SB412 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Cam Ward

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Manufactured homes, rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants in manufactured home communities, specified, Alabama Manufactured Home Landlord-Tenant Act

Description

Under existing law, the Uniform Residential Landlord-Tenant law is limited to the rental of premises owned by a landlord. There are no specific provisions specifying the rights and responsibilities of tenants and landlords in circumstances in which the landlord rents real property to a tenant for the placement of a manufactured home owned by the tenant.

This bill would create the Alabama Manufactured Home Landlord-Tenant Act to specify the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants of manufactured home communities.

This bill would require landlords to disclose all fees, charges, assessments, and rules to a tenant prior to occupancy in a manufactured home community, would provide certain restrictions on the sale or removal of a manufactured home in a manufactured home community, and would place certain restrictions on the sale of a manufactured home community.

This bill would provide procedures for the eviction of a tenant and would provide for the disposal of a manufactured home and personal property abandoned by a tenant.

This bill would provide procedures for the adoption of mobile home community rules.

This bill would specify remedies for the breach of a lease agreement and would provide for the defense of warranty of habitability in certain actions against a tenant.

This bill would provide penalties for the late payment of rent and would provide for the disposition of security deposits paid by a tenant.

This bill would specify remedies for a landlord's breach of the implied warranty and covenant of habitability.

This bill would also specify the rights of a landlord and tenant upon the occurrence of a casualty loss in a manufactured home community.

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Subjects

Manufactured Homes