(1) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services shall, by administrative rule, adopt and enforce safety and construction standards for installation, support and tiedown of manufactured dwellings on a lot. These safety standards shall be reasonably consistent with nationally recognized standards for placement, support and tiedown of manufactured dwellings, and shall be designed to protect the health and safety of occupants of manufactured dwellings against uplift, sliding, rotation and overturning of manufactured dwellings.

(2) The director shall designate wind pressure zones in which the rules for tiedown of manufactured dwellings shall apply.

(3) Except as provided in ORS § 446.395, an installer is not required to be licensed by the director to connect utilities from utility terminations provided on a lot to manufactured dwellings. [1975 c.546 § 3; 1989 c.648 § 23; 1991 c.226 § 7; 1993 c.744 § 55]