BILL NUMBER: AB 682 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Williams
FEBRUARY 25, 2015
An act to add Section 18029.1 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public utilities.
manufactured housing and mobilehomes, and making an appropriation
therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 682, as amended, Williams. Electric
Mobilehome park: electric and gas service: master-meter
customers.
Existing law authorizes the transfer of the ownership and
operational responsibility for the provision of electric or gas
service from an owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or
manufactured housing community that provides electric or gas service
to residents to the electric or gas corporation providing service in
the area in which the mobilehome park or manufactured housing
community is located. Existing law requires the Public Utilities
Commission to adopt a standard form of agreement for transfer of gas
and electric distribution facilities in these parks and communities
that is required to be the basis for expedited approval of the
transfers.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to address implementation issues regarding commission
decision 14-03-021 and the voluntary conversion of electric and
natural gas master-metered service at mobilehome parks to direct
service by corporations providing electric or natural gas or both.
The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the Department of
Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining
to manufactured housing, mobilehomes, park trailers, commercial
coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, and recreational
vehicles. The act makes it unlawful for a person to alter or convert,
or cause to be altered or converted, the plumbing, heat-producing,
or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a
manufactured home, mobilehome, or multifamily manufactured home that
bears a department insignia of approval or federal label when these
structures are used, occupied, sold, or offered for sale within the
state, unless its performance is altered or converted in compliance
with specified provisions of the act and applicable regulations
adopted by the department.
Existing law authorizes the department to establish a schedule of
fees to pay the costs related to the administration and enforcement
of the act that are deposited in the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home
Revolving Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department
for carrying out the provisions of the act.
This bill would authorize a person, without filing an application
for an alteration or conversion with the department, to alter or
convert, or cause to be altered or converted, the structural, fire
safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and
installations or equipment of a manufactured home or mobilehome in
order to extend a gas line or electrical feeder line, or both, from a
utility-owned service line to the electrical subpanel or gas inlet
of the manufactured home or mobilehome only for the purpose of a
natural gas or electric service utility upgrade, or both, within a
mobilehome park that is subject to or consistent with a specified
decision of the Public Utilities Commission.
The bill would also authorize a defect in the manufactured home or
mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical systems or
installations or equipment to be repaired or replaced without filing
an application for an alteration or conversion with the department if
specified conditions are met. By increasing the duties of the
department for which the department may charge fees that are
deposited in a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make
an appropriation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no yes
. Fiscal committee: no yes .
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 18029.1 is added to the
Health and Safety Code , to read:
18029.1. (a) Notwithstanding Section 18029, a person may, without
filing an application for an alteration or conversion required by
this chapter, alter or convert, or cause to be altered or converted,
the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical
systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home or
mobilehome in order to extend a gas line or electrical feeder line,
or both, from a utility-owned service line to the electrical subpanel
or gas inlet of the manufactured home or mobilehome only for the
purpose of a natural gas or electric service utility upgrade, or
both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or consistent with
the requirements of Public Utilities Commission Decision 14-03-021
(March 13, 2014).
(b) Notwithstanding Section 18029, if, at the time that natural
gas or electric service is connected to a manufactured home or
mobilehome as part of a natural gas or electric service utility
upgrade, or both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or
consistent with the requirements of Public Utilities Commission
Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014), a defect in the manufactured
home or mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical
systems or installations or equipment is found, the heat-producing or
electrical systems or installations or equipment may be repaired or
replaced without filing an application for an alteration or
conversion required by this chapter if the repair or replacement is
necessary to correct the defect, is made promptly, and is approved by
the department.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would address implementation issues
regarding Public Utilities Commission decision 14-03-021 and the
voluntary conversion of electric and natural gas master-metered
service at mobilehome parks to direct service by corporations
providing electric or natural gas or both.