Senate Bill No. 326-Committee on Commerce and Labor
April 23, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
SUMMARY--Makes various changes concerning manufactured housing. (BDR 43-973)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; creating an advisory committee on installation standards; requiring the chief of the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry to adopt regulations establishing minimum safety standards for the installation, support and tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes and commercial coaches; providing that such regulations are the exclusive method of regulating such installation, support and tie down; 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 Chapter 489 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. The advisory committee on installation standards is hereby created. The committee shall advise the administrator concerning safety standards for the installation, support and tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes and commercial coaches.
2. The advisory committee is composed of the following members:
(a) The administrator or his designee;
(b) Two licensed dealers who are selected by the Nevada Manufactured Housing Association;
(c) Two licensed installers who are selected by the Nevada Manufactured Housing Association;
(d) The director of the Clark county department of building or his designee; and
(e) The county building official of the Washoe county building and safety division or his designee.
3. The members of the advisory committee shall serve without compensation, travel expenses or subsistence allowances except as they may be provided by the respective agencies and organizations of the members.
Sec. 2 NRS 489.251 is hereby amended to read as follows:
489.251 1. The administrator , with the advice of the advisory committee on installation standards created pursuant to section 1 of this act, shall adopt regulations establishing minimum safety standards pertaining to:
(a) [Safety standards for the] 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 occupants of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches against uplift, sliding, rotation and overturning [, subject to the following provisions:
(1) Safety standards must] and which:
(1) 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] May designate wind pressure zones in which the regulations for the tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes [or] and commercial coaches apply.
(3) May establish different standards for different areas of this state to reflect the weather conditions of the geographic location where the manufactured home, mobile home or commercial coach is located.
(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 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.
3. No other code, standard or regulation may be used to regulate the installation, support or tie down of manufactured homes, mobile homes or commercial coaches except for the minimum safety standards adopted by regulation pursuant to this section.
Sec. 3 The chief of the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry shall adopt the regulations required by NRS 489.251, as amended by section 2 of this act, on or before June 30, 1998.
Sec. 4 The regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 489.251 by the chief of the manufactured housing division of the department of business and industry before the effective date of this act are void on the date that the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 489.251, as amended by section 2 of this act, become effective. The legislative counsel shall remove the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 489.251 before the effective date of this act from the Nevada Administrative Code as soon as practicable after the effective date of the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 489.251, as amended by section 2 of this act.
Sec. 5 This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.