HB465 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

David Colston

Democrat

Co-Sponsors

Kurt WallaceBerry ForteDarrio Melton

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Manufactured homes, mobile home park, required to accommodate safe room for inclement weather, penalties,

Description

Existing law does not require owners of manufactured or mobile home parks to have a specific tornado safe space.

This bill would require each owner of a manufactured or mobile home park to include a Federal Emergency Management Administration 361 approved safe room to accommodate the residents of the park during inclement weather.

This bill would provide criminal penalties for failure to comply.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Mobile Homes