| 16 | | - | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) Not later than December 31, 2017, and annually thereafter, the Mobile Manufactured Home Advisory Council established pursuant to section 21-84a of the general statutes shall submit a report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to mobile homes and occupational licensing. Such report shall include recommendations as to whether the number of mobile manufactured home parks in the state and the membership of said council should be increased. |
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| 28 | + | Section 1. Section 21-84a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2017): |
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| 30 | + | (a) There is established, within the Department of Consumer Protection, a Mobile Manufactured Home Advisory Council composed of [fourteen] sixteen members as follows: One member of the Connecticut Real Estate Commission, one employee of the Department of Housing and one employee of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to be appointed by the Governor; an attorney-at-law specializing in mobile manufactured home matters to be appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; one town planner and one representative of the banking industry to be appointed by the Governor; three mobile manufactured home park owners, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate and one to be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; a representative of the mobile manufactured home industry to be appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives; three mobile manufactured home park tenants or representatives of such tenants, each from different geographic areas of the state, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and one to be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate; [and] a senior citizen, who is either a resident of a mobile manufactured home park or a representative of other senior citizens who reside in mobile manufactured home parks, to be appointed by the Governor; a representative of a nonprofit agency that funds the development of mobile manufactured homes and a representative of a social service agency to be appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate. The mobile manufactured home park owners and the representative of the mobile manufactured home industry shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Housing Association or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The mobile manufactured home park tenants or tenant representatives and the senior citizen shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Home Owners Alliance or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The Governor shall appoint a chairperson from among the members of the council. Members shall serve for a term coterminous with the term of the Governor or until their successors are appointed, whichever is later. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority for the position which has become vacant. Members of the council shall not be compensated for their services. Any council member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings or who fails to attend fifty per cent of all meetings held during any calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from office. |
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| 32 | + | (b) The advisory council shall: Monitor the implementation of statutes and regulations affecting mobile manufactured homes, promote mobile manufactured homes in the state, conduct a public education program to improve public perception and local acceptance of mobile manufactured homes and promote them as affordable, decent, safe and sanitary housing, and study additional issues related to mobile manufactured homes. |
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