California Assembly Bill AB1474 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 1474INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Cook FEBRUARY 27, 2009 An act to amend Section 18025 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to mobilehomes. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1474, as introduced, Cook. Mobilehomes: standards. Existing law prohibits, unless otherwise specified, a person from selling, offering for sale, renting, or leasing within the state, any manufactured home, mobilehome, commercial coach, or special purpose commercial coach manufactured after September 1, 1958, containing structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and equipment unless the systems and equipment meet certain requirements of the Department of Housing and Community Development. This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision of law. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 18025 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 18025. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), it is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale, rent, or lease  within   in  this state, any manufactured home or any mobilehome, commercial coach, or special purpose commercial coach manufactured after September 1, 1958, containing structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and equipment unless the systems and equipment meet the requirements of the department for those systems and that equipment and the installation of those systems and that equipment. The department may adopt rules and regulations that are reasonably consistent with recognized and accepted principles for structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, and electrical systems and equipment and installations, respectively, to protect the health and safety of the people of this state from dangers inherent in the use of substandard and unsafe structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, and electrical systems, equipment and installations. (b) All manufactured homes and mobilehomes manufactured on or after June 15, 1976, shall comply with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 5401 et seq.). (c) The sale of used manufactured homes and mobilehomes by an agent licensed pursuant to this part shall be subject to Section 18046.