal to the treasurer pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, become due and payable. The value to be placed on the property by the assessor pursuant to this paragraph (b) shall be such proportion of its value for the full calendar year as the number of calendar months in such year the mobile home was located in the original location bears to twelve; but, if the mobile home is to be removed from its original location before the sixteenth day of any calendar month, such month shall be disregarded, and, if the mobile home is to be removed from its original location on or after the sixteenth day of any calendar month, such month shall be considered as a full calendar month.

(4) If the levy for the current year has not then been fixed and made, the levy for the previous year shall be used by the treasurer to determine the amount of taxes due pursuant to this section. At such time as the levy for the current year has been fixed and made, the amount of any taxes collected on the property in excess of the amount correctly due and payable shall be refunded by the treasurer to the owner of the property forthwith; but, in all cases where the amount of taxes so collected is less than the amount correctly due and payable, the amount uncollected shall be considered an erroneous assessment and shall be reported with other erroneous assessments in the manner prescribed by law.

Source: L. 77: Entire part RC&RE, p. 1741, § 3, effective January 1, 1978. L. 91: Entire section amended, p. 1697, § 7, effective July 1. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 440, § 2, effective August 5.

Editor's note: Subsection (2)(b) provided for the repeal of subsection (2), effective January 1, 2000. (See L. 98, p. 440.)


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