A landlord may adopt rules or regulations, however described, concerning the tenant’s use and occupancy of the mobile home park. The rules and regulations shall be enforceable against the tenant only if they are written and if:

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Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 76-1494

  • Landlord: shall mean the mobile home park owner and any agent authorized to act on the owner's behalf in matters relating to tenancy in the park and shall include the manager of a mobile home park who fails to disclose as required by sections 76-1479 to 76-1482. See Nebraska Statutes 76-1462
  • Mobile home: shall mean a movable or portable dwelling constructed to be towed on its own chassis, connected to utilities, and designed with or without a permanent foundation for year-round living. See Nebraska Statutes 76-1463
  • Mobile home park: shall mean a parcel or contiguous parcels of land which have been so designated and improved that the parcel or parcels contain two or more mobile home lots available to the general public for the placement thereon of mobile homes for occupancy. See Nebraska Statutes 76-1464
  • Rental agreement: shall mean any agreement, written or implied by law, and any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to section 76-1494 which constitute the terms and conditions concerning the use and occupancy of a mobile home space. See Nebraska Statutes 76-1468
  • Tenant: shall mean an owner of a mobile home who leases or rents space in a mobile home park, but shall not include a person who rents or leases a mobile home. See Nebraska Statutes 76-1471

(1) Their purpose is to promote the convenience, safety, or welfare of the tenants in the mobile home park, preserve the landlord’s property from abuse, make a fair distribution of services and facilities held out for the tenants generally, or facilitate reasonable mobile home park management;

(2) They are reasonably related to the purpose for which adopted;

(3) They apply to all tenants in the mobile home park in a fair manner;

(4) They are sufficiently explicit in prohibition, direction, or limitation of the tenant’s conduct to fairly inform him or her of what must or must not be done to comply;

(5) They are not for the purpose of evading the obligations of the landlord; and

(6) The prospective tenant is given a copy of any existing rules and regulations before entering into the rental agreement.

Notice of all additions, changes, deletions, or amendments to the rules and regulations shall be given to all mobile home tenants sixty days before they become effective. The landlord may change, add, delete, or amend the rules and regulations without sixty days’ notice only with the written consent of at least one adult resident from a minimum of sixty percent of the households in the mobile home park. Adult resident shall mean a resident who has achieved the age of majority as defined in section 43-2101. Any rule or condition of occupancy which does not conform to the requirements of the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act shall be unenforceable. A rule or regulation adopted after the tenant enters into the rental agreement shall be enforceable against the tenant only if it does not conflict with or contradict the tenant’s rental agreement. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a landlord from adopting rules and regulations applicable to new tenants only and not to persons who are tenants prior to the effective date of the rules and regulations.