SUMMARY--Clarifies provisions governing connection and activation of electrical systems in manufactured homes, mobile homes and commercial coaches. (BDR 43-1274)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; clarifying provisions governing the connection and activation of electrical systems in manufactured homes, mobile homes and commercial coaches; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 NRS 489.251 is hereby amended to read as follows:
489.251 1. The administrator shall adopt regulations pertaining to:
(a) Safety standards for the installation, support and tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches which are designed to protect the health and safety of the occupants of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches against uplift, sliding, rotation and overturning, subject to the following [provisions:
(1) Safety] :
(1) The safety standards must be reasonably consistent with nationally recognized standards for the placement, support and tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches.
(2) The administrator may designate wind pressure zones in which the regulations for the tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches apply.
(b) The inspection of plumbing, heating, cooling, fuel burning and electrical systems connections to a manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach at the time of installation of the manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach, which [regulations] are designed to protect the health and safety of the occupants of manufactured homes, mobile homes and commercial coaches.
2. Unless the division determines otherwise, the plumbing, heating, cooling, fuel burning and electrical systems of a manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach [may] must not be connected or activated until a certificate of installation has been issued and a label of installation affixed to the manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach. For the purpose of this subsection, the connection of a power line to a meter that is not connected to a manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach does not constitute the connection or activation of the electrical system of the manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach.