Senate Bill sb1340

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1340

    By Senator Lynn





    7-916A-04                                           See HB 325

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to mobile home parks; amending

  3         s. 723.0612, F.S.; revising provisions for

  4         payment by the park owner to the Florida Mobile

  5         Home Relocation Corporation when the mobile

  6         home owner chooses to abandon the mobile home

  7         rather than relocate due to a change in use of

  8         the mobile home park; providing an effective

  9         date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (7) of section 723.0612, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         723.0612  Change in use; relocation expenses; payments

16  by park owner.--

17         (7)  In lieu of collecting payment from the Florida

18  Mobile Home Relocation Corporation as set forth in subsection

19  (1), a mobile home owner may abandon the mobile home in the

20  mobile home park and collect $1,375 for a single section and

21  $2,750 for a multisection from the corporation as long as the

22  mobile home owner delivers to the park owner the current title

23  to the mobile home duly endorsed by the owner of record and

24  valid releases of all liens shown on the title. If a mobile

25  home owner chooses this option, the park owner shall make

26  payment to the corporation in an amount equal to one-fourth of

27  the maximum allowable moving expenses. The mobile home owner's

28  application for funds under this subsection shall require the

29  submission of a document signed by the park owner stating that

30  the home has been abandoned under this subsection and that the

31  park owner agrees to make payment to the corporation in the

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1340
    7-916A-04                                           See HB 325




 1  amount provided to the home owner under this subsection

 2  section. However, in the event that the required documents are

 3  not submitted with the application, the corporation may

 4  consider the facts and circumstances surrounding the

 5  abandonment of the home to determine whether the mobile home

 6  owner is entitled to payment pursuant to this section.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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