Assembly Bill No. 552–Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

(On Behalf of Department of Business and
Industry—Manufactured Housing Division)

 

March 26, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to manufactured buildings. (BDR 40‑561)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to manufactured buildings; revising the definitions of “factory-built housing” and “modular building” to exclude manufactured homes and commercial coaches; clarifying that such housing or buildings must be designed to be affixed to land or to a foundation, footing or existing building; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 461.080 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    461.080  “Factory-built housing” means a residential building,

1-3  dwelling unit or habitable room thereof which is [either wholly] :

1-4    1.  Wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an

1-5  offsite location to be wholly or partially assembled on site in accordance

1-6  with regulations adopted by the division pursuant to the provisions of NRS

1-7  461.170 [but] ; and

1-8    2.  Designed to be affixed to land or to a foundation, footing or

1-9  existing building.

1-10  The term does not include a manufactured home as defined in NRS

1-11  489.113, a mobile home[.] or a commercial coach as defined in NRS

1-12  489.062.

1-13    Sec. 2.  NRS 461.143 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-14    461.143  “Modular building” means an office, apartment, school, motel

1-15  or other building[,] that, regardless of whether it is a total building or a

1-16  room[, which is either] :

1-17    1.  Is wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an

1-18  offsite location to be wholly or partially assembled on site in accordance

2-1  with regulations adopted by the division pursuant to the provisions of NRS

2-2  461.170[, but] ; and

2-3    2.  Is designed to be affixed to land or to a foundation, footing or

2-4  existing building.

2-5  The term does not include a manufactured home as defined in NRS

2-6  489.113, a mobile home[.] or a commercial coach as defined in NRS

2-7  489.062.

2-8    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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