Connecticut General Statutes 21-67a – Filing of documents re mobile manufactured homes and mobile manufactured home parks
(a) List of homes and owners. Not later than October 1, 1986, the licensee of any mobile manufactured home park licensed under this chapter shall file with the town clerk, for purposes of recording in the land records of the municipality in which the park is located, a list containing all mobile manufactured homes in the park on the date of such filing, the name and address of the owner of each mobile manufactured home as appearing on its record and the lot number or location of each mobile manufactured home in the park. Each list shall contain a certification that the licensee is duly licensed by the state of Connecticut and said certification shall contain the park’s license number. Each park licensee shall pay to the town clerk for recording the list, five dollars per page plus fifty cents for each owner’s name to be indexed in excess of four names per page. The Department of Consumer Protection shall ensure that each licensee is in compliance with this section.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 21-67a
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Department: means the Department of Consumer Protection. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Licensee: means any person licensed to operate and maintain a mobile manufactured home park under the provisions of this chapter. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- 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
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- owner: means a licensee or permittee or any person who owns, operates or maintains a mobile manufactured home park. 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
- Person: means an individual, corporation, limited liability company, the state or any political subdivision thereof, agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, and any other legal or commercial entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- Rental agreement: means all agreements, written or oral, and valid rules and regulations adopted under subsection (d) of section 21-70, embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a dwelling unit or premises. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64
- Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC
(b) Evidence of ownership. Any person owning a mobile manufactured home on or after October 1, 1986, shall file with the town clerk of the municipality in which the mobile manufactured home is located a certificate of title, bill of sale or other document evidencing the person’s ownership of the mobile manufactured home. On or after October 1, 1986, any person holding a security interest in any such mobile manufactured home may file the security interest for recording in the land records of the municipality in which the mobile manufactured home is located.
(c) Conveyance requirements. On or after October 1, 1986, conveyances of title of mobile manufactured homes in mobile manufactured home parks licensed under this chapter or located on single-family lots owned by a person other than the homeowner shall comply with the following requirements: (1) The document conveying the title shall contain (A) a description of the mobile manufactured home, setting forth the name of the manufacturer, the model number, the serial number and all encumbrances on the home, (B) the name and address of the mobile manufactured home park in which the home is located, including lot number, if any, within the park, or for those homes not situated in mobile manufactured home parks, the name and address of the individual owning the lot on which the home is located and the address of the lot, and (C) the amount due and owing, if any, for property taxes to the municipality in which the mobile manufactured home is located; (2) the document conveying title shall be filed in the town clerk’s office of the municipality in which the home is located for recording on the land records; and (3) any taxes imposed as provided in subsection (b) of section 12-412c which have become due shall have been paid in full. No purchaser of a mobile manufactured home shall be entitled to assume the tenancy or rental agreement of the seller in a mobile manufactured home park until such purchaser has complied with subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection.
(d) Document transferring title. Any document transferring title to a mobile manufactured home located in a mobile manufactured home park or on a single-family lot, when duly executed and recorded in accordance with subsection (c) of this section, shall have the force and effect of the equivalent statutory form deed as provided for in section 47-36c.
(e) Document creating encumbrance. On or after October 1, 1986, any public documents purporting to create an encumbrance upon a mobile manufactured home, including, but not limited to, a mortgage, a security interest, a chattel mortgage or an attachment, shall be recorded in the town clerk’s office of the municipality in which the home is located. The filing of any document on said land records evidencing the encumbrance and used to perfect the encumbrance under Connecticut’s Uniform Commercial Code, shall be deemed compliance with subsection (b) of this section. Failure to comply with this section shall not in any way affect any security rights of the secured party in the mobile manufactured home, except that any document creating an encumbrance upon a mobile manufactured home after October 1, 1993, shall not be perfected under Connecticut’s Uniform Commercial Code until the document has been recorded in the town clerk’s office of the municipality in which the home was located.
(f) Removal statement. Any owner of a mobile manufactured home located in a mobile manufactured home park or on a single-family lot who desires to remove such home from the park or lot in or on which it has been situated shall file for recording with the town clerk of said municipality a certificate substantially in the following form:
MOBILE MANUFACTURED HOME REMOVAL STATEMENT
…. of …., owner of (description of mobile manufactured housing being removed, containing name of manufacturer, model and serial number) which has the following encumbrances, …. and which mobile manufactured home has been situated at (name of park, if any, street address, town/city) hereby intends to remove said mobile manufactured home from (address) …. to the following location: ….
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Signed this …. day of…., 20… |
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Witnessed by: |
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(Acknowledgment) |
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…., holder of the aforementioned security instrument/mortgage deed/lien/ attachment, hereby consents to the removal of the aforesaid home, subject to the condition that the aforesaid security instrument/mortgage/lien/ attachment shall remain in full force and effect thereon. …., Tax Collector of the town of …. certifies that all property taxes due and payable with respect to the aforesaid mobile manufactured home have been paid in full.
Signed this …. day of …., 20…
(g) Time period for filing removal statement. The removal statement required under subsection (f) of this section shall be filed with the town clerk of the municipality not later than seventy-two hours prior to the removal of such home from the park or lot or the conveyance of such home to any purchaser. Any person who fails to file such removal statement within the time period prescribed by this subsection shall be subject to a fine of five hundred dollars. No owner of a mobile manufactured home located in a mobile manufactured home park or on a single-family lot who desires to remove such home from the park or lot in or on which such home has been situated or to convey such home to any purchaser shall remove such home from such park or lot without filing a valid removal statement pursuant to this subsection.