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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981,
c. 152, §2, is amended to read:

 
2. Dealer. "Dealer" means any a person engaged in the retail
selling or offering for sale, offering for sale, brokering or
distribution of manufactured homes, primarily to a person who, in
good faith, purchases these homes for purposes other than resale
housing to a licensed dealer, developer dealer or consumer.

 
Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:

 
2-A.__Developer dealer.__"Developer dealer" means a person who
purchases state-certified manufactured housing from a licensed
manufacturer or dealer for placement on property owned by the
developer dealer and who offers the manufactured housing for sale
to the initial purchaser of the manufactured housing.__The
developer dealer may not install such manufactured housing but
may contract with the manufacturer or dealer for the installation
of such manufactured housing.

 
Sec. 3. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§6-A, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 642, §9, is
amended to read:

 
6-A. Installer. "Installer" means any a person, including
but not limited to a dealer or mechanic, who installs or sets up
manufactured housing for a buyer engaged in the installation or
servicing of state-certified manufactured housing.

 
Sec. 4. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§7, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981,
c. 152, §4, is amended to read:

 
7. Manufactured housing. "Manufactured housing" means a
structural unit or units designed for occupancy, to be used as a
dwelling or dwellings and constructed in a manufacturing facility
and then transported by the use of its own chassis or placement
on an independent chassis to a building site. The term includes
any type of building which that is constructed at a manufacturing
facility and then transported to a building site where it is
utilized for housing and that may be purchased or, sold, offered
for sale or brokered by a dealer licensee in the interim. For
purposes of this Act, 3 types of manufactured housing are
included. They are:

 
A. Those HUD-code homes, which are those units constructed after
June 15, 1976, which that the manufacturer certifies are
constructed in compliance with the HUD standard, meaning
structures, transportable in one or more sections, which that, in
the traveling mode, are 8 body feet or more in


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