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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senators Dudley and Hargrett moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 12. Effective July 1, 1998, paragraph (d) is
18 added to subsection (2) of section 20.18, Florida Statutes,
19 and subsection (7) is added to said section, to read:
20 20.18 Department of Community Affairs.--There is
21 created a Department of Community Affairs.
22 (2) The following units of the Department of Community
23 Affairs are established:
24 (d) Bureau of Factory-built Housing.
25 (7) The Department of Community Affairs shall be the
26 agency responsible for ensuring that there is adequate
27 affordable housing in this state through the use of
28 factory-built homes, that the federal code on mobile homes is
29 strictly observed by manufacturers, and that the state code
30 for manufactured buildings is an efficient method for
31 providing manufactured buildings to residents of this state.
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1 The department shall also be the agency responsible for the
2 installation of mobile homes and manufactured buildings to
3 such an extent that residents of this state are as safe as
4 possible.
5 Section 13. Effective July 1, 1998:
6 (1) All statutory powers, duties, functions, records,
7 personnel, property, and unexpended balances of
8 appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the Bureau of
9 Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction of the
10 Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles relating to
11 regulation and administration of mobile homes, and all
12 existing authority and actions of the bureau, including, but
13 not limited to, all pending and completed actions on orders
14 and rules, all enforcement matters, and delegations,
15 interagency agreements, and contracts with federal, state,
16 regional, and local governments and private entities relating
17 to regulation and administration of mobile homes, are hereby
18 transferred to the Bureau of Factory-built Housing of the
19 Department of Community Affairs.
20 (2) The Department of Community Affairs and the
21 Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles shall have the
22 authority to enter into interagency agreements with each other
23 concerning any matter affected by the transfer of the Bureau
24 of Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction to the
25 Department of Community Affairs to promote the efficient and
26 effective operation of both departments.
27 Section 14. (1) Effective July 1, 1998, the portion
28 of the Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Protection Trust
29 Fund created under s. 320.781, Florida Statutes, relating to
30 mobile homes is transferred to the Operating Trust Fund of the
31 Department of Community Affairs to be administered and managed
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1 by the Bureau of Factory-built Housing of the Department of
2 Community Affairs pursuant to s. 553.433, Florida Statutes.
3 (2) Effective July 1, 1998, that portion of the
4 Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund, created under s. 318.39,
5 Florida Statutes, and into which fees and penalties relating
6 to mobile home regulation, manufacture, licensure, and
7 installation, are deposited, and all fees and penalties that
8 are deposited into the General Revenue Fund, are transferred
9 to the Operating Trust Fund of the Department of Community
10 Affairs to be administered and managed by the Bureau of
11 Factory-built Housing.
12 Section 15. Effective July 1, 1998, all statutory
13 powers, duties, and functions of the Department of Highway
14 Safety and Motor Vehicles relating to the regulation or
15 licensing of mobile home manufacturers, dealers or installers,
16 are transferred to the Bureau of Factory-built Housing of the
17 Department of Community Affairs.
18 Section 16. Subsection (2) of section 320.8235,
19 Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 320.8325 Mobile homes and park trailers; tie-down
21 requirements; minimum installation standards; injunctions;
22 penalty.--
23 (2) The Department of Community Affairs department
24 shall promulgate rules and regulations setting forth minimum
25 standards for the manufacture and or installation of
26 manufactured housing installation systems, composed of
27 anchors, buckles, straps, stabilizer plates, and piers or
28 other requirements mandated by a manufacturer's installation
29 manual. anchors, tie-downs, over-the-roof ties, or other
30 reliable methods of securing mobile homes or park trailers
31 when over-the-roof ties are not suitable due to factors such
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1 as unreasonable cost, design of the mobile home or park
2 trailer, or potential damage to the mobile home or park
3 trailer. Such systems devices required under this section,
4 when properly installed, shall insure a manufactured home
5 remains secured to the ground when subjected to winds equal to
6 or less than their HUD code design criteria and shall cause
7 the mobile home or park trailer to resist wind overturning and
8 sliding. In promulgating such Such rules and regulations, the
9 Department of Community Affairs may make such discriminations
10 regarding mobile home or park trailer tie-down requirements
11 shall be reasonably related to the as are reasonable when
12 factors such as age, and windzone of the manufactured housing.
13 location, and practicality of tying down a mobile home or park
14 trailer are considered. The Department of Community Affairs
15 shall also develop standards for installation and anchoring
16 systems for park trailers. Fees and civil penalties collected
17 by the Department of Community Affairs pursuant to s. 320.8325
18 shall be deposited into a trust fund for the use by the
19 Department of Community Affairs for the testing of
20 manufactured housing installation systems and their individual
21 components to insure that such products being delivered to
22 consumers in this state meet the wind design criteria adopted
23 by the Department of Community Affairs.
24 Section 17. When mobile homeowners in a mobile home
25 park obtain evaluations of the wind resistance of their mobile
26 homes and make improvements in accordance thereto using funds
27 from the General Appropriations Act pursuant to s. 627.0629,
28 the applicable local, county, or municipal government may
29 charge only one building permit or any other applicable fee or
30 change, not to exceed the usual permit fee or charge that
31 would have applied to a single mobile homeowner, for the
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1 entire mobile home park in which such evaluations are being
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8 And the title is amended as follows:
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12 amending s. 20.18, F.S.; creating the Bureau of
13 Factory-built Housing in the Department of
14 Community Affairs; providing powers and duties
15 of the bureau; transferring certain powers,
16 duties, and assets, of the Bureau of Mobile
17 Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction of
18 the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
19 Vehicles to the Bureau of Factory-built
20 Housing; authorizing interagency agreements;
21 transferring certain portions of the Mobile
22 Home and Recreational Vehicle Protection Trust
23 Fund to the Operating Trust Fund of the
24 Department of Community Affairs; transferring
25 certain portions of the Highway Safety
26 Operating Trust Fund and certain other fees and
27 penalties to the Operating Trust Fund of the
28 Department of Community Affairs; transferring
29 certain statutory powers, duties, and functions
30 of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
31 Vehicles to the Bureau of Factory-built Housing
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1 of the Department of Community Affairs;
2 amending s. 320.8325, F.S.; providing for the
3 adoption of rules relating to manufactured
4 housing installation systems, and for the
5 development of standards for park trailers;
6 limiting the power of certain local governments
7 to charge certain permit fees relating to
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