Connecticut General Statutes 21-84a – Mobile Manufactured Home Advisory Council
(a) There is established, within the Department of Consumer Protection, a Mobile Manufactured Home Advisory Council composed of fourteen members as follows: One member of the Connecticut Real Estate Commission, one employee of the Department of Housing and one employee of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to be appointed by the Governor; an attorney-at-law specializing in mobile manufactured home matters to be appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; one town planner and one representative of the banking industry to be appointed by the Governor; three mobile manufactured home park owners, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate and one to be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; a representative of the mobile manufactured home industry to be appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives; three mobile manufactured home park tenants or representatives of such tenants, each from different geographic areas of the state, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and one to be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate and a senior citizen, who is either a resident of a mobile manufactured home park or a representative of other senior citizens who reside in mobile manufactured home parks, to be appointed by the Governor. The mobile manufactured home park owners and the representative of the mobile manufactured home industry shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Housing Association or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The mobile manufactured home park tenants or tenant representatives and the senior citizen shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Home Owners Alliance or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The Governor shall appoint a chairperson from among the members of the council. Members shall serve for a term coterminous with the term of the Governor or until their successors are appointed, whichever is later. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority for the position which has become vacant. Members of the council shall not be compensated for their services. Any council member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings or who fails to attend fifty per cent of all meetings held during any calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from office.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 21-84a
- Attorney-at-law: A person who is legally qualified and licensed to practice law, and to represent and act for clients in legal proceedings.
- Department: means the Department of Consumer Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- Majority leader: see Floor Leaders
- Minority leader: See Floor Leaders
- Mobile manufactured home: means a detached residential unit having three-dimensional components which are intrinsically mobile with or without a wheeled chassis or a detached residential unit built on or after June 15, 1976, in accordance with federal manufactured home construction and safety standards, and, in either case, containing sleeping accommodations, a flush toilet, tub or shower bath, kitchen facilities and plumbing and electrical connections for attachment to outside systems, and designed for long-term occupancy and to be placed on rigid supports at the site where it is to be occupied as a residence, complete and ready for occupancy, except for minor and incidental unpacking and assembly operations and connection to utilities systems. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- park: means a plot of ground upon which two or more mobile manufactured homes, occupied for residential purposes are located. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- President pro tempore: A constitutionally recognized officer of the Senate who presides over the chamber in the absence of the Vice President. The President Pro Tempore (or, "president for a time") is elected by the Senate and is, by custom, the Senator of the majority party with the longest record of continuous service.
- Resident: means a person who owns, or rents and occupies, a mobile manufactured home in a mobile manufactured home park. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
(b) The advisory council shall: Monitor the implementation of statutes and regulations affecting mobile manufactured homes, promote mobile manufactured homes in the state, conduct a public education program to improve public perception and local acceptance of mobile manufactured homes and promote them as affordable, decent, safe and sanitary housing, and study additional issues related to mobile manufactured homes.