BILL NUMBER: AB 1474	INTRODUCED
	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.