Ohio Code 4781.19 – Issuance and replacement of licenses
(A) At the time the division of real estate grants the application of any person for a license as a manufactured housing dealer, manufactured housing broker, or manufactured housing salesperson, the division shall issue to the person a license that includes the name and business and mailing address of the person licensed. If a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker has more than one place of business in a county, the dealer or broker shall make application, in such form as the division prescribes, for a certified copy of the license issued to the dealer or broker for each place of business in the county.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4781.19
- Business: includes any activities engaged in by any person for the object of gain, benefit, or advantage either direct or indirect. See Ohio Code 4781.01
- Manufactured housing: means manufactured homes and mobile homes. See Ohio Code 4781.01
- Manufactured housing broker: means any person acting as a selling agent on behalf of an owner of a manufactured home or mobile home that is subject to taxation under section 4503. See Ohio Code 4781.01
- Manufactured housing dealer: means any person engaged in the business of selling at retail, displaying, offering for sale, or dealing in manufactured homes or mobile homes. See Ohio Code 4781.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Salesperson: means any individual employed by a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker to sell, display, and offer for sale, or deal in manufactured homes or mobile homes for a commission, compensation, or other valuable consideration, but does not mean any public officer performing official duties. See Ohio Code 4781.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B) The division of real estate may require each applicant for a manufactured housing dealer’s license, manufactured housing broker’s license, and manufactured housing salesperson’s license issued under this chapter to pay an additional fee, which shall be used by the division to pay the costs of obtaining a record of any arrests and convictions of the applicant from the bureau of identification and investigation. The amount of the fee shall be equal to that paid by the division to obtain such record.
(C) In the event of the loss, mutilation, or destruction of a manufactured housing dealer’s license, manufactured housing broker’s license, or manufactured housing salesperson’s license, any licensee may make application to the division of real estate, in the form prescribed by the division, for a duplicate copy thereof and pay a fee established by the division of real estate.
(D) All manufactured housing dealers’ licenses, all manufactured housing brokers’ licenses, and all manufactured housing salespersons’ licenses issued or renewed shall expire biennially on a day within the two-year cycle that is prescribed by the division of real estate, unless sooner suspended or revoked. Before the first day after the day prescribed by the division in the year that the license expires, each licensed manufactured housing dealer, manufactured housing broker, and manufactured housing salesperson, in the year in which the license will expire, shall file an application, in such form as the division of real estate prescribes, for the renewal of such license. The fee required by this section for the original license shall accompany the application.
(E) Each manufactured housing dealer and manufactured housing broker shall keep the license or a certified copy thereof and a current list of the dealer’s or the broker’s licensed salespersons, showing the names, addresses, and serial numbers of their licenses, posted in a conspicuous place in each place of business. Each salesperson shall carry the salesperson’s license or a certified copy thereof and shall exhibit such license or copy upon demand to any inspector of the division of real estate, state highway patrol trooper, police officer, or person with whom the salesperson seeks to transact business as a manufactured housing salesperson.