(a) The commissioner may establish a monitoring inspection fee in an amount established by the secretary of housing and urban development (HUD). This monitoring inspection fee shall be an amount paid by each manufactured home manufacturer in that state.
(b) The monitoring inspection fee shall be paid by the manufacturer to the secretary of HUD or the secretary's agent who shall distribute the fees collected from all manufactured home manufacturers among the approved and conditionally-approved states based on the number of new manufactured homes whose homes' first location after leaving the manufacturing plant is on the premises of a distributor, dealer, or purchaser in that state, and the extent of participation of the state in the joint monitoring team program established under the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.
History of Section.
P.L. 1976, ch. 256, § 1; P.L. 1983, ch. 41, § 1.