| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§2, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981, | c. 152, §2, is amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§2-A is enacted to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 3. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§6-A, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 642, §9, is | amended to read: |
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| | 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. |
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| | Sec. 4. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§7, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981, | c. 152, §4, is amended to read: |
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| | 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: |
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| 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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