(a) A mobile manufactured home park resident who owns a mobile manufactured home and is required to remove the home from the park because of a change in use of the land on which said mobile manufactured home is located shall be entitled to receive from the mobile manufactured home park owner (1) relocation expenses to a mobile manufactured home park satisfactory to the resident within one hundred miles of the existing park site up to a maximum of (A) seven thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of § 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of § 21-80 expires before October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (B) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, ten thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of § 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of § 21-80 expires on or after October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (2) in the event a satisfactory site is not available onto which the mobile manufactured home may be relocated, the sum of (A) seven thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of § 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of § 21-80 expires before October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (B) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, ten thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of § 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of § 21-80 expires on or after October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999.

Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 21-70a

  • 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
  • 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
  • Resident: means a person who owns, or rents and occupies, a mobile manufactured home in a mobile manufactured home park. See Connecticut General Statutes 21-64

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in any case in which a mobile manufactured home park containing two hundred or more units in which a majority of residents have been given written notice, prior to June 23, 1999, pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of § 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of § 21-80, regardless of whether one or more of such notices or the service of such notices is subsequently deemed invalid or ineffective, the amount of the relocation or compensatory payments required to be paid to such resident under the provisions of this section shall not exceed seven thousand dollars, regardless of whether a subsequent valid notice or notices are properly served subsequent to June 23, 1999, and such subsequent notice or notices expire on or after October 1, 2000.

(c) The owner of a mobile manufactured home park, who intends to close the park, shall notify, in writing, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, the Commissioner of Housing and the chief elected official in the town in which the park is located at least ninety days prior to refusing to renew any leases because of the impending closing, or on any earlier date the owner gives any notice of the closing of the park as may be required by the general statutes.