| | 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| | Sec. 4. 10 MRSA §9002, sub-§7, as repealed and replaced by PL 1981, | c. 152, §4, is amended to read: |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 | width and 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on | site, are 320 or more square feet, and which are built on a | permanent chassis and designed to be used as dwellings, with | or without permanent foundations, when connected to the | required utilities, including the plumbing, heating, air- | conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; | except that such term shall include any structure which that | meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size | requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer | voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary | of the United States Department of Housing and Urban | Development and complies with the standards established | under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and | Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 United States Code 5401, et | seq; |
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| B. Those State-certified modular homes, which are those | units which that the manufacturer certifies are constructed | in compliance with the state's State's Manufactured Housing | Act and regulations, meaning structures, transportable in | one or more sections, which that are not constructed on a | permanent chassis and are designed to be used as dwellings | on foundations when connected to required utilities, | including the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning or | electrical systems contained therein; |
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