§ 233. Manufactured home parks; duties, responsibilities. a. Wherever\nused in this section:\n 1. The term "manufactured home tenant" means one who rents space in a\nmanufactured home park from a manufactured home park owner or operator\nfor the purpose of parking his manufactured home or one who rents a\nmanufactured home in a manufactured home park from a manufactured home\npark owner or operator.\n 2. The term "manufactured home owner" means one who holds title to a\nmanufactured home.\n 3. The term "manufactured home park" means a contiguous parcel of\nprivately owned land which is used for the accommodation of three or\nmore manufactured homes occupied for year-round living.\n 4. The term "manufactured home" means a structure, transportable in\none or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or\nmore in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on\nsite, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which is built on\na permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or\nwithout a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities,\nand includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical\nsystems contained therein; except that such term shall include a "mobile\nhome" as defined in paragraph five, and shall include a structure which\nmeets all the requirements of this subdivision except the size\nrequirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily\nfiles a certification required by the secretary of housing and urban\ndevelopment.\n 5. The term "mobile home" means a moveable or portable unit,\nmanufactured prior to January first, nineteen hundred seventy-six,\ndesigned and constructed to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of\nframe and wheels, connected to utilities, and designed and constructed\nwithout a permanent foundation for year-round living. A unit may contain\nparts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and\nexpanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well as two or\nmore separately towable components designed to be joined into one\nintegral unit capable of being again separated into the components for\nrepeated towing. "Mobile home" shall mean units designed to be used\nexclusively for residential purposes, excluding travel trailers.\n 6. The term "rent-to-own contract" shall mean any agreement between a\nmanufactured home park owner or operator and a manufactured home renter\nwhich provides that after a specified term or other contingency the\nmanufactured home renter will take ownership of the rented home.\n 7. The term "rent-to-own payment" shall mean any payment or payments\nmade by a manufactured home renter pursuant to a rent-to-own contract\nwhich are in addition to rental payments for the rented site and the\nrented home.\n b. A manufactured home park owner or operator may not evict a\nmanufactured home tenant other than for the following reasons:\n 2. The manufactured home tenant has defaulted in the payment of rent,\npursuant to the agreement under which the premises are held, and a\ndemand of the rent with at least thirty days notice in writing has been\nserved upon him as prescribed in section seven hundred thirty-five of\nthe real property actions and proceedings law. Upon the acceptance of\nsuch delinquent rent together with allowable costs, an action instituted\nfor nonpayment of rent shall be terminated. Any person succeeding to the\nmanufactured home park owner or operator's interest in the premises may\nproceed under this subdivision for rent due his predecessor in interest\nif he has a right thereto.\n 3. The premises, or any part thereof, are used or occupied as a\nbawdy-house, or house or place of assignation for lewd purposes or for\npurposes of prostitution, or for any illegal trade or business.\n 4. The manufactured home tenant is in violation of some federal, state\nor local law or ordinance which may be deemed detrimental to the safety\nand welf
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